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From maternal health to influenza rates, gaps in CDC’s public health data are creating dangerous blind spots for disease tracking and prevention

Public health relies on data – whether it is tracking the effectiveness of a given year’s flu vaccine, monitoring blood lead levels around the country or estimating the prevalence of diabetes. This data forms the basis for decisions such as whether a community should expand screening for diabetes and which…

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How to keep your medicines safe during hot weather

When the weather turns hot, most of us remember sunscreen and water. But what about our medicines? Heat can quietly damage medicines, making them less effective or even unsafe. As heatwaves become more common in the UK and globally, knowing how to store medicines properly is becoming essential.

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Le Pen to run for French presidency despite conviction – her protege Jordan Bardella would make a better candidate

Marine Le Pen has confirmed she intends to run in next year’s presidential election in France, despite her appeal against a conviction for embezzlement of EU funds being rejected.

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Florida’s proposed property tax cuts rely on a population boom that has slowed dramatically

From 2020 to 2024, Florida’s population grew by 8.5%, from 21.6 million to 23.4 million.

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The church fathers of early Christianity are showing their swag – on TikTok

It begins with the music: a late 1990s rap song. Then someone appears on screen, moving slowly into a pose that can only be called deeply, theatrically serious. Then comes the reveal: The video fades from the person into a medieval painting of a haloed man doing almost the exact…

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Beyond birds and mice, free-ranging cats eat a surprising number of insects

It’s pretty commonly known, and not very startling, that free-ranging cats eat birds and small rodents. But the degree to which they eat insects might surprise you.

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Surge pricing is broken – but there’s a smarter way to match gig workers with consumers

Millions of Americans tap their smartphone screens daily to order rides, groceries or dinner, hooked on the seamless convenience of the gig economy.

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Ivermectin isn’t a cancer miracle drug, but influencers claim otherwise – here’s how to avoid sprinting past scientific evidence

Though researchers have been studying the animal deworming drug ivermectin for decades, there is no evidence that it’s a safe or effective way to treat cancer in people.

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Fertilizers carry a hidden cost for soil’s crucial microbes – using less as prices rise might pay off for farms in unexpected ways

Across North America, in places such as Illinois, Iowa and Texas, farmers are busy growing the crops the world depends on for food, fuel and fiber.

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With Marine Le Pen’s sentence the judiciary is giving French citizens the final say on her political future

IN BRIEFClick here for the key takeaways Marine Le Pen has announced she will run for president for the fourth time in 2027. The Paris Appeals Court upheld the far right figurehead over misusing EU funds, but shortened her sentence and reduced her ban on holding public office. While France’s…

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What happens inside a tennis player’s brain as they try to return a 148mph serve?

The fastest serve so far at this year’s Wimbledon tennis championships was struck by the Argentinian Thiago Agustín Tirante on the opening day.

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How the British press has undermined the ECHR over many years: new study

The UK’s immigration and asylum bill has proposed restricting how the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) is interpreted and applied in the UK to make it easier to deport migrants.

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Homes need more renewable energy tech – here’s how to make sure retrofits avoid creating e-waste

The UK has some of the oldest houses in Europe. Half of the homes in England are rated below band C on energy performance certificates. This measure rates a property’s energy efficiency from A (most efficient) to G (least efficient), indicating potential energy costs and environmental consequences.

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Politics with Michelle Grattan: Andrew Wilkie on the need to go harder to curb gambling advertising

Gambling is a policy area where there’s a major mismatch between the public and the government.

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Living in a glorified tent: new research shows huge energy gaps between older and newer homes

Every winter, millions of Australians are reminded how hard it is to live comfortably in older homes. Warm air constantly leaks out through poorly insulated ceilings, walls and floors, and through gaps in floors, windows and under doors. Heaters run day and night, sending energy bills soaring.

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Younger Australians show greater interest in Indigenous histories, but know less about them: new research

It has been 50 years since Australia first marked NAIDOC week. Originating in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander political protest and advocacy, the National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee (NAIDOC) describes the celebrations as “an opportunity for all Australians to learn about First Nations cultures and histories”.

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How does a Telstra outage bring down trains? A telco expert explains

Australians woke up this morning to a major outage affecting Telstra, the largest telecommunications network in the country. But mobile phones weren’t the only thing knocked out of action.

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30 years since Dolly the sheep was born, where is cloning technology at now?

When Dolly the sheep – the first cloned mammal – was born 30 years ago, she became one of the most famous animals in science history.

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‘Adaptive reuse’: how contemporary artists reuse and recycle objects to be born again

The buildings we call home, the things we use every day, and the technologies we depend on would quickly become useless without constant repair and maintenance.

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Want to use health insurance in an emergency? Here’s what it does (and doesn’t) cover

Imagine going to a public hospital’s emergency department and a nurse from a private hospital asks you if you want to go to there instead.

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Can picking personal Lotto lines change the odds of winning? We ran the numbers

Many of us know devoted Lotto players who stick to a set of numbers, such as family birth dates, they hold to be personal and unique. But what if hundreds of other players are making exactly the same choices?

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How Trump’s call to FIFA tested the limits of rules-based order

“All I did was ask for a review because I didn’t think it was a foul,” United States President Donald Trump said this week in front of reporters in the Oval Office. He was explaining why he had personally called FIFA President Gianni Infantino to ask that a red card…

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‘We learn off one another and we follow through’: weaving fishing nets with the Aunties

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names of people who have died.

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Food poverty, stress and housing insecurity: what happens when your parent is detained or deported

Emma* was just a baby when her dad was deported following the cancellation of his Australian visa. Now aged seven, she sometimes still sleeps with his photograph. She can’t understand why he doesn’t visit her, or why he can’t pick her up from school.

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Narendra Modi’s visit to Australia will be a display of strategic pragmatism

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives in Melbourne today. This marks his third official visit to Australia, making him the most frequent visiting Indian prime minister in the history of the bilateral relationship.

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