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Weekly Dose: codeine doesn't work for some people, and works too well for others

  • Written by: Olaf Drummer, Professor, Forensic Medicine, Monash University
imageThough the codeine we take today is made synthetically, small amounts of codeine are actually found in the opium poppy.Daniel Jolivet/Flickr, CC BY-SA

Codeine is a synthetic drug derived from morphine. It was first discovered in 1832 by Pierre Robiquet, a French chemist. Small amounts of codeine are actually found in the opium poppy from which...

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Here's a good news conservation story: farmers are helping endangered ecosystems

  • Written by: David Lindenmayer, Professor, The Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
imageThe Fat-tailed Dunnart is found in box gum grassy woodland. Damian Michael

There a many reasons to be unhappy about the state of the environment. But we’ve recently found some good news: a conservation program that works.

You probably haven’t heard of the Environmental Stewardship Program (ESP). It was a market-based agri-environment...

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Wall St might not be ready for a war on high-frequency trading

  • Written by: Vinay Patel, Lecturer, Finance, University of Technology Sydney

Stock markets globally have seen increased fragmentation in recent times as investors seek lower transaction costs, faster execution time of trades and fairer prices.

Now a startup backed by US entrepreneur Eric Ries and some Silicon Valley supporters have initiated talks with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for a new type of trading...

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Infographic: how much does Australia spend on science and research?

  • Written by: Merlin Crossley, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Education and Professor of Molecular Biology, UNSW Australia
imageCSIRO has received significant cuts to its budget over the past several years.David McClenaghan, CC BY

The election is rapidly approaching, and all major parties – Liberal, Labor and Greens – have now made announcements about their policies to support science and research.

But how are we doing so far? Here we look at the state of science...

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  1. The Indi Project: who do Indi voters trust to run the country?
  2. How a Brexit could impact on Australia
  3. Business Briefing: ASIC tries to prevent fintech startups from becoming scammers
  4. Listening but not hearing: process has trumped substance in Indigenous affairs
  5. Tackling Indigenous family violence needs more than band-aid solutions
  6. Are the Greens really the climate radicals we need?
  7. Should academics cite those who have breached moral and humane borders?
  8. New food labels should go further than country of origin
  9. Spacing of letters, not shape of letters, slightly increases reading speed of those with dyslexia
  10. Collecting data to help protect Australia's waters from toxic algal blooms
  11. Turnbull's message to First Australians: we want to do things with you
  12. Simple processing and clever apps? Don't hold your breath for a user-friendly Medicare IT system
  13. Gender equity can cause sex differences to grow bigger
  14. Howard is marked up and Abbott down in handling foreign policy: Lowy poll
  15. PolicyCheck: What are the parties really offering to save the Great Barrier Reef?
  16. Fair play at the Olympics: testosterone and female athletes
  17. How should reading be taught in schools?
  18. How political opinion polls affect voter behaviour
  19. NSW budget delivers a fat surplus, but mixed bag for Turnbull's chances
  20. The five must-see films of the Sydney Film Festival
  21. A brief history of fossil-fuelled climate denial
  22. Pyne versus Carr on innovation – who came out top?
  23. An Arrium bailout shows how the myth of manufacturing and growth lives on
  24. Shorten's scare campaign will be all or nothing
  25. Smart cities wouldn't let housing costs drive the worse-off into deeper disadvantage
  26. Politicians' inability to speak freely on issues that matter leaves democracy all the poorer
  27. A vote for Brexit means a wounded David Cameron and a calamitous blow to Europe
  28. Seven ways to tell whether a private equity-backed IPO should be avoided
  29. Internships help students better manage their careers
  30. Explainer: the art of video game writing
  31. Why we regain weight after drastic dieting
  32. How we convinced people to trust a new innovative approach to eliminate dengue
  33. Global agriculture study finds developing countries most threatened by invasive pest species
  34. Why so many Australian species are yet to be named
  35. Turnbull admits to critic of marriage plebiscite: 'you make a powerful point'
  36. Juno is about to peer under the clouds of Jupiter
  37. Liberals shielding minister Sussan Ley from debate about health
  38. Response from Labor spokesperson
  39. Election FactCheck Q A: does the government spend more on negative gearing and capital gains tax discounts than on child care or higher education?
  40. Little difference between Labor and the Coalition's jobs programs for young people
  41. Eddie McGuire, Caroline Wilson and when 'playful banter' goes very, very wrong
  42. Here’s looking at: Edgar Degas’ Woman seated on the edge of the bath sponging her neck
  43. Health Check: what is the common cold and how do we get it?
  44. Lessons from the Depression era in how to lose government in a single term
  45. Large growth in student numbers is threatening sustainability of university system
  46. The off-topic Conversation #98
  47. Coalition leads in ReachTEL, but not in other polls
  48. Election explainer: how does the Senate count work?
  49. To Elle and Back: Reviewing the reviewers
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