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What are some of the challenges to Mars travel?

  • Written by: Paulo de Souza, Science Leader – Sensor Networks, CSIRO
What are some of the challenges to Mars travel?If you went to Mars, you'd need to be able to survive an extremely punishing environment. This picture, taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, gives you an idea. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell Univ./Arizona State Univ. , CC BY-SA

Curious Kids is a series for children. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to...

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Senate president Scott Ryan launches grenade against the right

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

Senate president Scott Ryan has called out the right within the Liberal party and among commentators, declaring that Liberal voters “don’t want views rammed down their throats”.

In a trenchant critique of federal influences in the rout of the Victorian Liberals, Ryan, a former vice-president of the state division, pointed to the...

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Labor's policy can smooth the energy transition, but much more will be needed to tackle emissions

  • Written by: Frank Jotzo, Director, Centre for Climate Economics and Policy, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University

The Labor party’s energy policy platform, released last week, is politically clever and would likely be effective. It includes plans to underwrite renewable energy and storage, and other elements that would help the energy transition along. Its approach to the transition away from coal-fired power is likely to need more work, and it will...

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Why regulating facial recognition technology is so problematic

  • Written by: Liz Campbell, Francince McNiff Professor of criminal jurisprudence, Monash University
Why regulating facial recognition technology is so problematicThere are many questions over how facial recognition technology can impinge on people's privacy rights and whether it will worsen discrimination in policing practices. Shutterstock

The use of automated facial recognition technology (FRT) is becoming more commonplace globally, in particular in China, the UK and now Australia.

FRT means we can identif...

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  2. avoid, shift, share and improve
  3. Mindfulness can help PhD students shift from surviving to thriving
  4. Why Christians prefer classical music and non-believers like heavy metal
  5. how research works out what really leads to an increased disease risk
  6. Labor's 55-45% Newspoll lead adds to Liberals' weekend of woe
  7. Coalition pares back losses in late counting, as predicted chaos eventuates in upper house
  8. Victorian Labor's thumping win reveals how out of step with voters Liberals have become
  9. Labor has landslide win in Victoria
  10. The latest citizenship-stripping plan risks statelessness, indefinite detention and constitutional challenge
  11. how a dust storm, and hazardous air quality, can harm your health
  12. Building our own warships is Australia's path to the next industrial revolution
  13. Innovation could just mean a better kind of co-operation
  14. What skills does a cybersecurity professional need?
  15. Michelle Grattan on Labor's energy plan, and the government's anti-terrorism measures
  16. In the post-APEC scramble to lavish funds on PNG, here's what the country really needs
  17. does Victoria have Australia's lowest rate of public school funding?
  18. Friday essay: 50 shades of Shakespeare
  19. Why Canada's immigration system has been a success, and what Australia can learn from it
  20. Labor's battery plan – good policy, or just good politics?
  21. No, crying doesn't release toxins, though it might make you feel better... if that's what you believe
  22. Designing cities to counter loneliness? Let's explore the possibilities
  23. do I really need a specific shoe for a specific sport?
  24. Blocking Chinese gas takeover won't damage Australia's foreign investment pipeline
  25. Barley is not a random choice – here's the real reason China is taking on Australia over dumping
  26. Labor's energy policy is savvy – now is it scare-proof?
  27. Aboriginal health messages need to be made with us rather than for us
  28. How Australia’s Mandarin speakers get their news
  29. It’s still worth it for overseas students to study in Australia, but universities could be doing more
  30. China's legalisation of rhino horn trade: disaster or opportunity?
  31. Why we should remember Boorong, Bennelong's third wife, who is buried beside him
  32. Here's a tip that could make banks phenomenally successful: radical honesty
  33. Asians out! Not in this suburb. Not in this apartment
  34. Why Australian retailers should respect the past and rename their 'Black Friday' sales
  35. City water restrictions hurt our most vulnerable – especially women
  36. A decade after the invention of the smartphone, we're about to find out how we use our time
  37. With China-US tensions on the rise, does Australia need a new defence strategy?
  38. It's hard to think about, but frail older women in nursing homes get sexually abused too
  39. It looks like an anchovy fillet but this ancient creature helps us understand how DNA works
  40. Households to get $2000 subsidy for batteries under Shorten energy policy
  41. Where has the joy of writing gone and how do we get it back for our children?
  42. Colonial Australia was surprisingly concerned about Aboriginal deaths in custody
  43. If there's one thing Pacific nations don't need, it's yet another infrastructure investment bank
  44. Fresh urgency in mapping out ethics of brain organoid research
  45. An urgent rethink is needed on the idealised image of the ANZAC digger
  46. How do moths eat our clothes?
  47. the carbon tax that would leave households better off
  48. If you're feeding with formula, here's what you can do to promote your baby's healthy growth
  49. Why adult video stars rely on camming
  50. Why we should worry about Victoria's China memorandum of understanding

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