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The next solar revolution could replace fossil fuels in mining

  • Written by: Geoffrey Brooks, Pro-Vice Chancellor (Future Manufacturing), Swinburne University of Technology
imageSolar thermal technology uses the sun's heat to generate electricity, or heating. Beyond Coal & Gas Image Library/Flickr, CC BY-NC

Recently Sandfire Resources, a gold and copper producer based in Western Australia, announced its new solar power plant will soon start powering its DeGrussa mine. By replacing diesel power, the 10-megawatt power...

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Does a planet need plate tectonics to develop life?

  • Written by: Craig O'Neill, Director of the Macquarie Planetary Research Centre/Associate Professor in Geodynamics, Macquarie University
imageSome of the Earth's fault lines between tectonic plates in the East Asia region.Shutterstock /Mopic

Plate tectonics may be a phase in the evolution of planets that has implications for the habitability of exoplanets, according to new research published this month in the journal Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors.

Two of the things that...

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It's time for the 'science of sensibility' to return

  • Written by: Alan Davison, Associate Professor and Head of School, Arts, University of New England
imageAngelica Kauffmann, Self-portrait Hesitating between the Arts of Music and Painting, 1791Wikimedia Commons

What is beauty in art? Why can art move us emotionally? How do our minds and bodies respond to art? These and other questions, some linked to what we now call aesthetics, occupied some of the greatest minds of the Enlightenment period. During...

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Engie's Hazelwood super profit highlights our tangled web of energy policy

  • Written by: Mike Sandiford, Professor of Geology, University of Melbourne

The strangeness of last Sunday …

Has there ever been better times for our electricity utilities?

Sunday is typically pretty subdued in terms of electricity demand. Consequently Sunday market prices are at the low-end of the weekly range, even with the extra demands of a chilly winter day.

Since the beginning of 2008, the Sunday market price in...

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  1. Coalition squeezes welfare lemon again
  2. Coalition targets welfare in $2.3b pre-election savings pitch
  3. Bill Shorten says the lesson of Brexit is that people shouldn't be left behind
  4. The off-topic Conversation #99
  5. Election FactCheck: Has the Coalition invested an average of $5 billion more per year into Medicare than Labor did?
  6. To eliminate misogyny, the AFL needs social change, not just crisis management
  7. Post-Brexit, Australia's best option is a trade pact with EU
  8. Ancient Deep Skull still holds big surprises 60 years after it was unearthed
  9. How the desire for masculinity might drive some disadvantaged young men to substance abuse
  10. The Rise of the Joyful Economy
  11. The voter paradox: we say we don't want a minority government, but we're happy to vote for one
  12. Risks, ethics and consent: Australia shouldn't become the world's nuclear wasteland
  13. What’s the 'ethnic vote' going to do in Australia's top-ten ethnic marginal seats?
  14. Full response from Pathology Australia
  15. Full response from Catholic Health Australia
  16. Election FactCheck: has the Coalition cut bulk-billing for pathology and scans 'to make patients pay more'?
  17. Despite the rhetoric, this election fails the feminist test
  18. Unit pricing saves money but is the forgotten shopping tool
  19. Labor's proposed competition reforms do little to address inequality
  20. Doctors still provide too many dying patients with needless treatment
  21. Bad behaviour in bars and pubs is a problem, but most of Australia's alcohol is drunk at home
  22. We can have fish and dams: here's how
  23. Let's talk about the space industry in Australia's election campaign
  24. Abbott would have lost 'resoundingly': Turnbull
  25. The Indi Project: 'Soft' voters trust Turnbull over Shorten to run the country
  26. Lessons from Brexit: the fruits of globalisation must be shared with low- and middle-income groups
  27. Brexit: act in haste...
  28. The Briefcase: does Australia's 'most exploitative reality show' breach broadcasting rules?
  29. Election FactCheck: Have 300,000 new jobs been created in the last calendar year and were almost two-thirds held by women?
  30. How time-poor scientists inadvertently made it seem like the world was overrun with jellyfish
  31. Australia should aim for a trade deal with the UK post Brexit
  32. Australia doesn't need a plebiscite on same-sex marriage – Ireland's experience shows why
  33. Higher education gets short shrift in the election campaign, and we are all the poorer for it
  34. Health Check: is caffeine actually bad for kids?
  35. The same kind of 'silent majority' that spoke on Brexit may also be a force here
  36. 'The urban': a concept under stress in an interconnected world
  37. For the English, Brexit will mean economic pain
  38. Election 2016: will the infrastructure promises meet Australia's needs?
  39. A focus on economics (the dismal science) has produced a dismal election debate
  40. Indigenous suicide rates in the Kimberley seven times national average
  41. Rush to dam northern Australia comes at the expense of sustainability
  42. Wind and solar PV have won the race – it's too late for other clean energy technologies
  43. Life lessons from the editing suite of Paul Cox
  44. How Australia played the world's first music on a computer
  45. Malcolm Turnbull invokes Brexit to reinforce his campaign, as Newspoll has Coalition moving ahead
  46. Labor costings pass, but scare tactics detract
  47. Labor costings: ALP deficit $16.5 billion higher over the budget period
  48. Malcolm Turnbull: don't risk change or protest
  49. Europe endless, or Europe ending?
  50. After Brexit, keep a close watch on Italy and its Five Star Movement

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