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Discovery of carbon on Mercury reveals the planet's dark past

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageThis enhanced colour image shows the traces of carbon on the surface, coloured here in blue.NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington

Mercury has been found to have a dark side with graphite, a crystalline form of carbon commonly found in pencils, being the source of the mysterious dark colouration...

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Explainer: what happens to your skin when you get sunburnt?

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor

Most Australians are familiar with the painful red skin, blisters and peeling that follow too much time in the sun. Last summer, 2.4 million Australian adults were getting sunburnt each weekend.

But what’s actually happening in the skin during a sunburn?

DNA damage

Sunburn is a radiation burn, caused when the ultraviolet (UV) rays of sunlight da...

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Speaking with: Lucy Turnbull on the Greater Sydney Commission

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor

In late 2015, the Greater Sydney Commission was established to oversee metropolitan planning and development in Sydney. The commission is intended to function as a partnership between state and local governments, with both the power to create overarching planning proposals and the mandate to work with local governments on local planning controls.

NS...

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  2. Pushing back against the politicisation of economic modelling
  3. If planners understand it's cool to green cities, what's stopping them?
  4. Hidden housemates: the Australian redback spider
  5. George Brandis was never going to get what he wanted from his 'freedoms' inquiry
  6. Barney Glover: The time has come for a national agreement on the future of higher education
  7. Explainer: the exciting new genre of the audio-visual film essay
  8. Gone is the solitary genius – science today is a group effort
  9. Why counting dead bodies in Syria is fraught with politics and imprecision
  10. Universities Australia calls for certainty in higher education funding
  11. Alan Alda on the art of science communication: 'I want to tell you a story'
  12. Same-sex couples and their children: what does the evidence tell us?
  13. 'Girls Make Your Move' exercise ads look good but are unlikely deliver on their own
  14. A new index for economic uncertainty: nothing to fear but fear itself
  15. Skin deep: should Australia consider name-blind resumes?
  16. Australia's coal mines are pouring methane gas into the atmosphere
  17. Antarctica's blue whales are split into three distinct populations
  18. Explainer: what is differentiation and why is it poorly understood?
  19. The way things are heading, it will be a let down if we aren't voting on July 2
  20. Maria Sharapova's positive drug test: what is it and what does it mean for her?
  21. Negative gearing changes won't drive all investors from the housing market – here's why
  22. We need a fairer system for deciding rain-affected games in Twenty20 cricket
  23. Our electricity network regulation is in trouble
  24. Queer wars: the best place to start promoting gay rights is at home
  25. Parents have the biggest influence over their child's language and emotional development
  26. ASIC v ANZ rate-rigging case will be one of epic proportions
  27. Women in the porn industry need rights and proper pay, not token gestures
  28. Explainer: what happens during a heart attack and how is one diagnosed?
  29. How negative-gearing changes can bring life back to eerily quiet suburbs
  30. CommInsure case shows it's time to target reckless misconduct in banking
  31. Feminism has failed and needs a radical rethink
  32. Sex workers of the world unite! How striking French sex workers inspired a global labour movement
  33. Companies prefer ticking boxes to breaking the glass ceiling
  34. We traced the human fingerprint on record-breaking temperatures back to the 1930s
  35. The evidence is in: greater gender diversity in science benefits us all
  36. Two years on since flight MH370 disappeared and the search has found nothing: what now?
  37. Who really benefits from freedom of speech?
  38. Why is it so hard to recruit good maths and science teachers?
  39. Jupiter returns as king of the night sky
  40. Government-Labor again 50-50 in Newspoll
  41. Morrison will fight same-sex marriage
  42. Abbott and Credlin and the death of a prime ministership
  43. Euthanasia: more options doesn't always expand our freedoms, sometimes it limits them
  44. Euthanasia: let's clarify what the law is before we debate changing it
  45. Health Check: what to do if you burn yourself
  46. Chasing ice: how ice cores shape our understanding of ancient climate
  47. Google expands the ‘right to be forgotten’, but Australia doesn't need it
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  49. In the ATAR battle, one thing is clear: teaching needs to attract better recruits
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How Fulfilment Services in Australia Help Businesses Scale Efficiently

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