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Ancient bacteria from 5,000-year-old ice reveals clues to fighting superbugs

A team of Romanian scientists drilled a 25-metre ice core from the Scǎrișoara Cave in search of clues for developing new medicines. The 5,000-year-old ice yielded samples of ancient bacteria.

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‘Not met their duty of care’: new report finds racism is widespread at Australian unis

Racism is a “widespread” and “systemic” problem in Australian universities, a major new report has found. According to the Australian Human Rights Commission, about 80% of surveyed Indigenous, Chinese, African, Jewish and Middle Eastern students and staff say they have experienced racism at university.

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Australia has ruled out repatriation for ISIS families. This isn’t a safe or coherent plan

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said his government will not help repatriate the 34 Australian women and children with links to Islamic State fighters who were released from a detention camp in Syria and are reportedly trying to return to Australia.

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How Bad Bunny’s power pole dance spotlighted the colonial legacy of energy poverty

When Bad Bunny and his dancers scaled power poles during his Super Bowl performance, he wasn’t just entertaining millions. He was spotlighting how Puerto Rico’s chronic power outages are a legacy of its colonisation.

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Intermittent fasting doesn’t have an edge for weight loss, but might still work for some

Intermittent fasting has become a buzzword in nutrition circles, with many people looking to it as a way to lose weight or improve their health.

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Make Japan strong again: Sanae Takaichi’s plan to transform her country’s military

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and her ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) got a historic landslide victory in last week’s parliamentary elections.

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A legacy to challenge and inspire: farewell Lionel Fogarty, poet and activist

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names and images of deceased people. They have been used with permission from Lionel Fogarty’s son Kargun “Moojidi” Fogarty.

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A worker was sacked over his side hustle. Here are 5 tips for employees with second gigs

A recent case before the Fair Work Commission has revealed the limits of being able to work a second job when you are employed full time.

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After ‘code brown’, how long before the pool is safe again? Water quality experts explain

There’s little worse as a pool lifeguard than hearing the words “code brown” come through your radio. For swimmers on a hot day, there’s also little worse than being told to immediately get out of the water because there’s poo floating in the pool.

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More police and surveillance won’t prevent the next school tragedy

I’m still processing the devastating mass school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. Like many people across the country, I’m thinking about the families and communities directly impacted while trying to anticipate next steps.

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Part star, part supporting actor, Robert Duvall lit up 1970s American cinema – and kept going

Robert Duvall, who has died at the age of 95, will be remembered for a glittering career that saw him appear in two of American cinema’s most iconic films. But let’s not forget the other hundred or so more across a career spanning six decades.

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Beyond the beaches, Wellington’s catastrophic sewage spill could be bad news for coastal ecosystems

Public concern over the total failure of the Moa Point wastewater treatment plant on Wellington’s south coast has been growing, despite this week’s announcement of an independent review.

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Warming winters are disrupting the hidden world of fungi – the result can shift mountain grasslands to scrub

When you look out across a snowy winter landscape, it might seem like nature is fast asleep. Yet, under the surface, tiny organisms are hard at work, consuming the previous year’s dead plant material and other organic matter.

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A history of assassination reveals how ‘targeted killings’ became an extension of state power

In November 2012, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) took to Twitter – as it was then – to announce it had killed Ahmed al-Jabari, chief of the al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s military wing in Gaza.

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Are the costumes for Wuthering Heights accurate? No. Are they magnificent? Absolutely yes

Even before the film’s release, the costumes for Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights caused controversy.

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Amazon’s Ring wanted to track your pets. It revealed the future of surveillance

As a career counterintelligence officer for the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Defense Intelligence Agency, I worked inside a fully integrated intelligence system.

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What causes depression? What we know, don’t know and suspect

Depression is a complex and deeply personal experience. While almost everyone has periods of sadness, low mood or grief, depression is different. Major depressive disorder is persistent, interferes with day-to-day activities, and can affect work, life and relationships.

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55,000 extra social housing homes are being built. But a new study shows that boom still falls short

Thanks to an unprecedented lift in public funding in the 2020s, an extra 55,000 new, good quality homes around Australia will be available to people on the lowest incomes by 2030. That’s almost triple the increase of 20,000 homes in the previous decade.

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Play reduces stress and lifts wellbeing – and adults benefit as much as children do

Somewhere along the way to adulthood, time to play fades away. We tend to trade silliness and imagination for seriousness and busyness.

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Ski mountaineering is making its Winter Olympics debut at Milano Cortina 2026

The 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Milan and Cortona d'Ampezzo in northern Italy feature eight new medal events and one new official sport: ski mountaineering, or “skimo.”

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In his Munich speech, Marco Rubio balanced loyalty to Trump with reassurances to Europe

When the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, delivered a speech at Europe’s biggest security conference in the German city of Munich on February 14, leaders from across the continent were relieved by its content. In contrast to the previous year, when US vice-president J.D. Vance had launched a scathing…

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Weight-loss drug ‘support supplements’: do they address nutrient deficiencies, or are they just another fad?

Weight-loss injections have rapidly moved from specialist clinics to social media feeds and high-street pharmacies. Known as GLP-1 medications, they were originally developed to support those with type 2 diabetes but are now widely used to support weight loss.

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The outrage over the Enhanced Games ignores the risks many already accept in sport

The Enhanced Games, slated to commence in May 2026, has sparked outrage across the sporting world. This new competition is the first in history to openly permit performance-enhancing drugs, and sporting bodies aren’t happy about it.

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How blast waves can damage the brain without a head injury

An explosion does not need to strike the head to injure the brain. When a blast occurs, it generates a sudden pressure wave that can pass through the body and skull in milliseconds, potentially deforming brain tissue and blood vessels along the way.

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Is social media addictive? How it keeps you clicking and the harms it can cause

For years, big tech companies have placed the burden of managing screen time squarely on individuals and parents, operating on the assumption that capturing human attention is fair game.

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