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Editor's note
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Individual socks, plasticware lids and workplace teaspoons – where do they all go?
In 2005, frustrated researchers designed a study to measure the loss of teaspoons from their institute tearooms – and published their findings in a top medical journal. The article is notable not just for its sense of fun and its results (yes, teaspoons do indeed go missing) but also, as presented by researcher Peta King, it’s a fantastic example of a longitudinal study design.
This story opened our new series This is research, where we ask academics to share and discuss open access articles that reveal important aspects of science.
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Sarah Keenihan
Section Editor: Science + Technology
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Top story
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Teaspoons seem to have legs.
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Peta King, South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute
Once upon a time, a group of disheartened scientists found their tearoom bereft of teaspoons. They explored the problem with a longitudinal study design.
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A group of people with something in common is called a ‘cohort’ in research.
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Tiffany Gill, University of Adelaide
Cohorts, or groups of people, are followed over time in longitudinal studies – imagine the study subjects marching forward together through the years, like a group of soldiers.
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Education
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Michaela Pascoe, Victoria University; Alexandra Parker, Victoria University
The exam period can be a stressful time for students. Here are a few strategies to help students cope.
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Anita Collins, University of Canberra; Misty Adoniou, University of Canberra
Learning music in the early years of schooling can help children learn to read.
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Business + Economy
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Brendan Coates, Grattan Institute; John Daley, Grattan Institute; Jonathan Nolan, Grattan Institute
Compelling Australians to put even more into super runs the risk of giving them a better standard of living in retirement than they had while working.
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Michael Walker, University of Technology Sydney
Industrial action by Google workers shows collective representation is needed even in what is meant to be the best company in the world.
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Arts + Culture
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Liz Conor, La Trobe University
The image, depicting a group of Indigenous people resisting their enslavement, predates the next oldest image by 75 years.
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Bruce Isaacs, University of Sydney
When it was released in 1999, The Matrix introduced a new type of image: bullet-time. Bruce Isaacs explains why it has become one of the most influential special effects in the history of cinema.
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Health + Medicine
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Alexandra Hansen, The Conversation
Five experts were divided on whether or not we should choose the "light"dairy option.
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Kev Dertadian, Western Sydney University
People who use painkillers for non-medical reasons often justify it as a form of self-medication for legitimate medical diagnoses such as depression, anxiety and stress.
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Environment + Energy
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Tani Khara, University of Technology Sydney
More and more people are adopting plant-based diets in Australia and other western nations. But also seemingly on the rise is resentment towards vegans and vegetarians.
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Cameron Webb, University of Sydney
The forecast arrival of El Niño may mean the east coast of Australia will experience an exceptionally hot and dry summer, but does this mean there will be fewer mosquitoes buzzing about?
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Cities
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Dallas Rogers, University of Sydney; Ilan Wiesel, University of Melbourne
This is the first article in our series, Australian Cities in the Asian Century, which looks at the impact of the rise of China and Chinese migration on our cities.
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Laura Crommelin, UNSW; Chris Martin, UNSW; Laurence Troy, UNSW; Sharon Parkinson, Swinburne University of Technology
Short-term letting via digital platforms benefits some in the market at the expense of others. Closer regulation might be needed in Melbourne and Sydney, where a permissive approach prevails.
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Politics + Society
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Romain Fathi, Flinders University
This year marks 100 years since the fighting stopped in the first world war. The commemoration of the armistice, Remembrance Day, remains potent but is also changing with the times.
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Leah Ruppanner, University of Melbourne
Universal low-cost childcare and workplace flexibility will help mothers return to the workplace and are important investments in the Australian workforce.
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Randa Abdel Fattah, Macquarie University
If Mohamed Kamer Nizamdeen had not been Muslim, it is highly unlikely he would have been imprisoned in a Supermax facility for four weeks on flimsy evidence.
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Science + Technology
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Adam Brumm, Griffith University; Maxime Aubert, Griffith University; Pindi Setiawan, Institut Teknologi Bandung
The cave paintings in Borneo show people and animals and are now thought to be the world's oldest example of figurative art.
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