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Editor's note
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Just in time for the school holidays, there’s a new superhero movie out.
Spider-Man: Homecoming is the second modern reboot of this particular film franchise, and stars Tom Holland as a young Peter Parker struggling to balance school and being Spider-Man.
Luckily, Parker knows the mathematical formula to calculate acceleration of a pendulum – handy when you’re swinging from buildings on a thin skein of web. The rest of the film holds up reasonably well in science too, explains Michael Milford.
Of course, you could always just watch for escapism and good old-fashioned fun.
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Sarah Keenihan
Section Editor, Science and Technology
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Top story
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Columbia PIctures/Marvel Studios
Michael Milford, Queensland University of Technology; Juxi Leitner, Queensland University of Technology
Peter Parker knows the formula for angular acceleration of a pendulum, and applies his science knowledge with gusto in the latest Spider-Man movie.
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Science + Technology
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Nicholas Archer, CSIRO
Taste dictates most food choices, but there's more to it than just the taste buds on your tongue.
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Greg Austin, UNSW
The Australian Defence Force's new Information Warfare Division will require time and political capital to shape a capable workforce.
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Politics + Society
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Dylan Pickering, University of Sydney
Fantasy sports began as a niche hobby for statistically inclined sports fanatics. But, with the internet, it has evolved into a multi-billion-dollar industry.
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Cities
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Glen Searle, University of Sydney
Financial benefits are behind the development industry’s push for a continuous rapid population growth. But our poorly planned cities are ill-prepared and already struggling.
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Business + Economy
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Chyi Lin Lee, Western Sydney University
The housing market is too volatile to look at prices alone. If you want to understand the housing market you need to look at the wider economy.
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Andrew Frain, Australian National University; Randal Tame, The University of Queensland
Behavioural economics is severely limited in its approach to inequality. Fortunately, other psychological approaches are better suited.
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Michelle Brown, University of Melbourne
Finding the feedback balance is hard. Millennials are seeking more feedback while baby boomers tend to want to get on with the job.
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Arts + Culture
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Meera Atkinson, University of Sydney
Do you read Australia's First Nations writers? If not, why not? The time is well overdue for non-indigenous Australians to engage with the original inhabitants of the country.
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Christine Judith Nicholls, Flinders University; Mary Laughren, The University of Queensland
The theme of this year's NAIDOC week is "Our Languages Matter". Aboriginal languages under threat across Australia. Read a Warlpiri introduction to Dreamtime and The Dreaming.
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Health + Medicine
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Cornelia Koch, University of Adelaide; Travis Wisdom, University of Adelaide
Until we safeguard every child from all forms of violence, opposition to genital cutting will not be an Australian value.
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John Glover, Torrens University Australia
Public health experts traditionally expect that the poorer you are, the more likely you are to be unwell and die before your time. But newly available data on cancer rates show that's not always true.
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Environment + Energy
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Hugh Finn, Curtin University
More than 50 million birds, mammals and reptiles are thought to be killed each year in New South Wales and Queensland by the removal of native vegetation, and planning laws are failing to protect them.
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