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A new look at a lost dinosaur dig in the Australian outback

  • Written by: Stephen Poropat, Postdoctoral Researcher (Palaeontology), Swinburne University of Technology
imageDr Tim Holland (seated right) assisting volunteers in the excavation of the ribs of _Austrosaurus mckillopi_ in 2015.Stephen Poropat, Author provided

Fossil bones discovered almost 80 years apart in a remote area of Queensland are helping to reveal the shape of a dinosaur that roamed Earth more than 100 million years ago.

We still have only a few...

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The healing power of hip hop

  • Written by: Alexander Crooke, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Music Therapy, University of Melbourne
imageJ Cole at Etihad Stadium in 2014. Cole (aka 'Therapist') runs non-profit organisation Dreamville Foundation, and houses single mothers rent-free in his childhood homePhoto supplied by Michelle Grace Hunder

Last year, New York’s then police commissioner Willam Bratton was quick to blame rap music and the culture around it for a fatal backstage...

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The legend of Poūwa: ancient myths of New Zealand's black swan confirmed by fossil DNA

  • Written by: Nic Rawlence, Lecturer in Ancient DNA, University of Otago
imageThe skeleton of the extinct poūwa.Jean-Claude Stahl / Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, CC BY-ND

A tall, bulky and probably near-flightless black swan once roamed New Zealand. But it was hunted to extinction not long after people arrived during the late 13th century, and then replaced by its Australian cousin.

Our research, based on...

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How Dr G.Yunupiŋu took Yolŋu culture to the world

  • Written by: Aaron Corn, Professor of Music and Director, Centre for Aboriginal Studies in Music (CASM) and National Centre for Aboriginal Language and Music Studies (NCALMS), University of Adelaide
imageDr Yunupiŋu's music is steeped in the culture of his people, the Yolŋu of northeast Arnhem Land.Dan Himbrechts/AAP

The music of Dr G. Yunupiŋu — who has died at the age of 46 from complications arising from a childhood illness — is steeped in the culture of his people, the Yolŋu of northeast Arnhem Land, and...

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