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will eating nuts make you gain weight?

  • Written by: Elizabeth Neale, Career Development Fellow (Lecturer), University of Wollongong
will eating nuts make you gain weight?Nuts contain "good" fats.From shutterstock.com

The Australian Dietary Guidelines recommend we eat 30g of nuts – a small handful – each day. But many of us know nuts are high in calories and fat.

So should we be eating nuts or will they make us gain weight?

In short, the answer is yes, we should eat them, and no, they won’t make us...

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what makes a shooting star fall?

  • Written by: Lisa Harvey-Smith, Professor and Australian Government’s Women in STEM Ambassador, UNSW
what makes a shooting star fall?Make a wish!Shuttershock

Curious Kids is a series for children. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskids@theconversation.edu.au You might also like the podcast Imagine This, a co-production between ABC KIDS listen and The Conversation, based on Curious Kids.


What makes a shooting star fall? – Katelyn,...

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Labor's lead narrows to just 51-49 in Ipsos, but is it an outlier?

  • Written by: Adrian Beaumont, Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne
Labor's lead narrows to just 51-49 in Ipsos, but is it an outlier?The latest Ipsos poll has the gap between Labor and the Coalition narrowing to 51-49, but it may be an outlier.AAP/James Ross/Grant Wells

An Ipsos poll conducted for Nine newspapers – previously Fairfax papers – gave Labor just a 51-49 lead, a three-point gain for the Coalition since the last Ipsos poll in mid-December. Primary votes...

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'is it normal to get sore down there after sex?'

  • Written by: Melissa Kang, Associate professor, University of Technology Sydney
'is it normal to get sore down there after sex?'Sex should never hurt.www.shutterstock.com

I Need to Know is an ongoing series for teens in search of reliable, confidential advice about life’s tricky questions. If you’re a teen, send us your questions about sex, drugs, health and relationships, and we’ll ask an expert to answer it for you.


Hi! I only recently have gotten a...

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  3. it's time to end chemical warfare
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  5. Just like HAL, your voice assistant isn't working for you even if it feels like it is
  6. how you are influenced to choose without really knowing it
  7. Labor's lead cut to 51-49% in latest Ipsos poll
  8. Putting babies under general anaesthetic won't affect their development, new research shows
  9. There's little reason for optimism about Closing the Gap, despite changes to education targets
  10. how queer texts could fight homophobia in Australian schools
  11. The glowing ghost mushroom looks like it comes from a fungal netherworld
  12. Michelle Grattan on reopening Christmas Island and One Nation's shenanigans
  13. The Catholic Church is headed for another sex abuse scandal as #NunsToo speak up
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