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Playing with old phones teaches children good habits, and reflects our bad ones back at us

  • Written by: Jo Bird, Lecturer, University of New England
Playing with old phones teaches children good habits, and reflects our bad ones back at usHard at play: 'technology corner' can teach kids healthy boundaries around device use.Jo Bird, Author provided

Screens are everywhere, including in the palms of our hands. Children see how much time we adults spend on our smartphones, and therefore how much we seem to value these devices – and they want to be a part of it.

Children see us...

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That's a relief! We have a way to recover phosphorus from our urine

  • Written by: Federico Volpin, PhD Fellow, University of Technology Sydney
That's a relief! We have a way to recover phosphorus from our urinePhosphorus was first discovered by boiling down thousands of litres of urine.Shutterstock/Lesterman

To mark the International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements we’re taking a look at some of the elements used by researchers in their work.

Today’s focus is phosphorus, an element that is vital for life but of limited supply....

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live tourist snaps have turned solo adventures into social occasions

  • Written by: Michael James Walsh, Assistant Professor Social Science, University of Canberra
live tourist snaps have turned solo adventures into social occasionsIf you didn't post it, did it even happen? Shutterstock

In the years since selfie sticks went global, it has become clear that the mobile phone has changed the way we travel. The ubiquity of social media means tourists can now produce content on the move for their networked audiences to view in close to real time.

Where once we shared slideshows...

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when the world catches on fire, how do predators respond?

  • Written by: Euan Ritchie, Associate Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
when the world catches on fire, how do predators respond?Some predators, including red foxes, move into burnt areas after fires pass through.Alexandre Roux/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA

2019 might well be remembered as the year the world caught fire. Some 2.9 million hectares of eastern Australia have been incinerated in the past few months, an area roughly the same size as Belgium. Fires in the Amazon, the Arctic,...

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  18. Christians and their problem with sex
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