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Editor's note
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It’s being hailed as one of the biggest events in science for years - the merger of two neutron stars gave astronomers their first chance to see a source of gravitational waves, writes David Blair. As with many breakthroughs, it was a long time in the making, and as some of those astronomers tell us today, Australian observations from our radio telescopes played an important role. And it
almost all came unstuck thanks to a cyber
attack on one of the telescope’s computers.
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Michael Lund
Deputy Science and Technology Editor
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Top story
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A supercell thunderstorm in the US state of Oklahoma.
Hamish Ramsay
Martin Singh, Monash University
The amount of atmospheric energy available to thunderstorms will increase in response to climate change, putting the tropics and subtropics at risk of being lashed with more intense storms.
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Business + Economy
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Darryn Snell, RMIT University; Victor Gekara, RMIT University
While previous auto plant closures have seen many workers become long term unemployed, but firms, unions and the government have worked hard to retrain and transition workers.
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Phil Lewis, University of Canberra
The parliamentary budget office expects Australians to be paying significantly higher average tax rates in 2020/21, but their assumptions bear no relation to reality.
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Politics + Society
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Kumuda Simpson, La Trobe University
Donald Trump's base appears to remain loyal to him, even though he has so far failed to deliver on any of their key concerns.
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Chelsea Bond, The University of Queensland
Despite the promise of Black Lives Matter, it has not been taken up as a central political movement by Indigenous Australians.
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Health + Medicine
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Alessandro R Demaio, University of Copenhagen
Sure, you have to die of something, but you may not have to die so soon - and you could be healthier, wealthier and happier in the meantime.
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Rebekah Boynton, James Cook University; Anne Swinbourne, James Cook University
There are two schools of thought to explain people's height phobias: evolutionary and behavioural.
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Education
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Kim Wilson, Macquarie University; Garry Falloon, Macquarie University
A report has discovered that while students born after 1980 have good digital skills, they need to think more critically about what they read online.
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Cities
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Billie Giles-Corti, RMIT University; Jonathan Arundel, RMIT University
Governments, developers and urban planners all aspire to create liveable cities. Yet when it comes to Australian cities, the rhetoric and reality don’t quite match.
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Catherine Brown, Swinburne University of Technology
A decade after Toronto produced the first Vitals Signs report, community foundations in Melbourne and other cities are using these reports' up-to-date data to inform their decisions.
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Arts + Culture
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Scott Davie, University of Sydney
Sergei Rachmaninoff fled the Russian revolution 100 years ago. Spending the remainder of his life in the US, he composed what is perhaps his greatest work in 1940, the Symphonic Dances.
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Science + Technology
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David Blair, University of Western Australia
Astronomers have finally confirmed the source of the latest detected gravitational waves was the collission of a pair of neutron stars, what they'd been searching for all along.
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Tara Murphy, University of Sydney; David Kaplan, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
All it took was a single email alert to send the world's astronomers searching for the source of the latest gravitational wave detected.
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David Coward, University of Western Australia; Eric Howell, University of Western Australia
Efforts to see the afterglow from a neutron star merger were nearly thwarted by bad weather and a cyber attack on an Australian telescope.
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Paul Henman, The University of Queensland
Governments must stop thinking that owning as much data as possible is the only way to protect national security and prevent crime.
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Andrew Jakubowicz, University of Technology Sydney
Racism thrives online because of a clash between the commercial goals and ethical responsibilities of social media companies. But Australia can take legal and civil actions right now to address this.
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Environment + Energy
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
The government is set to unveil its long-awaited energy plan that would scrap subsidies for renewables and impose obligations on power companies to source a certain proportion of "reliable" supply.
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Michael Vardon, Australian National University
Is Australia undervaluing its most valuable natural asset by only charging $6.50 a day to visit the Great Barrier Reef? And would it help if tourists were asked to pay more?
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