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Keeping one step ahead of pollen triggers for thunderstorm asthma

  • Written by: Ed Newbigin, Associate Professor of Botany, University of Melbourne
imageAfter the storm ... Researchers are working together to predict future outbreaks of thunderstorm asthma.from www.shutterstock.com

The recent Melbourne thunderstorm asthma event has led some people to question what made this hay fever season so bad and how this tragic event occurred.

Thunderstorm asthma, a sudden surge in cases of acute respiratory...

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Where are the women scientists, tech gurus and engineers in our films?

  • Written by: Vivienne Glance, Hon Research Fellow in Poetry and Theatre studies, University of Western Australia
imageJoseph Mazzello and Jesse Eisenberg in The Social Network (2010): women are rarely depicted in such roles on screen.Columbia Pictures

Perennial stories about the lack of women working in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) often revolve around why women are not studying these subjects, and when they do, why they don’t...

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Periodontitis: why we need a vaccine for gum disease

  • Written by: Ivan Darby, Professor, Head of Periodontics, University of Melbourne
imageGum disease progresses slowly over a period of 20 to 30 years before the teeth are lost.from shutterstock.com

Scientists from The University of Melbourne have developed a world-first vaccine to treat gum disease. Their research, published in the journal NPJ Vaccines, has so far only tested the vaccine in mice.

If successful in human trials, the...

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Coalition regains ground in Newspoll

  • Written by: Adrian Beaumont, Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne

This week’s Newspoll, conducted Thursday to Sunday from a sample of 1630, has Labor leading by 52-48, but this is a one point gain for the Coalition. Primary votes are 39% for the Coalition (up 1), 36% for Labor (down 2) and 10% for the Greens (steady). This Newspoll is likely to be the final Newspoll for the year.

Despite the...

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  2. These are the characteristics of people most likely to cut corners at work
  3. The Christmas Film Recommendables - Part 5
  4. The off-topic Conversation #113
  5. Australia's students are failing. I blame the politicians
  6. Turnbull government rules out an emissions intensity scheme
  7. Pavlov's plants: new study shows plants can learn from experience
  8. FactCheck: Is Australia’s use of antibiotics in general practice 20% above the OECD average?
  9. Regional Australia is crying out for equitable access to broadband
  10. Laughs, cries and deception: birds' emotional lives are just as complicated as ours
  11. It will take years to know whether New South Wales' shark nets are working
  12. Twitter influences investor behaviour whether companies intend it to or not: new research
  13. Remembering Peter Corrigan: a life of movement, energy and integrity
  14. We don't need greater access to Nembutal to achieve good end-of-life care
  15. Australia’s human rights debate has always been political
  16. PISA results don’t look good, but before we panic let’s look at what we can learn from the latest test
  17. Five ways to spend with more social purpose this Christmas
  18. Hanson thinks Culleton has swollen head
  19. Wings of desire, demise and adaptation: birds in Australian art
  20. First the word, then the deed: how an 'ethnocracy' like Australia works
  21. Traditional hunting gets headlines, but is not the big threat to turtles and dugongs
  22. What’s next for Italy?
  23. Does medical research funding need a paradigm shift?
  24. When planning falls short: the challenges of informal settlements
  25. Drugs for delirium don't work, and may in fact harm
  26. Why OPEC's squeeze on oil prices is getting weaker all the time
  27. Great Barrier Reef needs far more help than Australia claims in its latest report to UNESCO
  28. Australians can have zero-emission electricity, without blowing the bill
  29. 'We lost the house, we lost everything': what dealing with financial stress looks like
  30. The limits of empathy: Matthew Flinders' encounters with Indigenous Australians
  31. Listen up: running sounds contain clues for injury prevention
  32. Australia's political elites are fiddling while Rome burns
  33. Our ideas about vertebrate evolution challenged by a new tree of life
  34. The Christmas Film Recommendables - Part 4
  35. The 'no' vote in Italy's referendum triggers economic and political uncertainty
  36. Tipping the scales on Christmas Island: wasps and bugs use other species, so why can’t we?
  37. Your smartphone knows a lot about you, but what about your mental health?
  38. Why we should no longer consider Last Tango in Paris 'a classic'
  39. Introducing competition to the health sector should be treated with caution
  40. Abbott 'dismayed' by report of end of his Green Army
  41. Australia's 'great green boom' of 2010-11 has been undone by drought
  42. John Key quits while he's ahead – so what's next for New Zealand politics?
  43. Goodbye, Dolly, the magazine that helped so many young women grow up
  44. Financial wizardry alone won't stave off a Chinese debt crisis
  45. Could a cannabis pill reduce chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting? Here's how we find out
  46. Health Check: do home remedies for common warts really work?
  47. Why don't more people volunteer? Misconceptions don't help
  48. Governments need to look beyond education rankings and focus on inequities in the system
  49. Neighbours' fears about affordable housing are worse than any impacts
  50. From 'fascists' to 'feminazis': how both sides of politics are biased in their political thinking

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