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Ancient stone tools found on Sulawesi, but who made them remains a mystery

  • Written by: Adam Brumm, ARC Future Fellow, Griffith University
Ancient stone tools found on Sulawesi, but who made them remains a mysteryLimestone 'tower' karst region of Maros in the south of Sulawesi, where Leang Burung 2 is located.D.P. McGahan , Author provided

Another collection of stone tools dating back more than 50,000 years has been unearthed on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. Details of the find, at a rock-shelter known as Leang Burung 2, are described in our paper out...

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Response to rumours of a Chinese military base in Vanuatu speak volumes about Australian foreign policy

  • Written by: Michael O'Keefe, Senior Lecturer of International Relations, La Trobe University
Response to rumours of a Chinese military base in Vanuatu speak volumes about Australian foreign policyReports that China plans to build a military base in Vanuatu seem to have little substance at this stage.EPA/Jerome Favre

Rumour has it that Vanuatu has agreed to a Chinese request to establish a military base. The substance of this rumour is highly speculative at the least and disingenuous at most. Regardless of the truth, the fact that it raises...

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How Beethoven's 'mistake' became one of our most famous tunes

  • Written by: Scott Davie, Piano tutor and Lecturer, Sydney Conservatorium Music, University of Sydney
How Beethoven's 'mistake' became one of our most famous tunesBeethoven monument on the Beethovenplatz square in Vienna, Austria. The monument was unveiled in 1880.Shutterstock, CC BY-NC-SA

In our series Decoding the music masterpieces, music experts explain key works of classical music.


Without question, the final movement of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony contains one of the most famous tunes ever written....

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Captured! Radio telescope records a rare 'glitch' in a pulsar's regular pulsing beat

  • Written by: Jim Palfreyman, PhD candidate in astronomy, University of Tasmania
Captured! Radio telescope records a rare 'glitch' in a pulsar's regular pulsing beatThe Vela pulsar makes about 11 complete rotations every second, it also has a glitch.X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ of Toronto/M.Durant et al; Optical: DSS/Davide De Martin

Pulsars are rapidly rotating neutron stars and sometimes they abruptly increase their rotation rate. This sudden change of spin rate is called a “glitch” and I was part of a...

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  10. Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook apology is the linguistic equivalent of 'shit happens'
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  12. Newspoll not all bad news for Turnbull as Coalition's position improves
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