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Young blood: magic or medicine?

  • Written by: David Irving, Adjunct Professor, University of Technology Sydney
Young blood: magic or medicine?Blood has always been a symbol of life and has been thought to counteract the ageing process.Mai Lam/The Conversation NY-BD-CC, CC BY-SA

IN DEPTH: In this longer essay, David Irving and Alison Gould explore our cultural obsession with young blood and whether there’s any scientific evidence that transfusions of it can delay the ageing process.


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Construction yet to slow down with a cooling housing market

  • Written by: Richard Holden, Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW

Vital Signs is a weekly economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the data affecting global economies.

This week: An update on the so-called “Trump trade war” and what may be to come for construction.


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Australia's draft 'Strategy for nature' doesn't cut it. Here are nine ways to fix it

  • Written by: Euan Ritchie, Associate Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University

Australia arguably has the worst conservation record of any wealthy and politically stable nation. Since European arrival roughly 230 years ago, 50 animal and 60 plant species have gone extinct, including the loss of some 30 native mammals – roughly 35% of global mammal extinctions since 1500.

These are not just tragedies of the distant past...

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Partnerships between universities and arms manufacturers raise thorny ethical questions

  • Written by: Alex Edney-Browne, PhD Candidate, International Relations, University of Melbourne
Partnerships between universities and arms manufacturers raise thorny ethical questions

The Australian government is undertaking its biggest defence build-up since the second world war. Research partnerships between Australian universities and defence industries raise major ethical concerns, and may be at odds with the principles of academic freedom.

In its 2016 Defence White Paper, the Australian government committed to an 81%...

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