The world of business is changing at lightning speed. With customer demands and consumer habits evolving continually, modernization is key. If your business is lagging behind, and you’re keen to ensur...
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The theory is that if therapies are started early enough, it might be possible to alter the trajectory of autism.ShutterstockTherapies given to infants before they receive a diagnosis of autism may le...
Andrew Whitehouse, Bennett Chair of Autism, Telethon Kids Institute, Univeristy of Western Australia, University of Western Australia
The key to an effective team-builiding exercise is understanding a team is a social network built on connections between individuals.www.shutterstock.comSomeone we know recently told us about a team-b...
Julien Pollack, Associate Professor, University of Sydney
Debates about constitutional change in Australia inevitably raise the poor success rate of referendums. Only eight out of 44 attempts have ever succeeded and there has not been a successful constitut...
Anne Twomey, Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Sydney
Some 22% of the worlds' coastlines are exposed to artificial light at night. Emily Fobert, Author providedClownfish achieved worldwide fame following Finding Nemo, but it turns out these fish don&rsqu...
Emily Fobert, Research Associate, Flinders University
Researcher Taimur Ahmed holds the newly designed chip.Author providedWhat better way to build smarter computer chips than to mimic nature’s most perfect computer – the human brain?Being ab...
Sumeet Walia, Senior Lecturer and Vice Chancellor's Fellow, RMIT University
The Queensland treaty process is still in the early stages and negotiations will not begin for several years. But it's still a historic step forward for Indigenous communities.Tracey Nearmy/AAPQueensl...
Harry Hobbs, Lecturer, University of Technology Sydney
A 'revenge body' is built to show someone how well you are doing without them. With the advent of social media the phenomenon is increasingly popular.ShutterstockMonths after a public breakup with her...
Mair Underwood, Lecturer in Anthropology and Sociology, The University of Queensland
Guidelines advise children under two shouldn't have any screen time, but most do anyway.Photo by Jelleke Vanooteghem on UnsplashMost (80%) Australian parents worry children spend too much time with sc...
Brittany Huber, Postdoctoral researcher, Swinburne University of Technology
Whether sex therapy should be a funded disability support has been controversial since the NDIS was rolled out.From shutterstock.comThe Administrative Appeals Tribunal recently granted a woman with mu...
Matthew Yau, Adjunct professor, College of Healthcare Sciences, James Cook University
Last week on this podcast we talked to Ken Wyatt about the government’s plan for a referendum – hopefully this parliamentary term – to recognise Indigenous Australians in the Constit...
Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The key to an effective team-builiding exercise is understanding a team is a social network built on connections between individuals.www.shutterstock.comSomeone we know recently told us about a team-b...
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Heavily built-up areas can experience more disastrous damage in an earthquake.AP Photo/Marcio Jose SanchezOn July 4 and 5, two major earthquakes, followed by several thousand smaller ones, struck Sout...
Matt Motta, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Oklahoma State University
It's the case of the missing 'a.'Nick Lehr/The Conversation via NASA, CC BY-SAOn July 20, 1969, an estimated 650 million people watched in suspense as Neil Armstrong descended a ladder towards the sur...
Melissa Michaud Baese-Berk, Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Oregon
Water rushes through a breached levee on the Arkansas River in Dardanelle, Ark., May 31, 2019.Yell County Sheriff's Department via APNew Orleans averted disaster this month when tropical storm Barry d…
People living in Vietnam today may still feel the effects of the war.Kylie Nicholson/shutterstock.comHistory often focuses on the immediate death toll of war. But hostilities can have longer-term cons…
Between 1990 to 2015, nearly half of all migrants worldwide went back to their country of birth, whether by choice or by force.ShutterstockEscaping violence, war, poverty and environmental disaster, m…
Winter is just round the corner and,if you are not already,you should be preparedfor the low temperatures, games and free time in the open air. Winter does not mean not being fashionable or spend se…
Bluey is not just a TV success story - it also contains important parenting wisdom. IMDBBluey is a ground-breaking Australian children’s television series and the most downloaded show in ABC iVi…
The teeth in these _Australopithecus africanus_ skulls contain important evidence about the nutrition of these individuals as they grew up. Renaud Joannes-Boyau, Author providedHumans’ distant a…
Target, Cotton On, Jeanswest, Dangerfield, IKEA and H&M are among the brands in Australia sourcing cotton from Xinjiang.www.shutterstock.comWith China’s western-most province of Xinjiang bei…
It's quicker to use hand sanitiser than soap and water, which means people might be more likely to use it. ShutterstockThis year’s flu season is off to an early start, with 144,000 confirmed cas…
Power failure. It's gas, not wind, that's pushing up electricity prices.ShutterstockWholesale prices in the National Electricity Market have climbed significantly in recent years. The increase has coi…
One in eight disability support claims rejected are because the applicant is unable to supply the requested information.ShutterstockThe 2019 Australian Conference of Economists is taking place in Melb…
Endangered species are living happily in rice fields. Bitterns in Rice/Matt Herring, Author providedThe debate around the Murray-Darling Basin is often sharply polarised: irrigation is destroying the …
Many commuters already travel from regional cities to work in capital cities like Melbourne so what impacts will fast rail have?Alpha/Flickr, CC BY-NCGovernments are looking to fast rail services to r…
People do live outside Earth – on the International Space Station! But humans have had to find a way to make the conditions there more like what we’re used to at home. Flickr/NASA's Marsha…
When protesters took to the streets in Hong Kong, China's state media had several tactics for how to describe it: some outlets ignored it, while others railed against 'extremists'.Jerome Favre/AAPAs C…
The ancestral population of modern humans appears to have split as it moved across Asia.ShutterstockAround 55,000-50,000 years ago, a population of modern humans left Africa and started on the long tr…
Was velociraptor a feathered friend? Here's one artist's impression. ShutterstockCurious Kids is a series for children. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiousk…
Prosecutors should be required to consult forensic linguistic experts on cases involving voice evidence, rather than solely relying on 'ad hoc' experts.ShutterstockA few months ago, I received a call …
Drips and other medical devices were potential sources of infection. But no-one expected to find hospital-acquired pneumonia and urinary tract infections.from www.shutterstock.comMost people expect ho…
Target, Cotton On, Jeanswest, Dangerfield, IKEA and H&M are among the brands in Australia sourcing cotton from Xinjiang.www.shutterstock.comWith China’s western-most province of Xinjiang bei…
One in eight disability support claims rejected are because the applicant is unable to supply the requested information.ShutterstockThe 2019 Australian Conference of Economists is taking place in Melb…
Power failure. It's gas, not wind, that's pushing up electricity prices.ShutterstockWholesale prices in the National Electricity Market have climbed significantly in recent years. The increase has coi…
Mars should be the next destination for humankind.Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock.com“Hidden Figures” and “First Man” were arguably the most inspirational space-themed movies of the l…
Behrouz Kamalvandi, left, spokesman for Iran's atomic energy agency, listens to a man wearing a surgical mask, an official with the Ahmadi Roshan nuclear site in Natanz, Iran, during a news conference…
Fifty years ago, on July 20, 1969, humans stepped onto another celestial body and into history.NASAAt an International Astronomical Union meeting in 1955, noted astronomer Gerard Kuiper asked for sugg…
For now, it's going to be trickier for the University of California community to access some academic journals.Michelle/Flickr, CC BY-NC-NDThis month, academic publisher Elsevier shuttered the Univers…
Lithium-ion batteries power lots of different kinds of devices.Transport CanadaThe smartphone era is only just over a decade old, but the pocket-sized computers at the heart of that societal transform…
Midlife is one of the least understood, appreciated and studied life stages.Sarah2/Shutterstock.comThe way my mom imagined it, midlife was going to be great: counting down days until retirement, spend…
Students protest Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy's budget cuts at the University of Alaska, Anchorage campus.The Alaska Landmine, CC BY-SAAlaskans will soon confront the dramatic effects of Republican Gov. …
The impact of the flu on a population can be measured by looking at figures including cases, hospitalisations and deaths.From shutterstock.comFrom early this year it’s been apparent the 2019 Aus…
This has been an exciting, sad and fascinating year for Health and Medicine. The Conversation has followed, as well as led, some of the coverage. Take our 2017 quiz to see how much you can remember.
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