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How our gut bacteria affect cancer risk and response to treatment

  • Written by: Hannah Rose Wardill, Postdoctoral research fellow, South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute
imageEach person's unique gut microbiota composition is in continuous communication with the immune system.from shutterstock.com

The trillions of bacteria living in our gut (called the gut microbiota) can help determine our risk of cancer, as well as how we might respond to cancer treatment.

Each person’s unique gut microbiota is in constant commun...

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Budget needs a sharper policy scalpel to help first home buyers

  • Written by: Rachel Ong, Deputy Director, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, Curtin University

In its 2017 budget, the federal government repeatedly stated its preference for a “scalpel” rather than a “chainsaw” or “sledgehammer” approach to demand management in the housing market.

The number of housing measures in the budget are more wide-ranging than in previous budgets of recent times. Policy levers on...

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Islam and feminism are not mutually exclusive, and faith can be an important liberator

  • Written by: Susan Carland, Lecturer, National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University
imageMuslim women are often pressured to choose to identify either with feminism or their faith. AAP/supplied

Islam is not unique in having theological interpretations that centre on men. Christian, Jewish and Buddhist women (and men) have grappled with the overt and covert sexism within their own sacred texts and traditions in numerous ways. This is...

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Why data-driven science is more than just a buzzword

  • Written by: Tara Murphy, Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow, University of Sydney

Forget looking through a telescope at the stars. An astronomer today is more likely to be online: digitally scheduling observations, running them remotely on a telescope in the desert, and downloading the results for analysis.

For many astronomers the first step in doing science is exploring this data computationally. It may sound like a buzzword,...

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  1. Sustainable shopping: with the right tools, you can find an eco-friendly car
  2. Banks may squeal about new tax but they are outgunned
  3. Politics podcast: Mathias Cormann and Anna Bligh on the new bank tax
  4. Senate inquiry told zero tax or royalties paid on Australia's biggest new gas projects
  5. 'Short-sighted' budget means universities can't deliver their full economic benefit
  6. Budget bank levy: too big to fail, not too big to take a hit
  7. From breaking glass to chest bursting, the scientists' review of Alien: Covenant
  8. Australian media at a crossroads amid threats to diversity and survival
  9. Terror, Muslims, and a culture of fear: challenging the media messages
  10. Is this the budget that forgot renters?
  11. Explainer: what is cancer radiotherapy and why do we need proton beam therapy?
  12. Bond aggregator helps build a more virtuous circle of housing investment
  13. Evidence of ancient life in hot springs on Earth could point to fossil life on Mars
  14. Have the arts come out of the cold or is it another sleight of hand?
  15. Curious Kids: What plants could grow in the Goldilocks zone of space?
  16. Decoding the music masterpieces: Brahms's Piano Quartet in G minor
  17. To get the 'good debt' tick, infrastructure needs to be fit for the future
  18. Prescribing generic drugs will reduce patient confusion and medication errors
  19. Budget 2017: Medicare levy rise finances NDIS and banks hit for budget repair
  20. Budget 2017: government goes hard on gas and hydro in bid for energy security
  21. Budget's 'good debt' conversion underpins $70b-plus infrastructure program: experts respond
  22. Budget 2017 sees Medicare rebate freeze slowly lifted and more funding for the NDIS: experts respond
  23. Federal Budget 2017: what's changing in education?
  24. Budget 2017-18 brings welfare crackdown and increased defence and security funding: experts respond
  25. Treasurer Scott Morrison’s 2017-18 budget speech, annotated by experts
  26. The art of the leak: how the budget is strategically doled out for maximum effect
  27. Budget 2017: Morrison heads off the right with an appeal to altruism over self-interest
  28. Infographic: Budget 2017 at a glance
  29. Morrison's fresh start budget comes with fresh pain
  30. Budget 2017: government still tinkering with housing affordability
  31. Budget 2017: bank populism will be paid for by Australians
  32. Winning ugly: the AOC election and the Olympic spirit
  33. Data availability report presents compromised rights for consumers
  34. Life after redundancy: what happens next for journalists when they leave newsrooms
  35. Why Birmingham's performance funding plan won't improve Australian universities
  36. Has the print book trumped digital? Beware of glib conclusions
  37. What's the difference between traumatic fear and moral anger? Trigger warnings won't tell you
  38. Government spending explained in 10 charts; from Howard to Turnbull
  39. Viewpoints: is saturated fat really the killer it's made out to be?
  40. Changes to school funding - your questions answered
  41. Naming suspects in criminal cases opens up ethical minefield
  42. Tax on 'unearned gains' is the missing piece of the affordable housing puzzle
  43. Whiteley: a seductive cinematic portrait of a serious artist
  44. Global warming could accelerate towards 1.5℃ if the Pacific gets cranky
  45. Pilot study on why academics should engage with others in the community
  46. Latham to fight for 'western civilisation' from the Liberal Democrats' kennel
  47. Julie Bishop keeps Abdel-Magied on Australian-Arab board
  48. Therapy for life-threatening eating disorders works, so why can't people access it?
  49. Politics podcast: Andrew Giles on schools funding
  50. TPG bid for Fairfax: what usually happens when private equity meets media?

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