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Editor's note
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We all watched the “historic” handshake yesterday, but what did it really mean? As Benjamin Habib writes, the agreement released by the two leaders following the summit is telling for what it does not say, or at least specify, and there is still some way to go before we have a proper understanding of what the “new US-DPRK relations” will look like and what, if anything, will change.
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Amanda Dunn
Section Editor: Politics + Society
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Top story
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Shepparton residents are clearly disadvantaged by having far fewer daily train services to Melbourne than other regional centres.
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Melanie Davern, RMIT University; Carl Higgs, RMIT University; Claire Boulange, RMIT University; Jonathan Arundel, RMIT University; Lucy Gunn, RMIT University; Rebecca Roberts, RMIT University
Regional areas are expanding, and yet not enough attention is being paid to improving rail access to capital cities. This affects the liveability of the areas.
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Business + Economy
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Hans Hendrischke, University of Sydney; Wei Li, University of Sydney
Interviews with Chinese executives confirm the political debate about China is creating feelings of being unwelcome and apprehensive about investing in Australia.
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Health + Medicine
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Brendan Scott, Murdoch University
You can't know how altitude will affect you until you're up there. Here's why people have different reactions to less atmospheric oxygen.
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Hassan Vally, La Trobe University
The obesity epidemic, the flu epidemic, the opioid epidemic... in the 21st century, everything seems to be an "epidemic". But what does the term actually mean?
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Science + Technology
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Eduardo Velloso, University of Melbourne; Tim Miller, University of Melbourne
A new study shows that eye-trackers in computers and VR headsets enable AI to predict your next move in digital games – and that deception strategies won't work as well on AI as they do on humans.
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Jacinta den Besten, University of Melbourne
To answer this tricky question, we have to look back in time to when the Earth was born, 4.5 billion years ago.
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Simon Driver, University of Western Australia
Australia occupies a unique location vital for supporting NASA and ESA deep-space missions.
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Environment + Energy
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Pete Minard, La Trobe University
Brumbies have a devoted following among high country locals, despite the fact that they were despised by colonial settler farmers. Their mythical status today owes a lot to cultural figures such as Banjo Paterson.
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Dave Frame, Victoria University of Wellington; Adrian Henry Macey, Victoria University of Wellington; Myles Allen, University of Oxford
New research has suggested a fresh way to account for greenhouse gases with different lifetimes in the atmosphere.
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Politics + Society
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Benjamin Habib, La Trobe University
One noticeable omissions was any mention of "complete, verifiable, irreversible denuclearisation" - whether this was strategy or capitulation on President Donald Trump's part remains to be seen.
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Arts + Culture
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Sasha Grishin, Australian National University
All of the big names are present in this show – from Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and Frida Kahlo to Roy Lichtenstein and Cindy Sherman – and represented by some of their best-known work.
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Julie Shiels, RMIT University
In a Journey to Freedom, 13 artists give expression to the experience of imprisonment. In Zero, artists are seeking to escape the past.
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