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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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