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Editor's note
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Imagine a murder case with no body and no apparent evidence – where do police start?
With blood-detection dogs, says LaTara Rust. Appropriately trained dogs can reliably sniff out blood remnants, even up to two years after a crime was committed. Forensic odour profiling of blood and human bodies is an important new approach for solving crimes in Australia.
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Sarah Keenihan
Section Editor, Science and Technology
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Top story
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Dogs can reliably sniff out human blood, even after two years of environmental degradation.
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LaTara Rust, University of Technology Sydney; Shari Forbes, University of Technology Sydney
Blood-detection dogs work paw in hand with scientists and Australia's police to solve crimes and missing persons cases.
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Politics + Society
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Denis Muller, University of Melbourne
In the marriage equality debate as in any other, media outlets must balance the right to freedom of speech with the balance of evidence.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Turnbull is an optimist, or so he always tells us, and he'll be looking at how things could all work out for the best in the best of worlds.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
The deputy leader of the Nationals, Fiona Nash, has been found to have dual British nationality.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Pauline Hanson's stunt of wearing a burqa into the Senate on Thursday drew a swingeing attack from George Brandis.
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Amy Maguire, University of Newcastle
The Australian government had and has the power to do things necessary to establish and maintain its immigration detention facility on Manus Island, despite detention violating PNG law.
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Arts + Culture
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Ali Alizadeh, Monash University
Forget Wonder Woman and Batman. The Maid of Orléans - an uneducated, teenage girl who led armies to victory - is a hero for our times.
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Jose Antonio Gonzalez Zarandona, Deakin University; César Albarrán Torres, Swinburne University of Technology
The violence sparked by the removal of Confederate statues in the US shows the ideas that collect around historical monuments. Sometimes it's better to remove them; yet they can be an important way of remembering trauma.
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Cities
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Nick Falkner, University of Adelaide
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Dallas Rogers, University of Sydney
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Health + Medicine
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Suzanne Carroll, University of Canberra
Is pointing out the negative health effects of overweight and obesity "fat shaming"?
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Ray Moynihan
Australian health-care organisations are urging action on treatments of people who don't need them.
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Business + Economy
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Richard Holden, UNSW
The Reserve Bank of Australia is stuck, according to the economic evidence, it has to raise rates but it also should cut.
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Julia Benkert, Swinburne University of Technology
Businesses can use their purchasing power to change the actions of their suppliers and help to eradicate slavery - both in Australia and across the world.
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Environment + Energy
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Rebecca Dunlop, The University of Queensland; Michael Noad, The University of Queensland
Humpback whales are deterred from their migration routes by the noise of air guns used to survey the ocean floor for oil and gas deposits, a new study has found.
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Science + Technology
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Christopher Stanton, Western Sydney University
Robots have a lot to learn from humans when it comes to memory.
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