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GM crops: to ban or not to ban? That’s not the question

A government-commissioned report estimated that South ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥â€™s ban on genetically modified crops cost canola growers A$33 million since 2004.
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Curious Kids: why do we cry?

Most people cry when they’re feeling sad, or when they are having big feelings.
Poor housing leaves its mark on our mental health for years to come

The damaging effects of housing disadvantage on people’s mental health can persist even years after their housing situation improves.
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Southeast Asia was crowded with archaic human groups long before we turned up

The ancestral population of modern humans appears to have split as it moved across Asia.
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Peter Dutton is whipping up fear on the medevac law, but it defies logic and compassion

The medevac law was passed to streamline the process for emergency medical evacuation of refugees from Manus Island and Nauru.
A giant species of trilobite inhabited ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n waters half a billion years ago

A fossil of the giant new trilobite species Redlichia rex.
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NASA and space tourists might be in our future but first we need to decide who can launch from ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, US, May 2019.
Fixing ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥â€™s extinction crisis means thinking bigger than individual species

The endangered Cumberland Plain Woodland is an ecological community that have shrunk to 6% of their original area.