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Why we signed the open letter from scientists supporting a total ban on nuclear weapons

  • Written by: Toby Walsh, Professor of AI at UNSW, Research Group Leader, Data61
imageThe UN is debating a total ban on all nuclear weapons.Wikimedia

These are dangerous times. The Doomsday Clock sits at just two and a half minutes before midnight, which represents global catastrophe.

The Doomsday Clock has been maintained by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists since 1947, and has only ever been closer to midnight back in 1953,...

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A soldier and a sex worker walk into a therapist’s office. Who's more likely to have PTSD?

  • Written by: Mary-Anne Kate, PhD Candidate in Psychology, University of New England
imageOur views of who's at risk of post-traumatic stress disorder might cloud who we think deserves to be treated.from www.shutterstock.com

When we think about post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), we most often think of soldiers traumatised by their experiences of war. But the statistics tell another story.

While about 5-12% of Australian military...

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Plastic fantastic: how lotteries could revolutionise recycling

  • Written by: Ian A. MacKenzie, Senior Lecturer in Economics, The University of Queensland
imageSo many ways to win.Bignai/Shutterstock.com

In July 2018, Queensland will launch a container refund scheme, in a bid to boost recycling and reduce litter and pollution.

It will join South Australia, the Northern Territory, New South Wales (later this year) and other places around the world in offering a small refund on all eligible drink containers...

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  1. Australia may be closer to being a cashless society but it won't happen by 2020
  2. Late payments: the policy no-brainer for business
  3. Hanson stirs the sugar pot and backflips on penalty rates
  4. The government is belatedly backing the penalty rates cut it always wanted
  5. PolicyCheck: the government's new child care plan
  6. Co-working is evolving to combine co-living
  7. Green chemistry is key to reducing waste and improving sustainablity
  8. Something big exploded in a galaxy far, far away: what was it?
  9. Technology-facilitated abuse: the new breed of domestic violence
  10. Distress, status wars and immoral behaviour: the psychological impacts of inequality
  11. Health Check: are microgreens better for you than regular greens?
  12. Indians' 'notes ban' compliance masks a silent crisis of legitimacy
  13. Li Keqiang's visit a good sign for the China-Australia relationship
  14. Millions of Australian adults are unvaccinated and it's increasing disease risk for all of us
  15. There are more useful questions to ask than whether Australia has 'too many' charities
  16. Government behind 45-55% in Ipsos poll
  17. Drawings reveal the struggles and triumphs of child refugees in their first six months of high school
  18. Safe in the City? Girls tell it like it is
  19. Five golden rules to help solve your recycling dilemmas
  20. Recycling can be confusing, but it’s getting simpler
  21. Rising imports make the case for Trump's border adjustment tax in Australia
  22. Youth underemployment at four-decade peak: Brotherhood report
  23. Regression to the mean, or why perfection rarely lasts
  24. Estonia is putting its country in the cloud and offering virtual residency
  25. Why aren't more people using the My Health Record?
  26. Does everything and nothing change when a cyclist dies?
  27. Decoding the music masterpieces: Bach's The Art of Fugue
  28. How our species got smarter: through a rush of blood to the head
  29. Not-for-profits must adapt as one arm of government's 'three-sector solutions'
  30. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the backlash to the 18C changes
  31. Decriminalisation in the NT signals abortion is part of normal health care
  32. ASIC's CommInsure pass shows why badly behaving bankers will never fear jail time
  33. Sporting codes' deals with gambling companies force them into a Faustian bargain
  34. Friday essay: reading Germaine Greer's mail
  35. Capital gains tax concession is too generous: economists poll
  36. What languages should children be learning to get ahead?
  37. Australia could alleviate its youth justice crisis by importing the right ideas from the US
  38. Painkillers like ibuprofen can increase the risk of heart disease and should be restricted
  39. Vital Signs: if it looks like a bubble and sounds like a bubble...
  40. Three rivers are now legally people – but that's just the start of looking after them
  41. How we edit science part 5: so what is science?
  42. Grattan on Friday: Barnaby Joyce is telling the government to listen to politics in the pub
  43. The metapolitical long game of the European New Right
  44. Let me entertain you – that's how to get a science message across
  45. Australia's copyright reform could bring millions of books and other reads to the blind
  46. National Science Statement does little to bring industry and researchers together
  47. Research suggests motherhood has changed my brain.
  48. How 19th century fairy tales expressed anxieties about ecological devastation
  49. FactCheck Q A: Has confidence in the media in Australia dropped lower than in the United States?
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