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Editor's note
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Mars Base Camp is Lockheed Martin’s vision for sending humans to Mars by 2028, and today Elon Musk will update the world on his plans for Mars colonisation at the International Astronautical Congress 2017 in Adelaide.
But what would it really be like to live on Mars? Simulation camps on Earth give us just a few clues, as revealed by Jonathon Clarke’s diary entries after 52 days in the Canadian Artic.
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Michael Lund
Deputy Science and Technology Editor
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Top story
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Anastasiya (left) and myself working on the Haughton crater rim.
Mars Society
Jonathan Clarke, UNSW
Will humans ever live on Mars? Whoever it is to get there first will benefit from the experiences of those who stayed in simulated Martian missions here on Earth.
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Science + Technology
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Jose Torero, The University of Queensland; Kathryn Humphreys, The University of Queensland
Tall buildings are an increasing feature of Australia's city landscapes, although they're still relatively small compared to overseas. But is there a limit on how high we can build?
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Environment + Energy
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Steven Chown, Monash University
As well as thousands of deaths and huge destruction, Japan's 2011 tsunami carried potentially invasive species _en masse_ across an entire ocean.
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Health + Medicine
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Alexander Holden, University of Sydney
Many of the online testimonials you might read for dentists and other health professional can not only mislead, they can be illegal.
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Josephine Chau, University of Sydney; Melody Ding, University of Sydney
A new study has been found that television viewing increases your risk of dying from an inflammatory-related condition like Alzheimer's or Parkinson's disease. But it's more complicated than that.
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Sasha Petrova, The Conversation
This is the full response from lead author, Megan Grace, of the study Television Viewing Time and Inflammatory-Related Mortality published in the journal Medicine and Science in Sport and Exercise.
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Politics + Society
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Terry Goldsworthy
Australia now has more states and territories with specific revenge porn laws than those without. But they may not be the most effective way to tackle the problem.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
A possible risk from Dutton's outburst is if his remarks carry any impact in the US. Talk of people being "economic refugees" might lead the Americans to wonder why they should be taking more.
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Benjamin Habib, La Trobe University
We should interpret the threat posed by North Korea from an informed perspective based on demonstrable strategic logic, rather than on caricatured misrepresentations of its leadership.
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Arts + Culture
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Aaron Corn, University of Adelaide
Dr Joe Gumbula was a master-singer of Manikay, the exquisite Yolŋu tradition of public ceremonial song. While the songs contain incredible knowledge, scholars have rarely treated them as an intellectual tradition.
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Chelsea Barnett, Macquarie University
Hugh Hefner, founder of Playboy magazine, has died age 91. While many have pointed to Playboy's problematic relationship with women, when it first appeared in 1953 the magazine was a challenge to Cold War men.
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Education
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Lesley Neale, Curtin University
Female baby boomers who missed out earlier in life are now jumping at the opportunity to further their education.
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Business + Economy
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Kevin B Sobel-Read, University of Newcastle; Madeleine MacKenzie, University of Newcastle
Australia's insolvency laws inhibit growth and innovation. They weren't designed for small business, which make up 97% of all businesses.
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