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Denial: a timely reminder that we should confront distortions of history

  • Written by: Mathew Turner, Sessional Academic and Historian, Deakin University
imageRachel Weisz as historian Deborah Lipstadt and Andrew Scott as her solicitor Anthony Julius in Denial. BBC films

How do we know the Holocaust happened? How do we prove it?

American historian Deborah Lipstadt poses these questions to a classroom of students in the opening scene of the film Denial, which opens in Australia this week.

It is a...

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Feeling helpless about the Great Barrier Reef? Here's one way you can help

  • Written by: Justin Marshall, ARC Laureate Fellow, The University of Queensland

It is easy to feel overwhelmed when confronted with reports of the second mass bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef in as many years. But there is a way to help scientists monitor the reef’s condition.

CoralWatch is a citizen science program started at The University of Queensland 15 years ago, with two main aims: to monitor the...

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Live fast, die young: a massive 'dead red' galaxy seen for the first time

  • Written by: Karl Glazebrook, Director & Distinguished Professor, Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology
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The discovery of massive galaxy that stopped making any new stars by the time the Universe was only 1.65 billion years old means we may have to rethink our theories on how galaxies formed.

The galaxy, known as ZF-COSMOS-20115, formed all of its stars (more than three times as many as our Milky Way has today) through an extreme starburst event.

But...

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Unlocking the secrets of street ambience

  • Written by: Nick Patorniti, Researcher, Centre for Human Factors and Sociotechnical Systems, University of the Sunshine Coast
imageWhile many urban design guidelines include ambience as a required 'city quality', few provide ways to achieve it.Ayrcan/flickr, CC BY

What makes a city street “tick”? What gives it that essential but elusive quality of a desirable “ambience”?

Our research uses global data to describe how to achieve the ideal functions of a...

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