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Should I roll my baby back over if she rolls onto her stomach in her sleep?

  • Written by: Rosemary Horne, Associate Professor & Deputy Director, The Ritchie Centre, Monash University
imageWe know babies should always be put to sleep on their backs, but if they roll onto their tummy it depends on their age and capabilities as to whether you should roll them back over.From www.shutterstock.com

The safest place for your baby to sleep is in their own cot in the same room as their parents or adult caregivers. Sound scientific evidence tel...

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Measures to increase cycling in Australia are predicated on failure

  • Written by: Glen Fuller, Associate Professor Communications and Media, University of Canberra
imageCyclists ride in memory of Alberto Paulon who was struck by a person opening a car door on a busy road in Melbourne.Takver/Flickr, CC BY-SA

Cycling bodies Bicycle NSW and the Victorian-based Bicycle Network want laws changed so that people over the age of 12 can cycle on footpaths.

We think this call is a symptom of the spectacular failure of...

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Instead of congratulating ICAN on its Nobel Peace Prize, Australia is resisting efforts to ban the bomb

  • Written by: Ramesh Thakur, Professor of International Relations, Australian National University

Earlier this week in Oslo, the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize was officially given to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), a global campaign that was launched in Melbourne in 2007.

ICAN lobbied to establish a special UN working group on nuclear disarmament, campaigned for the UN General Assembly’s December 2016 resolution to...

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Not just heat: even our spring frosts can bear the fingerprint of climate change

  • Written by: Pandora Hope, Senior research scientist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
imageFrost affected many crops across WA during September 2016.WA Department of Primary Industry and Regional Development

In recent years, scientists have successfully identified the human fingerprint on hot years, heatwaves, and a range of other temperature extremes around the world. But as everyone knows, climate change affects more than just...

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  1. It's official: 2016's Great Barrier Reef bleaching was unlike anything that went before
  2. Australians working in China should expect fallout over questions of political interference
  3. A bubble? We don't even know how to value Bitcoin
  4. Between innocence and experience: the sexualisation of girlhood in 19th century postcards
  5. Structuring thought and imagination brick by brick, Lego is more than child's play
  6. Cutting funding for hospital complications is unlikely to change patient care – here's why
  7. Democrat Doug Jones wins Alabama Senate byelection in stunning upset; Bennelong is tied 50-50
  8. Why we removed an article on the My Health Record
  9. The off-topic Conversation #144
  10. Engineers, philosophers and sociologists release ethical design guidelines for future technology
  11. Westfield's history tracks the rise of the Australian shopping centre and shows what's to come
  12. What the robots of Star Wars tell us about automation, and the future of human work
  13. What is going rotten in the franchise businesses plagued by scandals
  14. Sexting: technology is changing what young people share online
  15. Reporting a few cases of negative side effects from long-acting contraceptives is alarmist and damaging
  16. NAPLAN 2017: results have largely flat-lined, and patterns of inequality continue
  17. Schools are not adequately preparing young Australians to participate in our democracy
  18. Vocational education and training sector is still missing out on government funding: report
  19. The growing skills gap between jobs in Australian cities and the regions
  20. The government is miscounting greenhouse emissions reductions
  21. New Zealand discovery of fossilised 'monster bird' bones reveals a colossal, ancient penguin
  22. Curious Kids: Why do humans not have fur like chimpanzees and gorillas?
  23. Young workers are most likely to use their phones while driving – here's how can we change that
  24. The grim reality of the brothels of Pompeii
  25. Your vagina cleans itself: why vagina cleaning fads are unnecessary and harmful
  26. Surprise! Digital space isn't replacing public space, and might even help make it better
  27. Modern science tackles a biblical secret -- the mystery ingredient in holy incense
  28. Universities spend millions on accessing results of publicly funded research
  29. Here's looking at Rachel Ruysch’s Still life with flowers in a glass vase
  30. How conservatives use identity politics to shut down debate
  31. Lucky winner: why this beach in WA claims the crown of Australia's whitest sand
  32. Should we eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper?
  33. Dastyari quits the Senate after pressure over his China links
  34. Instead of rebuilding stadiums, the NSW government should focus on local sport and events
  35. As costs mount, the government should abandon the Cashless Debit Card
  36. Older people now less likely to fall into poverty
  37. Three reasons Australians should be concerned that NGOs' voices are not being heard
  38. Facebook's new Messenger Kids app could be good for digital literacy
  39. Debauchery on the fatal shore: the sex lives of Australia's convicts
  40. Social media can be bad for youth mental health, but there are ways it can help
  41. Tasmanian tigers were going extinct before we pushed them over the edge
  42. Charity regulators should not assume that donors always know best
  43. The 'utopian' currency Bitcoin is a potentially catastrophic energy guzzler
  44. Bitcoin may be reaching new heights, but the ASX shows the blockchain is reinventing business
  45. Why simple school sores often lead to heart and kidney disease in Indigenous children
  46. Two Labor frontbenchers urge Sam Dastyari to consider his position
  47. Politicians, stop pitching to the 'average' Australian; being middle class depends on where you live
  48. Riding in cars with dogs: millions of trips a week tell us transport policy needs to change
  49. Despite the election hype, some of the media attention on One Nation was justified
  50. From robots to board games, it's easy to do science this Christmas

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