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Research Check: can a new drug really protect redheads from cancer?

  • Written by: Katie Lee, Study coordinator and research assistant, The University of Queensland
imageThe study looked at helping redheads to tan and protect them from the sun. But the redheads were mice, not humans.from www.shutterstock.com

A recently published US study on an experimental drug that leads to tanning without sun exposure has generated a host of headlines around the world.

Some went with what the drug means for redheads, with the...

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We need to be cautious when assuming CCTV will prevent family violence

  • Written by: Caitlin Overington, PhD Candidate in Criminology, University of Melbourne
imageA reliance on security infrastructure to resolve embedded social problems may be misguided.shutterstock

This year’s Victorian state budget included a A$1.9 billion package to tackle family violence. Part of this was a statewide Personal Safety Initiative, which expands a trial of installing technology – such as CCTV, personal alarms and...

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We need our country; our country needs us

  • Written by: John Woinarski, Professor (conservation biology), Charles Darwin University
imageThe sun rises above Uluru in outback Australia.David Gray/Reuters

Increasingly, our leaders talk of Australian values and presume that these arose organically, as though through some moral forge. An alternative view is that our national character and sense of identity have been shaped mostly by the land itself: we are a nation of individualistic,...

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Price hikes in Ether and Bitcoin aren't the signs of a bubble

  • Written by: Jason Potts, Professor of Economics, RMIT University

When there is a rapid growth in any of the crypto-currencies and assets such as Bitcoin, Ether, Zcash and others, many will call it out as a bubble. Indeed, on a relatively short time scale it clearly looks like a bubble.

The entire crypto-currency market capitalisation currently stands at around US$100 billion; it was US$60 billion one month ago....

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