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How ancient seafarers and their dogs helped a humble louse conquer the world

  • Written by: Loukas Koungoulos, PhD Candidate, University of Sydney
How ancient seafarers and their dogs helped a humble louse conquer the worldMale (left) and female Heterodoxus spiniger from Borneo.Natural History Museum, London, Author provided

This is the story of how a parasitic, skin-chewing insect came to conquer the world.

For more than a century, scientists have been puzzled as to how an obscure louse native to Australia came to be found on dogs across the world. Heterodoxus...

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Women aren't better multitaskers than men – they're just doing more work

  • Written by: Leah Ruppanner, Associate Professor in Sociology and Co-Director of The Policy Lab, University of Melbourne
Women aren't better multitaskers than men – they're just doing more workScience doesn't appear to support the modern myth that women are super-human multitaskers.From shutterstock.com

Multitasking has traditionally been perceived as a woman’s domain. A woman, particularly one with children, will routinely be juggling a job and running a household – in itself a frantic mix of kids’ lunch boxes,...

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Can Scott Morrison deliver on climate change in Tuvalu – or is his Pacific 'step up' doomed?

  • Written by: Tess Newton Cain, Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Political Science & International Studies, The University of Queensland
Can Scott Morrison deliver on climate change in Tuvalu – or is his Pacific 'step up' doomed?Pacific leaders don't want to talk about China's rising influence – they want Scott Morrison to make a firm commitment to cut Australia's greenhouse gas emissions.Mick Tsikas/AAP

This week’s Pacific Islands Forum comes at an important time in the overall trajectory of Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s very personal commitment to an A...

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First home buyer schemes aren't enough to meet young adults' housing aspirations

  • Written by: Sharon Parkinson, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology
First home buyer schemes aren't enough to meet young adults' housing aspirationsShared houses work well for 82% of people living in them in their early 20s, but only 25% see this as a long-term option.Earlyspatz/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA

Young adults not only struggle to buy a home, many struggle to secure any kind of independent housing. This contributes to a cycle of living in precarious and informal housing and to a growing gap...

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  1. New research shows that Antarctica's largest floating ice shelf is highly sensitive to warming of the ocean
  2. Who am I? Why am I here? Why children should be taught philosophy (beyond better test scores)
  3. 54 million year old fossil flies yield new insight into the evolution of sight
  4. Tighter alcohol licensing hasn't killed live music, but it's harder for emerging artists
  5. Danger close? The battle over the meaning of Long Tan
  6. Australia's tax office can use global data leaks to pursue multinationals, High Court rules
  7. Gold rush-era rules to stop mining pollution are still in use – but they’re failing
  8. Patients have rights. Here's how to use yours
  9. Biden still leads US Democratic primaries, Trump's ratings fall slightly after gun massacres, plus Australian preference flows
  10. what is China's United Front, and how much influence does it have in Australia?
  11. Unwanted sexual attention plagues young women going out at night
  12. How recycling is actually sorted, and why Australia is quite bad at it
  13. Eleanor Anne Ormerod, the self taught agricultural entomologist who tasted a live newt
  14. why plants don't simply grow faster with more carbon dioxide in air
  15. Australia Institute analysis adds to Pacific pile-on over Morrison's climate policy
  16. Morrison needs to take control of China policy
  17. Survey reveals a third of NZ gun owners distrust gun lobby
  18. Hong Kong fears losing its rule of law; the rest of the world should worry too
  19. how genes act differently in male and female brains
  20. young Indigenous Australians want to be heard – but will we listen?
  21. Regulating Facebook, Google and Amazon is hard given their bewildering complexity
  22. on the 'creeping crisis' in the public service
  23. Memory and attention difficulties are often part of a normal life
  24. Why an Australian charter of rights is a matter of national urgency
  25. where did rats first come from?
  26. Snow at the footy? Just how unusual was last weekend’s weather?
  27. Contemporary and medieval women's voices collide in My Dearworthy Darling
  28. coal is on the road to becoming completely uninsurable
  29. Queenslanders are among our heaviest drinkers on nights out, and changing that culture is a challenge
  30. How Indigenous fashion designers are taking control and challenging the notion of the heroic, lone genius
  31. Red tape in aged care shouldn't force staff to prioritise ticking boxes over residents' outcomes
  32. why don't people fall out of bed when they are sleeping?
  33. To restore trust in government, we need to reinvent how the public service works
  34. it’s time whistleblowers had better protection
  35. Australia has too few home-grown experts on the Chinese Communist Party. That's a problem
  36. helping former Colombian guerrilla fighters to become citizen scientists
  37. Here's why there should be no gestational limits for abortion
  38. you're probably worse at it than you realise
  39. Australia urgently needs real sustainable agriculture policy
  40. Dutton directive gives journalists more breathing space, but not whistleblowers
  41. If you have a low ATAR, you could earn more doing a VET course than a uni degree – if you're a man
  42. Here's how tech giants profit from invading our privacy, and how we can start taking it back
  43. Chinese propaganda goes tech-savvy to reach a new generation
  44. Why women are more likely to have dodgy hip implants or other medical devices
  45. Environmental destruction is a war crime, but it's almost impossible to fall foul of the laws
  46. Lessons from Queensland on alcohol, violence and the night-time economy
  47. It's not in the 'national interest' for the backbench to shut up about China
  48. Government tells police to lay off journalists in investigating leaks
  49. Governor Lowe points to even lower rates
  50. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the High Court's free speech ruling

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