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Explainer: how much landfill does Australia have?

  • Written by: Bernadette McCabe, Associate Professor and Principal Scientist, University of Southern Queensland
imageA compactor at work on Australian landfill.via Wikimedia commons

Since Australia stopped incinerating rubbish in the middle of the 20th century, most of our solid waste has ended up in landfill. Some 20 million tonnes of garbage each year makes its way to hundreds of landfill sites, mostly clustered around our capital cities. This represents about 4...

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What causes Alzheimer’s disease? What we know, don’t know and suspect

  • Written by: Yen Ying Lim, Research Fellow, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
imageA hallmark of Alzheimer's disease is gradual deterioration of memory.Roman Kraft/Unsplash

This is a long read. Enjoy!


Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia, which is an umbrella term used to describe general loss of memory, thinking skills and other day-to-day functions (such as cooking, paying bills, cleaning and even...

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Making sense of Russiagate: what do Russians think?

  • Written by: Filip Slaveski, Research Fellow, Alfred Deakin Research Institute, Deakin University

If you’re struggling to make sense of “Russiagate” and the Trump-Putin connection as the James Comey affair quickly unravels in Washington, you’re not the only one. Many Russians are also scratching their heads, but perhaps for different reasons.

Usually, revelations of Western intervention in Russian domestic politics is...

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A new discovery of gravitational waves has black holes in a spin

  • Written by: Matthew Bailes, ARC Laureate Fellow, Swinburne University of Technology., Swinburne University of Technology
imageA simulation of the latest binary black hole merger detected by LIGO. Blue indicates weak fields and yellow indicates strong fields.Numerical-relativistic Simulation: S Ossokine, A Buonanno (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics) and the Simulating eXtreme Spacetime project Scientific Visualization: T Dietrich (Max Planck Institute for...

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  1. Flat white urbanism: there must be better ways to foster a vibrant street life
  2. Worshipping at the church of Ford: how modern brand devotion connects people online
  3. Vital Signs: have we finally reached 'peak' house prices?
  4. Friday essay: power, perils and rites of passage – the history of the female tattoo
  5. Explainer: how does funding work in the Catholic school system?
  6. Grattan on Friday: Now it's the ASIO chief who is the target of the vocal right
  7. In defence of grammar pedantry
  8. How our research is helping clean up coal-mining pollution in a World Heritage-listed river
  9. Politics podcast: Matt Canavan on Adani
  10. Explainer: how proceeds-of-crime law works in Australia
  11. Indonesian Muslim women engage with feminism
  12. Speaking with: Tony Kevin on his return to Moscow and the new Cold War with Russia
  13. Explainer: what is chemotherapy and how does it work?
  14. Not all students with a disability need funding
  15. Taking Asia’s temperature at Shangri-La
  16. Family break-up raises homelessness risk, and critical period is longer for boys
  17. After-hours GP home visits strain the budget (and don't help emergency departments)
  18. Three charts on: Australia's changing drug and alcohol habits
  19. The world's coral reefs are in trouble, but don't give up on them yet
  20. Global stocktake shows the 43 greenhouse gases driving global warming
  21. The best way to support writers is to feed them new ideas
  22. Regional universities have a pivotal role to play in Australia's City Deals
  23. Fancy government financing could still cost the taxpayer
  24. From botnet to malware: a guide to decoding cybersecurity buzzwords
  25. Liberal MP confronts Turnbull over aged care decisions
  26. Companies should take charge of the potential toxins in common products
  27. Juno mission unveils Jupiter’s complex interior, weather and magnetism
  28. After Uluru, we must focus on a treaty ahead of constitutional recognition
  29. No rest over Easter as the barrage of news continues on Twitter
  30. It's happening again ... our love affair with TV reboots
  31. Twitter's plan to help young people not get too overwhelmed by bad news doesn't go far enough
  32. Research shows if you improve the air quality at work, you improve productivity
  33. Curious Kids: Why do adults think video games are bad?
  34. Sydneysiders blame foreign investors for high housing prices – survey
  35. The government should pick towns, not industries, to fund
  36. Christianity does not play a significant role in Australian politics, but cultural conservatism does
  37. The science of taste, or why you choose fries over broccoli
  38. How we can help refugee kids to thrive in Australia
  39. The US quitting the Paris climate agreement will only make things worse
  40. Tax take shrinks as online accommodation agents rake it in
  41. GetUp raises nearly $200,000 in crowdfunding to campaign against Peter Dutton
  42. Newspoll steady at 53-47 to Labor. Plus UK and French elections
  43. When it comes to ransomware, it's sometimes best to pay up
  44. Review: Wonder Woman reinvigorates tired superhero conventions
  45. Trump demands a post-post-truth response
  46. Around the world, environmental laws are under attack in all sorts of ways
  47. Turnbull should deliver Gonski schools plan faster: Grattan Institute
  48. Improving Australia’s health requires better use of patient information
  49. Australia's videogames are inventive, acclaimed and world-class, so where's the government support?
  50. Fifty years on from the 1967 referendum, it's time to tell the truth about race

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Lighting Shop in Perth: How The Right Lighting Can Transform Your Home And Business

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Why Working With A Chatswood Tutor Can Improve Academic Performance

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