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Companions of Earth: minimoons, quasi-satellites and horseshoes

  • Written by Tanya Hill, Honorary Fellow of the University of Melbourne and Senior Curator (Astronomy), Museum Victoria
imageThe Earth's only steadfast companion.Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/flickr, CC BY-NC-SA

The Earth has one steadfast companion – the moon has been locked in orbit around the Earth since its violent formation more than four billion years ago.

However, Earth’s gravity can also tug on small nearby objects – the near-earth asteroids –...

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All hail the bookshop: survivor against the odds

  • Written by Nick Earls, PhD Candidate in Creative Writing, The University of Queensland
imageWhat could be better than browsing in a bookstore?Snipergirl/flickr

This National Bookshop Day, Australia’s one-time Minister for Small Business, Nick Sherry, will be remembered for his words, not his deeds. A reader, bookbuyer and enthusiastic patron of terrestrial bookshops, in June 2011 Sherry told a conference on online business that,

In...

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Will Chinese investment sacrifice Ukraine's dreams of democracy to economic needs?

  • Written by Olga Oleinikova, Postdoctoral Fellow, Sydney Democracy Network, University of Sydney
imageSome fear that Chinese investment will lead to a painful trade-off between Ukraine's desperate economic needs and its long-standing democratic dream.Sasha Maksymenko/flickr, CC BY-ND

This article is part of the Democracy Futures series, a joint global initiative with the Sydney Democracy Network. The project aims to stimulate fresh thinking about...

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The Galileo gambit and other stories: the three main tactics of climate denial

  • Written by Stephan Lewandowsky, Chair of Cognitive Psychology, University of Bristol
imageGalileo was right, but that doesn't mean his fans are.Justus Sustermans/Wikimedia Commons

The recently elected One Nation senator from Queensland, Malcolm Roberts, fervently rejects the established scientific fact that human greenhouse gas emissions cause climate change, invoking a fairly familiar trope of paranoid theories to propound this belief.

R...

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  1. Hunting, fishing and farming remain the biggest threats to wildlife
  2. The curious incentives and consequences of negative gearing
  3. Science or snake oil? Do the enduring Hydroxycut weight-loss products work?
  4. Homosexuality and the Olympic movement: towards better Games
  5. Incest: why is 'worst of the worst' abuse so often ignored?
  6. Meme wars: Lush, Hillary Clinton and graffiti on Instagram
  7. Nine years after the Pasha Bulker storm, we're finally getting a handle on East Coast Lows
  8. Reserve Bank governor calls for hard talk about budget repair
  9. Did the Census really suffer a denial-of-service 'attack'?
  10. Nauru abuse reports warrant urgent action to protect children in offshore detention
  11. Putting audiences, as well as actors, in the hot seat
  12. People have lost faith in privatisation and it's easy to see why
  13. Turnbull to Australians: your census data is safe despite attack
  14. With a vote delayed, where does this leave constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians?
  15. Weekly Dose: triptans, drugs that relieve migraine but only if taken at the right time
  16. Drowning by averages: did the ABS miscalculate the Census load?
  17. Explainer: what is age-related macular degeneration?
  18. Andrew Bolt and ACMA: should 'hyperbole' get in the way of accuracy?
  19. Census website cracks after 'malicious' attack by hackers
  20. Change Agents: Rhonda Galbally and Bruce Bonyhady on the birth of the NDIS
  21. Natural selection may be the answer to the cancer riddle, but can we beat evolution?
  22. Are the Rio 2016 Games a true measure of Australia's Winning Edge?
  23. More than fun: capitalising sport’s social goods
  24. Business Briefing: the big bucks of broadcasting the Olympics
  25. Rigs to reefs: is it better to leave disused oil platforms where they stand?
  26. Words stripped of meaning: a guide to linguistic spam
  27. ABS's night of disaster as servers crash and millions fail to complete the census
  28. The battle over the census is likely to continue well beyond census night
  29. Medicines to treat side effects of other medicines? Sometimes less is more beneficial
  30. Being 'job ready' is not the purpose of university science degrees
  31. Here's what Australia can do to help end the Chinese organ trade
  32. Dolly the Sheep and the human cloning debate - twenty years later
  33. What Australia needs to do to protect consumers from untested stem-cell treatments
  34. #CensusFail: the ABS hasn't convinced the public their privacy is protected
  35. Horton wins by naming the elephant in the room at Rio Olympics
  36. Smart cities: does this mean more transport disruptions?
  37. Why credit rating agencies' economic advice shouldn't be trusted
  38. Can big data studies know your thoughts and predict who will win an election?
  39. Australians should also worry about white extremists in our own backyard
  40. Why talent transfer is key for a winning rugby Sevens team
  41. Land of the 'fair go' no more: wealth in Australia is becoming more unequal
  42. Ad skipping and blocking could spur an advertising arms race
  43. Why is doping wrong anyway?
  44. Answering the same questions over and over: how to talk to people with dementia
  45. Australia needs better policy to end the alarming increase in land clearing
  46. Here’s looking at: 'Boy with a straw hat ...' by Diane Arbus
  47. Explainer: the mysterious missing magnetic monopole
  48. Costello questions what the Turnbull government can achieve
  49. Does racism make us sick?
  50. Health Check: do cough medicines work?

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