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Survival of the fittest? Perhaps not if you're a Tasmanian devil

  • Written by: Konstans Wells, Research Fellow in Ecology, Griffith University
imageAggressive behaviour exhibited by socially dominant Tasmanian devils may predispose them to infection with devil facial tumour disease.Sebastien Compte/University of Tasmania, Author provided

Tasmanian devils in their prime are most likely to become infected with deadly facial tumour disease (DFTD), our research shows.

The findings, published today...

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The off-topic Conversation #122

  • Written by: Molly Glassey, Audience Development Manager, The Conversation

Welcome to The Conversation’s off-topic space. We’ve set this up as the place where you can discuss anything that isn’t related to a specific article. Please feel free to use this space to get to know each other and talk about news elsewhere and whatever else strikes your fancy.

This is also an opportunity to discuss broader...

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Explainer: how the brain changes when we learn to read

  • Written by: Nicola Bell, PhD student, The University of Queensland
imageLearning to read is not actually that easy. from shutterstock.com

Right now, you are reading these words without much thought or conscious effort. In lightning-fast bursts, your eyes are darting from left to right across your screen, somehow making meaning from what would otherwise be a series of black squiggles.

Reading for you is not just easy...

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Humane and intimate, how the Red Cross helped families trace the fates of WW2 soldiers

  • Written by: Fiona Ross, Senior Archivist at the University of Melbourne Archives, University of Melbourne
imageAustralians shelter from Japanese snipers in Borneo, 1945Australian War Memorial collection/Flickr

Private Rawson’s mother first contacted the Red Cross in early April 1942, six weeks after her son was captured by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore. For her, and thousands of other Australian mothers, fathers, wives, sisters and brothers,...

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