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Wednesday 12 August 2026
Research and innovation in the spotlight at ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½app National Science Week events
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PRF’s $1.5M boost to fast-track Parkinson’s research at ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½app
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Video didn’t kill the radio star – she’s hosting a podcast
Are we in the midst of a podcasting revolution? Siobhan McHugh comments.Â
Coal was king of the Industrial Revolution, but not always the path to a modern economy
Coal powered the machinery and lit what English poet William Blake described as ‘dark satanic mills’, writes Professor Simon Ville.
A 700,000-year-old fossil find shows the Hobbits’ ancestors were even smaller
New evidence shows hobbits were in Indonesia at least 700,000 years ago, writes Dr Gerrit (Gert) van den Bergh.
Unclear about fairness, Australia’s major parties focus on expediency
Scott Morrison said the government’s changes to superannuation were done in the name of fairness, writes ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½app's Associate Professor Gregory Melleuish.
Don’t hang up yet: the latest study linking mobile phones to cancer has big problems
There is still no firm evidence that mobile phones cause cancer, writes Professor Rodney Croft.
‘Living here will make you fat’ – do we need a public health warning?
Men and women living in areas of highest socioeconomic disadvantage have a 29% higher risk of being obese, write Karen Charlton and Abhijeet Ghosh.