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Data from more than 600 people shows resting heart rates have their own secret rhythm

You’re likely familiar with the idea of a circadian rhythm – your body’s 24-hour cycle that governs sleep and wakefulness.

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Alice Duncan-Kemp was an empathetic observer of Mithaka culture, but her legacy is complicated

Alice’s dreaming is centrally about the childhood, memories and writings of Alice Duncan-Kemp (1901-1988), who grew up on a pastoral property named Mooraberrie in the first decades of the 20th century.

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A brief history of collage from 12th century Japan to Sydney today – and your own kitchen table

Collage is ancient, with roots going back to the invention of paper in East Asia.

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What are statins? And can healthy people use them to prevent heart disease and dementia?

Every month, around 2.7 million Australians have a statin dispensed to lower their risk of heart attack and stroke.

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Too many students have ‘reading anxiety’. New research suggests it is triggered by problems in primary school

Western Australian author Hamish Kelly has struggled with reading for almost two decades. In his first of two books, he describes his experience of learning to read:

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Australia must double down to meet our climate targets. Our new study shows how

Within the next five years, global warming is set to breach the 1.5°C threshold at the heart of the 2015 Paris Agreement. This will have dire consequences, from rapidly melting ice sheets to ghostly white coral reefs.

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We may be able to turn off the algorithm, but we can’t escape the misogyny of the manosphere

The federal government recently announced a suite of new laws designed to address harmful content on digital platforms.

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Data centres in Australia: your questions answered

Community opposition to large-scale data centres is growing. Critics are calling for a pause on data centre development, in line with other jurisdictions such as New York, but Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has ruled this out.

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Data centres have existed for decades. So why are they so controversial now?

Until recently, data centres attracted relatively little public attention. They were largely treated as invisible pieces of digital infrastructure: essential but rarely discussed outside technical and industry circles.

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Private money is coming to NZ netball. Other sports should be paying close attention

New Zealand’s netball establishment is about to try a very different game plan.

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Caught between culture and commerce: Canada’s high-stakes trade clash with the United States

In recent weeks, Canada’s federal government has taken seemingly contradictory stances on the protection and promotion of Canadian culture.

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Sharing non‑consensual ‘deepfake’ porn in Canada is now a crime. The law still fails the victims

In June 2026, the Canadian government passed a groundbreaking reform of the Criminal Code — the Protecting Victims Act (Bill C-16). This strengthened protections against gender-based violence and, for the first time, made it a crime to share sexual “deepfakes” of a person without their consent.

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How chronic absenteeism shifted in Canadian kindergarten after COVID-19

Kindergarten is an important time in a child’s life, during which children acquire and strengthen the skills needed to participate and learn in a school environment. Going to school regularly is an important part of this.

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Canada’s new strategy won’t solve food insecurity or the health issues it creates

It would be easy to mistake the new National Food Security Strategy as a plan that will reduce food insecurity in Canada. In launching the initiative in June 2026, Prime Minister Mark Carney declared that it was meant to “address structural causes of food insecurity… particularly [for] the most vulnerable.”

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Why the Iranian diaspora is so bitterly divided — in Canada and abroad

Western democracies are currently witnessing a troubling rise in political violence and intimidation within segments of the Iranian diaspora, driven by deepening polarization among opponents of the Islamic Republic.

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View from The Hill: Albanese lashes Hanson over attack on his mother

Anthony Albanese has hit back angrily and emotionally at Pauline Hanson for saying his late mother should not have lived in public housing for decades.

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New world map makes Africa look bigger: what’s the fuss about? Cartographers explain

The UN has passed a non-binding resolution to endorse the Equal Earth Projection, a map which more fairly represents the true size of the Earth’s landmasses. The current commonly used projection, called the Mercator Projection, greatly exaggerates land towards the north and south poles, which makes Africa look much smaller.…

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Africa’s climate services need local detail and knowledge, say people who use the information

Across Africa, people are restoring and managing mangroves, grazing lands and urban green areas in the face of increasing threats from climate change. Increasingly they make decisions based on climate-related information supplied by governments, funders and researchers.

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South Africa has good water laws but bad services. What’s stopping fair access

Water affects almost every part of daily life: drinking, sanitation, food production, health, jobs and the natural environment. Yet in South Africa, three million people don’t have clean running water, and 14 million have no flushing toilets.

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Your memories of how you heard about 9/11 may well be wrong – we’ve been asking the same people what they remember for 25 years

How did you first learn of the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001? Was it your mother’s panicked phone call? Your roommate shaking you awake with the news? The anxious chatter on your commuter train? No matter how you answer, our research suggests you may have around 40% of the details…

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PISA 2025 and school rankings: are we asking the right questions about schooling?

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How anti-bribery laws apply to Trump’s promise of $5,000 payments if Republicans keep control of Congress

In his keynote address to the Republican midterm convention on Sept. 9, 2026, President Donald Trump promised that if Republicans retain control of Congress in November, he would authorize a US$5,000 payment to every American adult.

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Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visit to Canada advanced the interests of both countries

On Sept. 9, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in Calgary with the aim of reinforcing the partnership between Ukraine and Canada.

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A Swedish ghost story

Ghosts in Sweden? It sounds strange to place the supernatural in a country of health-conscious, pragmatic engineers. But even though Swedes readily accept modernity, their popular culture hints at something else.

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