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Spacing of letters, not shape of letters, slightly increases reading speed of those with dyslexia

  • Written by Eva Marinus, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Macquarie University
imageArial font was as effective as Dyslexie front when the spacing of letters and words were enlarged.from www.shutterstock.com

In 2008, a new font designed called “Dyslexie” was labelled “a breakthrough” by the media for reportedly being about to help increase the reading speed of those with dyslexia. It received media...

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Collecting data to help protect Australia's waters from toxic algal blooms

  • Written by Penelope Ajani, Chancellors Post Doctoral Fellow, Climate Change Cluster, University of Technology Sydney
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Ever heard of Thalassiosira, Detonula, Leptocylindrus or Chaetoceros? No, they are not the names of Greek gods but arguably some of the most important and beautiful organisms on earth: the diatoms.

Diatoms are largely unseen due to their microscopic size but they are the most abundant and diverse single-celled phytoplankton (or microalgae) in the...

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Turnbull's message to First Australians: we want to do things with you

  • Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Malcolm Turnbull is at his best when he can rise above the overtly partisan fray. So it was on Tuesday that he gave one of the most powerful speeches of his campaign, at a hand-back ceremony marking the end of a decades-long battle for Aboriginal land that lies across the harbour from Darwin and covers most of the Cox Peninsula.

Before becoming...

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Simple processing and clever apps? Don't hold your breath for a user-friendly Medicare IT system

  • Written by David Glance, Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, University of Western Australia

The privatisation of Australia’s Medicare organisation has become a hot issue in this election with the Labor party accusing the Liberals of wanting to privatise Medicare.

The Liberal Government earlier this year earmarked A$5 million to fund consultants to review the digital payment services of Medicare. This was with a view to cutting...

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  1. Gender equity can cause sex differences to grow bigger
  2. Howard is marked up and Abbott down in handling foreign policy: Lowy poll
  3. PolicyCheck: What are the parties really offering to save the Great Barrier Reef?
  4. Fair play at the Olympics: testosterone and female athletes
  5. How should reading be taught in schools?
  6. How political opinion polls affect voter behaviour
  7. NSW budget delivers a fat surplus, but mixed bag for Turnbull's chances
  8. The five must-see films of the Sydney Film Festival
  9. A brief history of fossil-fuelled climate denial
  10. Pyne versus Carr on innovation – who came out top?
  11. An Arrium bailout shows how the myth of manufacturing and growth lives on
  12. Shorten's scare campaign will be all or nothing
  13. Smart cities wouldn't let housing costs drive the worse-off into deeper disadvantage
  14. Politicians' inability to speak freely on issues that matter leaves democracy all the poorer
  15. A vote for Brexit means a wounded David Cameron and a calamitous blow to Europe
  16. Seven ways to tell whether a private equity-backed IPO should be avoided
  17. Internships help students better manage their careers
  18. Explainer: the art of video game writing
  19. Why we regain weight after drastic dieting
  20. How we convinced people to trust a new innovative approach to eliminate dengue
  21. Global agriculture study finds developing countries most threatened by invasive pest species
  22. Why so many Australian species are yet to be named
  23. Turnbull admits to critic of marriage plebiscite: 'you make a powerful point'
  24. Juno is about to peer under the clouds of Jupiter
  25. Liberals shielding minister Sussan Ley from debate about health
  26. Response from Labor spokesperson
  27. Election FactCheck Q A: does the government spend more on negative gearing and capital gains tax discounts than on child care or higher education?
  28. Little difference between Labor and the Coalition's jobs programs for young people
  29. Eddie McGuire, Caroline Wilson and when 'playful banter' goes very, very wrong
  30. Here’s looking at: Edgar Degas’ Woman seated on the edge of the bath sponging her neck
  31. Health Check: what is the common cold and how do we get it?
  32. Lessons from the Depression era in how to lose government in a single term
  33. Large growth in student numbers is threatening sustainability of university system
  34. The off-topic Conversation #98
  35. Coalition leads in ReachTEL, but not in other polls
  36. Election explainer: how does the Senate count work?
  37. To Elle and Back: Reviewing the reviewers
  38. What sort of Reserve Bank governor will Philip Lowe be?
  39. Major parties are behind the times – and strangely silent – on social policy
  40. The growing cost of internships could add to inequality
  41. A fanfare of failures: why celebrate Florence Foster Jenkins and Eddie the Eagle?
  42. Science or snake oil: is Garcinia cambogia the magic weight-loss pill it's hyped up to be?
  43. Catholic church starts small but is clearly thinking big on fossil fuel divestment
  44. UFOs, climate change and missing airliners: how to separate fact from fiction
  45. Shorten seeks to keep alive hope of a Labor win
  46. Bill Shorten's campaign pitch: don't risk Medicare under the Liberals
  47. On track for the Rio Olympics? IAAF ban means Russian athletes may not compete
  48. In the world's biggest city, the past offers lessons for surviving the future
  49. Shorten plays Facebook game, telling people to hit Like
  50. ATNIX: Australian Twitter News Index, May 2016

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