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The Conversation's editors bring you the most insightful, fascinating, surprising analysis and stories from the academic world. We're asking the experts to bust the myths, explain the scienc...
DAVID CROSLING/AAP Captain James Cook arrived in the Pacific 250 years ago, triggering British colonisation of the region. We’re asking rese...
Uncle Fred Deeral as little old man in the film The Message, by Zakpage, to be shown at the National Museum of Australia in April. Nik Lacha...
Shutterstock In today’s episode, Clare Collins, a Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics at the University of Newcastle, explains how our diet...
AAP/EPA/ANDY RAIN What does the COVID-19 pandemic sound like? For this episode, Dallas Rogers – a senior lecturer in the School of Architect...
What do you need to know about COVID-19 and coronavirus? We asked our readers for their top questions and sought answers from two of Austral...
Shutterstock Are we alone in the Universe? The expert opinion on that, it turns out, is surprisingly consistent. “Is there other life in the...
Shutterstock You’ve heard of dark matter. You’ve probably heard there’s a fair bit of it out there in space, and that astronomers don’t know...
When we are imagining this time, next year, are we limiting our thinking to how we avoid the conditions we faced in this summer? Or are ther...
The Parkes radio telescope can detect extremely weak signals coming from the most distant parts of the Universe. Shutterstock For John Sarki...
Today we hear about some of the fascinating space research underway at Siding Spring Observatory – and how, despite gruelling hours and endl...
Antibiotics can be a wonder for treating bacterial infections – but we need to be cautious in how we use them. From shutterstock.com You mig...
Lithium ion batteries revolutionised the way we use, manufacture and charge our devices. They’re used to power mobile phones, laptops and ev...
Maggots are a major part of the puzzle when it comes to collecting forensic evidence. Shutterstock A few episodes ago, we heard from forensi...
Have you been told by your doctor to consider dropping a few kilos? The good news is that often even a small amount of weight loss can impro...
Are southern-born politicians talking about a state they essentially don't understand? Shutterstock The dust has well and truly settled on S...
Protesters holding umbrellas amid heavy rain march in an anti-government rally in Wan Chai, Hong Kong. AAP/EPA/VIVEK PRAKASH Last weekend, h...
Today, we're asking two astrophysicists and a planetary scientist: what's the likelihood we'll be living on Mars or the Moon in future? Pixa...
Research underway at the University of Technology, Sydney's AFTER facility is yielding some surprising new findings about how bodies decompo...
Older private renters are far more likely to experience loneliness than their counterparts in social housing and that loneliness can be acut...
Indian general elections begin April 11. vepar5/shutterstock Here’s an astonishingly large number. Around 900 million Indians are heading to...