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How can I get some sleep? Which treatments actually work?

This article is the next in The Conversation’s six-part series on insomnia, which charts the rise of insomnia during industrialisation to sleep apps today. Read other articles in the series here.

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A New Aus Study Confirms Negative Comments From Your Mum Can Lead To Toxic Body Image Issues

“These findings demonstrate how important mothers and sisters are, highlighting the need to promote positive body image and model a healthy relationship with the body within the home."

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South Australia’s oldest European shipwreck at risk from the forces that uncovered it

Researchers call for urgent stabilisation efforts so the ship, which brought settlers to the state in 1836 and was used in whaling, can be studied

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Doggy Detectives Could Provide Vital DNA Evidence

Investigators may need to consider dogs as a vector for indirect transfer of human DNA within particular scenarios.

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Intake to the National Institute of Circus Arts has been ‘paused’. Where to next for Australia's performing arts training?

The 2024 intake into the Bachelors-level degree at the National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA) has been “paused”, reportedly on the grounds of financial viability and “strategic alignment” with Swinburne University, which has auspiced NICA since 1995.

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Minors bypass age restrictions to access dating apps

A Flinders University study has found children as young as 12 are bypassing age restrictions so they can access dating apps on the internet.

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Sierra Leone has been at peace for 20 years after a brutal civil war - what went right

Sierra Leone’s June 2023 parliamentary elections are the fifth since the end of the civil war in 2002.

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Ancient Indigenous cutting tools found off WA coast

Indigenous leaders are urging increased funding for cultural dives, with 9000-year-old Aboriginal cutting tools discovered off the coast of Western Australia.

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Mysterious rock art painted by Aboriginal people depicts Indonesian warships, study suggests

Archaeologists may have solved the mystery of the origins of two boat paintings detailed inside a cave in Australia.

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Meet the biggest and most bizarre skink ever found in Australia. It became extinct 47,000 years ago

Many of the giant marsupials and birds that roamed ancient Australia had vanished by 40,000 years ago. While the duration and drivers of these extinctions remain debated, fossils clearly show the continent lost a host of creatures which would have dwarfed humans, such as short-faced kangaroos, diprotodons, “thunder birds” and…

The Conversation

We’ve created a new lens that could take thermal cameras out of spy films and put them into your back pocket

Like something out of a spy movie, thermal cameras make it possible to “see” heat by converting infrared radiation into an image. They can detect infrared light given off by animals, vehicles, electrical equipment and even people – leading to specialised applications in a number of industries.

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Dog fence affects growth rate of young red kangaroos exposed to dingoes, research finds

An unexpected discovery when comparing the head shapes and teeth of red kangaroos inside and outside the Australian dog fence has been made by researchers, with one group growing up quicker.

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Quarter-ton marsupial that ambled across Australia 3.5 million years ago was 'unlike anything alive today'

The newly described extinct species is closely related to the largest marsupial to ever roam the Earth.

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A new virtual museum reveals 600 million years of Australian fossils in unprecedented 3D detail

Palaeontology is the study of evolution and prehistoric life, usually preserved as fossils in rocks. It combines aspects of geology with biology and many other scientific disciplines.

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Newly described enormous marsupial wandered across Australia 3.5 million years ago

In the early Pliocene, 5.4 to 3.6 million years ago, Australia had a greenhouse climate, widespread forests and diverse marsupial animals.

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Newly described enormous marsupial wandered great distances across Australia 3.5 million years ago

Today, 80% of Australia is arid, but it was not always that way. In the early Pliocene, 5.4 to 3.6 million years ago, Australia had a greenhouse climate, widespread forests and diverse marsupial animals.

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Meet Australia’s first long-distance walker: a 250kg marsupial with ‘heeled hands’

Creatures dubbed the ambulator roamed across the continent’s arid interior 3.5 million years ago, scientists say

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Autistic women and girls missing out on support due to male-skewed diagnostic tools, research finds

Autism diagnoses are rising, but researchers say autistic girls and women are going under the radar, because diagnostic tools have been designed around how it manifests in males.

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Archaeologists say Moluccan boats depicted in Arnhem Land rock art, solving mystery

Researchers from Flinders University publish findings suggesting the art depicts ships from the Maluku Islands in Indonesia, which could have reached Australian shores prior to colonisation.

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Cranberry juice UTI 'myth' upheld by new study that has 'proved mum right'

Cranberry juice's merits for have been much debated, but one new study has found it can reduce the risk of repeat UTIs.

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Cranberry juice really does relieve cystitis, scientists have found

What is more, it can cut the risk of a repeat infection by 53 per cent for those who are susceptible

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Scientists say new 3D mapping of West Arnhem flood plain could be a 'game changer'

Scientists say they've discovered huge sandstone escarpments buried under a Northern Territory flood plain, using a technique they say could be a "game changer" for archaeology.

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Remarkable new tech has revealed the ancient landscape of Arnhem Land that greeted Australia’s First Peoples

Many visitors to Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory are struck by the magnificent cliffs, stunning bird life and extraordinary rock art. Some may know this landscape includes the earliest evidence of human occupation in what is now Australia, at Madjedbebe, where signs of habitation have been dated to 65,000…

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Palaeontologists uncover mystery of marsupial lion bones in Wellington Caves excavation

Researchers delving into Wellington Caves in western NSW say bone fracture patterns indicate that many of them had fallen through a hole in the cave ceiling and remained buried there, waiting to be discovered.

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Cranberry juice can be effective in preventing repeat urinary tract infections in some people, review finds

A global review led by Australian scientists finds cranberry juice or supplements can reduce the risk of repeat symptomatic UTIs in some women by more than a quarter, and in children by more than half.

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