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Natural selection may be the answer to the cancer riddle, but can we beat evolution?

  • Written by Beata Ujvari, Senior Research Fellow in Evolutionary Ecology, Deakin University
imageCancer's development and progression represent an evolutionary process.from shutterstock.com

Essential organs tasked with keeping us alive and reproducing – such as the heart, brain or uterus – may have evolved better protection against cancer than larger and paired organs, we have proposed.

In an article published today in the journal Tr...

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Are the Rio 2016 Games a true measure of Australia's Winning Edge?

  • Written by Lisa Gowthorp, Assistant Professor of Sport Management, Bond University
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Australia has had a good start to the Rio Olympics, appearing well placed for a more successful campaign than the London Games. But does that mean the strategy created in response to Australia’s poor Olympic performance in 2012 is working?

Under its new policy – known as Australia’s Winning Edge – the Australian Sports...

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More than fun: capitalising sport’s social goods

  • Written by Geoff Woolcock, Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Human Services and Social Work, Griffith University
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Sport, we’re told, lies at the heart of what it means to be Australian. But what in reality does this mean? The Conversation, in partnership with Griffith Review, is publishing a series of essays exploring the role and place of sport in Australian life.

The 21st century has already seen a stream of premature epitaphs written for many...

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Business Briefing: the big bucks of broadcasting the Olympics

  • Written by Jenni Henderson, Assistant Editor, Business and Economy, The Conversation

Since the first telecast of the Olympics in 1936 from Berlin, television has been a major part of the games. The first time broadcasters paid for the rights to show the Olympics was in 1960 for US$1.2 million (about US$10 million today).

Research shows media companies lose money on the broadcasting rights. But it also seems there is no limit to...

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  1. Rigs to reefs: is it better to leave disused oil platforms where they stand?
  2. Words stripped of meaning: a guide to linguistic spam
  3. ABS's night of disaster as servers crash and millions fail to complete the census
  4. The battle over the census is likely to continue well beyond census night
  5. Medicines to treat side effects of other medicines? Sometimes less is more beneficial
  6. Being 'job ready' is not the purpose of university science degrees
  7. Here's what Australia can do to help end the Chinese organ trade
  8. Dolly the Sheep and the human cloning debate - twenty years later
  9. What Australia needs to do to protect consumers from untested stem-cell treatments
  10. #CensusFail: the ABS hasn't convinced the public their privacy is protected
  11. Horton wins by naming the elephant in the room at Rio Olympics
  12. Smart cities: does this mean more transport disruptions?
  13. Why credit rating agencies' economic advice shouldn't be trusted
  14. Can big data studies know your thoughts and predict who will win an election?
  15. Australians should also worry about white extremists in our own backyard
  16. Why talent transfer is key for a winning rugby Sevens team
  17. Land of the 'fair go' no more: wealth in Australia is becoming more unequal
  18. Ad skipping and blocking could spur an advertising arms race
  19. Why is doping wrong anyway?
  20. Answering the same questions over and over: how to talk to people with dementia
  21. Australia needs better policy to end the alarming increase in land clearing
  22. Here’s looking at: 'Boy with a straw hat ...' by Diane Arbus
  23. Explainer: the mysterious missing magnetic monopole
  24. Costello questions what the Turnbull government can achieve
  25. Does racism make us sick?
  26. Health Check: do cough medicines work?
  27. Free speech: would removing Section 18C really give us the right to be bigots?
  28. I won't be giving my name to census: Xenophon
  29. Explainer: what is the census, and why does it matter?
  30. FactCheck: do welfare recipients owe the Australian government about $3.5 billion?
  31. Can you 'teach' workers to be more emotionally resilient?
  32. India's GST promises growth, reform and opportunities
  33. Size is largely in the mind: how your body image can change in two minutes
  34. The new Senate looms as a serious problem for a damaged Malcolm Turnbull
  35. Death by dingo: outsourcing pest control raises uncomfortable questions
  36. Without action, Asia-Pacific ecosystems could lose a third of their value by 2050
  37. Can we learn from Thucydides' writings on the Trump of ancient Athens?
  38. What if intelligent machines could learn from each other?
  39. Why technology makes us dishonest: ways to reduce cheating at self-service checkouts
  40. Further Senate results and analysis
  41. The 'no' campaign on marriage equality owes us better arguments
  42. Capitalism and Democracy [part 3]
  43. Whither anarchy: the fantasy of natural law
  44. Whither anarchy: ownness as a form of freedom
  45. Turnbull inquiry-lite bank plan falls short
  46. Latest PBO costings won't hold any parties to account
  47. Here's how you beat 'indestructible' head lice
  48. One Nation's Malcolm Roberts is in denial about the facts of climate change
  49. Whither anarchy: perspectives on anarchism and liberty
  50. Whither anarchy: freedom as non-domination

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