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Explainer: How to find an exoplanet (part 2)

  • Written by Jonti Horner, Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow, University of Southern Queensland
imageAn artists’s impression of how common planets are around the stars in the Milky Way.ESO/M. Kornmesser

The search for planets around other star systems has been going on for decades and the results are now coming in thick and fast. This series looks at some of the techniques astronomers use to find and learn more about these exoplanets. You...

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Apple emphasises social responsibility and new features but is superficial on both

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

Apple’s world-wide developer’s conference (WWDC) kicked off today in San Franisco with a keynote that many expected to be low on new product announcements. As it turned out, the conference was overshadowed by the tragic shootings in Orlando plus the announcement by Microsoft that it is planning to buy...

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Me Before You Before Fiction

  • Written by Lauren Rosewarne, Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne
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In the lead up to its US release, American television was running a curious tout. Apparently, Me Before You was better than The Fault in Their Stars.

Um, way to set the bar nice and low.

Along with the laughably low-ball ads, it’s been impossible to ignore the savage criticism. Complete with protests.

Complaints weren’t about its...

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Treaty talk is only one problem for Indigenous recognition referendum

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

Would debate about a treaty with the First Australians endanger the success of the proposed referendum for their constitutional recognition – as Malcolm Turnbull claims?

Very likely. But it can’t be avoided if that’s what many in the Indigenous community want to canvass. And it is far from the only obstacle for the referendum.

The...

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  1. #ausvotes 2016: some early impressions
  2. Microsoft sees integration opportunities in LinkedIn purchase – but will users care?
  3. Is nicotine really as safe as e-cigarette supporters make out?
  4. The off-topic Conversation #97
  5. Trollied: serves you (just) right
  6. Climate change makes a comeback – with the help of social media
  7. Labor's NBN plan shows it listened to critics of the current broadband rollout
  8. On asylum seekers, our history keeps repeating itself
  9. Computing gives us tools to preserve disappearing languages
  10. Dark Mofo and the affective power of a creative storm
  11. The Paris climate agreement needs coordinated carbon prices to be successful
  12. Queensland's 50-year vision for its southeast must take heed of all region's future needs
  13. Election FactCheck: have 50,000 full-time jobs been lost this year and are over a million people underemployed?
  14. State of the states: 19 reasons why Turnbull and Shorten keep flying to Queensland
  15. State of the states: New South Wales and the issues resounding in bellwether seats
  16. New style lobbying: how GetUp! channels Australians' voices into politics
  17. Australian Christian Lobby: the rise and fall of the religious right
  18. Paralysed with fear: why do we freeze when frightened?
  19. Is coal the only way to deal with energy poverty in developing economies?
  20. Woolworths and Coles should heed simplicity lesson from Aldi
  21. Emancipated wenches in gaudy jewellery: the liberating bling of the goldfields
  22. How citizen scientists discovered a giant cluster of galaxies
  23. OECD figures are not what they seem in higher education
  24. The Indi Project: Soft voters say Turnbull better leader to handle a Trump presidency
  25. How do Labor and the Coalition differ on NBN policy?
  26. Full response from a Labor spokesman
  27. Dopey and grumpy: Maria Sharapova and WADA
  28. Health Check: how much salt is OK to eat?
  29. Election explainer: how are lower house votes counted? And what is 'the swing'?
  30. Business is waking up to the idea of deep learning
  31. Why are so few professional sport coaches from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities?
  32. Computers may be evolving but are they intelligent?
  33. Turnbull's election to lose
  34. Resettling refugees in Australia would not resume the people-smuggling trade
  35. Chemical messengers: how hormones change through menopause
  36. The hidden energy cost of smart homes
  37. Insider trading is greedy, not glamorous, and it hurts us all
  38. Venice Biennale: an exhausting, beautiful attempt to relinquish architecture
  39. Ancient asteroid impacts yield evidence for the nature of the early Earth
  40. Genes can have up to 80% influence on students' academic performance
  41. Labor would upgrade NBN to fibre-to-the-premises
  42. Xenophon threatens massive retaliation against any Lib-Lab deal against him
  43. ALP uses Bob Hawke to boost its campaigning on health
  44. Signals from the noise of urban innovation in the world's 'second-least-liveable' city
  45. Bill Shorten's savings package looks a little desperate
  46. Labor searches for savings amid family benefits reform
  47. Labor finds $16 billion more savings to put on the table
  48. White Bay rethink hinges on who looks out for the public interest in remaking Sydney
  49. Should we still be choosing fat-free over full-fat products?
  50. We know _why_ bacteria become resistant to antibiotics, but _how_ does this actually happen?

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