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How to grow an evolutionary tree

  • Written by Jonathan Keith, Associate Professor, School of Mathematical Sciences, Monash University
imageA simplified Tree of Life summarising the evolutionary relationships among a broad selection of living organisms.Shutterstock/Zern Liew

You’ve seen them in popular science news, biology textbooks, wall plaques in museums, perhaps even as tattoos. Evolutionary trees are among the most instantly recognisable, ubiquitous and iconic images of...

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Behind Singapore’s PISA rankings success – and why other countries may not want to join the race

  • Written by Amanda Wise, Associate professor, Macquarie University
image60% of high school students in Singapore receive private tuition.from www.shutterstock.com

Singapore has topped the global Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) rankings in maths, science and reading, while countries including Australia, France and the UK sit in the bottom batch of OECD countries for achievement in these areas.

So...

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Our drugs policies have failed. It's time to reinvent them based on what actually works

  • Written by Alison Ritter, Professor & Specialist in Drug Policy, UNSW Australia
imageHow should we deal with this?Shutterstock

There is only one way to make better decisions about illicit drugs and so save lives and money: we need to change the way drugs policies are made.

The alternative is to remain stuck in the same futile cycle. Every time a young person dies tragically and needlessly at a music festival or dance party, our...

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Why the Iran nuclear agreement is a deal worth honouring

  • Written by Anthony Billingsley, Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, UNSW Australia
imageDonald Trump promised during his campaign to renegotiate parts of the Iranian nuclear deal.Reuters/Jonathan Ernst

One of the most important issues US President-elect Donald Trump raised during his election campaign was the Iran nuclear agreement. Trump strongly rejected the deal and promised to at least renegotiate its provisions.

It is too soon to...

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  1. Trumpian deswampification
  2. Why iron is such an important part of your diet
  3. Climate shenanigans at the ends of the Earth: why has sea ice gone haywire?
  4. Density threatens liveability if we miss the big picture of how a city works
  5. The Christmas Film Recommendables - Part 6
  6. Uncertainty over US-China relations under President Trump may be made clearer at Davos
  7. Business Briefing: what super is doing to banking and finance
  8. Seven essential tips to breaking up with sugar
  9. Interactive body map: physical inactivity and the risks to your health
  10. Exercise: motivation gets you started, but routine keeps you going
  11. What you need to know to understand risk estimates
  12. By framing secular society as a Christian creation, Hanson's revival goes beyond simple racism
  13. Guide to the classics: the Arthurian legend
  14. Why artificial intelligence has not revolutionised healthcare... yet
  15. How to reduce your kitchen's impact on global warming
  16. Ten years of backflips over emissions trading leave climate policy in the lurch
  17. As its economy changes, China is starting to export its real estate ideas too
  18. Politics podcast: Nick Xenophon on working the new parliament
  19. Why give the Green Army its marching orders?
  20. Tiny desert mice could help save Australia's grasslands from invasion
  21. Australia is very average when it comes to maths and science performance – here's what needs to change
  22. Government calls for co-operation after hit with negative growth figure
  23. Why the next editor-in-chief at The Age should be a woman
  24. Why are the best shut out? The sorry saga of performing arts funding in Australia
  25. Keeping one step ahead of pollen triggers for thunderstorm asthma
  26. Where are the women scientists, tech gurus and engineers in our films?
  27. Periodontitis: why we need a vaccine for gum disease
  28. Coalition regains ground in Newspoll
  29. Hold pornography to account – not education programs – for children's harmful sexual behaviour
  30. These are the characteristics of people most likely to cut corners at work
  31. The Christmas Film Recommendables - Part 5
  32. The off-topic Conversation #113
  33. Australia's students are failing. I blame the politicians
  34. Turnbull government rules out an emissions intensity scheme
  35. Pavlov's plants: new study shows plants can learn from experience
  36. FactCheck: Is Australia’s use of antibiotics in general practice 20% above the OECD average?
  37. Regional Australia is crying out for equitable access to broadband
  38. Laughs, cries and deception: birds' emotional lives are just as complicated as ours
  39. It will take years to know whether New South Wales' shark nets are working
  40. Twitter influences investor behaviour whether companies intend it to or not: new research
  41. Remembering Peter Corrigan: a life of movement, energy and integrity
  42. We don't need greater access to Nembutal to achieve good end-of-life care
  43. Australia’s human rights debate has always been political
  44. PISA results don’t look good, but before we panic let’s look at what we can learn from the latest test
  45. Five ways to spend with more social purpose this Christmas
  46. Hanson thinks Culleton has swollen head
  47. Wings of desire, demise and adaptation: birds in Australian art
  48. First the word, then the deed: how an 'ethnocracy' like Australia works
  49. Traditional hunting gets headlines, but is not the big threat to turtles and dugongs
  50. What’s next for Italy?
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