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Satellites reveal melting of rocks under volcanic zone, deep in Earth's mantle

  • Written by: Simon Lamb, Associate Professor in Geophysics, Victoria University of Wellington
imageMount Ngauruhoe, in the foreground, and Mount Ruapehu are two of the active volcanoes in the Taupo volcanic zone.Guillaume Piolle/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-ND

Volcanoes erupt when magma rises through cracks in the Earth’s crust, but the exact processes that lead to the melting of rocks in the Earth’s mantle below are difficult to study.

In...

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Brisbane's Cross River Rail will feed the centre at the expense of people in the suburbs

  • Written by: Brian Feeney, Adjunct Fellow, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Queensland
imageThe Cross River Rail project offers a solution to a narrowly conceived problem while ignoring the bigger picture of metropolitan planning. shutterstock

The Queensland government is pushing for the Cross River Rail project, a second railway connection through Brisbane’s CBD.

In the state’s ShapingSEQ regional plan, advocates of the...

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The great movie scenes: Steven Spielberg's Jaws

  • Written by: Bruce Isaacs, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Sydney
imageThe mechanical shark used in the 1975 film Jaws. Tom Simpson/ flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

What makes a film a classic? In this column, film scholar Bruce Isaacs looks at a single sequence from a classic film and analyses its brilliance.


When Jaws was released in 1975 it was a tremendous commercial success. Based on the novel by Peter Benchley, the movie...

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Viewpoints: should euthanasia be available for people with existential suffering?

  • Written by: Xavier Symons, Research Associate, University of Notre Dame Australia
imageExistential suffering refers to an individual experiencing a lack of meaning or sense of purposelessness in life.Zack Minor/Unsplash, CC BY

Euthanasia debates often focus on people experiencing unbearable physiological or psychological suffering. But research suggests “loss of autonomy” is the primary reason for requesting euthanasia,...

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  3. Leaky Liberals spill the beans again
  4. Axing the Walkley for international reporting: another nail in the coffin
  5. Suburbs 'swamped' by Asians and Muslims? The data show a different story
  6. Three charts on: the changing face of Australian union members
  7. The West's hyperbole on North Korea will only fuel Kim Jong-un's propaganda
  8. Doctors and nurses can't always tell if someone's drunk or on drugs, and misdiagnosis can be dangerous
  9. Spider-Man: Homecoming spins a web of fact and fantasy
  10. Curious Kids: why do some people find some foods yummy but others find the same foods yucky?
  11. What the rise of daily fantasy sports will mean for problem gambling
  12. City planning suffers growth pains of Australia's population boom
  13. How to tell when the housing market is slowing
  14. Read, listen, understand: why non-Indigenous Australians should read First Nations writing
  15. Jukurrpa-kurlu Yapa-kurlangu-kurlu
  16. Surgery to make intersex children 'normal' should be banned
  17. Land clearing isn't just about trees – it's an animal welfare issue too
  18. SA Galaxy: 50-50 tie. Labor, Greens gain in Essential
  19. Government behavioural economics 'nudge unit' needs a shove in a new direction
  20. Do we claim 'bullying' too often?
  21. Doing away with the annual performance review? More feedback isn't necessarily better
  22. No, nanoparticles in baby formula will not harm your baby
  23. 'Cyber revolution' in Australian Defence Force demands rethink of staff, training and policy
  24. New maps reveal cancer levels across Australia, and across the social strata
  25. How to reduce sexism in screenplays
  26. Bloom and boom: how babies and migrants have contributed to Australia's population growth
  27. Higher education fees are rising – so is it still worthwhile enrolling?
  28. Gig economy businesses like Uber and Airtasker need to evolve to survive
  29. Want a better camera? Just copy bees and their extra light-sensing eyes
  30. Essays on health: microbes aren't the enemy, they're a big part of who we are
  31. Community sector offers a solid platform for fair social housing
  32. Liberal party reform becomes the next proxy battle in Abbott versus Turnbull
  33. The media dangerously misuses the word 'trolling'
  34. Why exploitation and corruption continue to dog Australia's VET sector
  35. Politics podcast: Anna Krien on the climate wars
  36. Who's paying for lunch? Here's exactly how drug companies wine and dine our doctors
  37. Are private patients in public hospitals a problem?
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  40. How an obscure Austrian philosopher saw through our empty rhetoric about 'sustainability'
  41. What we can learn about fighting inequality from Australia's convict past
  42. Long ignored, adolescent family violence needs our attention
  43. On poetry and pain
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  47. Canada offers Australia a blueprint for protecting and motivating corporate whistleblowers
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