By Art Cotterell, Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney
Interplanetary travel to Mars aboard nuclear-powered spaceships may sound like science fiction – yet NASA is planning to make it a reality.
The Space Reactor-1 Freedom mission is scheduled for launch by December 2028 to explore Mars, with NASA heralding it as “the first nuclear-powered interplanetary spacecraft”.
NASA also has plans to deploy…
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By Angela Jones, Senior Lecturer Access and Equity, Edith Cowan University
High school students can skip exams and do an ‘enabling program’ in years 11 and 12. This can qualify them for certain undergraduate degrees.
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By Catalina A. Musrri, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Marine Biology, University of Sydney
Georgina Wood, ARC Research Fellow in Marine Science, Flinders University
Australia’s Great Southern Reef is built not by coral but by seaweed. The seaweed forests on these rocky reefs stretch more than 8,000 kilometres around southern Australia.
Amid the swaying fronds live seadragons, rock lobsters, giant cuttlefish and southern blue devils. The reef is home to more than 1,500 seaweed species and contributes billions to the economy each year.
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By Judy Ingham, Newsletter Producer, The Conversation
Every day, we publish a selection of your emails in our newsletter. We’d love to hear from you, you can email us at yoursay@theconversation.edu.au.
Monday June 29
Elon’s free islands
“Gina Rinehart wants the Queensland government to GIVE Elon Musk an island so he can launch rockets. GIVE? The richest man in the world needs a handout? Why do these large corporations constantly…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Geneva, Switzerland, February 26, 2024. © 2024 Hannes P Albert/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Photo (Sydney) – Australia has refused to commit to reforms for the incarceration of children, offshore detention of asylum seekers, and phasing out fossil fuels, despite repeated calls to do so from United Nations member countries, Human Rights Watch said today.In its written response to its fourth Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the UN Human Rights Council, the Albanese Labor government accepted just 128 of the 332 recommendations…
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By Shaun Eaves, Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Cathrine Dyer, Lecturer in Climate Change, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
James Renwick, Professor of Physical Geography (Climate Science), Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Earlier this month, Wellington declared a local state of emergency, including evacuation orders, when forecast powerful swells threatened to inundate coastal properties.
Hundreds of people evacuated, but when the damage and inundation remained limited, mainstream and social…
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By Daria Dergacheva
The main risk lies in the list of “safe third countries” — if Russian citizens pass through those countries, they could be denied refugee status and sent back.
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By Marguerite Xenopoulos, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Change of Freshwater Ecosystems, Trent University
Paul Frost, David Schindler Professor of Aquatic Science, Trent University
Algal blooms are not maintenance failures requiring paint or treatment with hydrogen peroxide and nanobubbles. They are ecological warning signs.
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By Andrew Stevens, Associate Professor, Faculty of Business Administration, University of Regina
Charles Smith, Professor, Political Studies, University of Saskatchewan
A Senate committee is recommending a permanent tribunal that could ban strikes in federally regulated industries. The proposal would gut constitutional protections workers won in court.
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By Christopher J. Greyson-Gaito, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University
Resilient urban mobility can be created by giving people options that ensure they can still move around when a shock affects one form of transportation.
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