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The real reason many Americans are cutting ties with their parents and siblings

Luna, 26, no longer speaks to her father. There was no single betrayal, no dramatic rupture. What ended the relationship was his insistence on obedience and dominance.

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The death of dark energy is a false alarm – the universe is still accelerating

A 2025 study by South Korean researchers caught the attention of the astronomy community when it suggested that the evidence behind dark energy could be wrong. Dark energy makes up about 70% of the universe but nobody knows what it is. This makes it a frequent target for scepticism.

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Storms of dust and sand are another sign our climate is changing. Two experts explain

Imagine you wake up one morning and look out your window. You see a sky of red, hear a ferocious blast of wind and watch as tree branches creak and crack.

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The Coalition wants to see more Indigenous students go to private schools. Is this a smart idea?

The Coalition is signalling it wants to see more disadvantaged Aboriginal students go to private schools.

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Marine heatwaves are cooking our ocean ecosystems – and will only become more common

You may have heard reports of fish die-offs or seen photos of hauntingly bleached coral.

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We built a $10 soil test, then a virtual reality platform to take it around the world

Last year in The Conversation Canada, we described Agrilo, an affordable “colorimetric” soil-testing system developed through research at MacEwan University. Using a smartphone camera to interpret colour changes, Agrilo measures soil nutrients and can provide farmers with timely guidance to support fertilizer decisions.

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‘Climate whiplash’ is not simply a buzzword, but a symptom of a warming planet

What flashes to mind when you hear the word “whiplash”?

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Will companies ever be run by an AI CEO?

OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman has speculated about how long it will take for artificial intelligence to replace senior leadership teams in organisations. “Shame on me,” Altman told the Conversations with Tyler podcast in November 2025, “if OpenAI is not the first big company run by an AI CEO.”

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An insider once in charge of failing banks lifts the lid on banking

Harrison Young has had a long and distinguished international career in banking and finance. He started in senior executive roles in major United States banks, then became a US financial regulator, with responsibility for the resolution of failing banks. He was also a director of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia…

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Giant ice mountains on the other side of Earth once dictated Australia’s climate – new study

During the most recent ice age, much of North America disappeared beneath ice sheets several kilometres thick. These frozen giants covered most of present-day Canada and parts of the northern United States, while smaller ones spread across northern Europe.

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Omar Musa’s Miles Franklin win rewards epic, ambitious Australian writing with a global scope

Omar Musa has won the 2026 Miles Franklin Literary Award for Fierceland, an energetic, formally adventurous novel that confirms his place as one of the most ambitious voices in contemporary Australian literature.

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Do we really need 10,000 steps a day?

You’ve probably heard that hitting 10,000 steps a day is the key to health and longevity.

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From flushing our toilets to building new schools, this is why filling in your census form matters

Do you want your toilet to reliably flush, whether you’re at home or on holiday anywhere in Australia? Want to help shape decisions on where new schools get built? Or want people experiencing homelessness to get better services than they do now?

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Australia’s fuel discount is ending. What does this mean for petrol prices?

Australians are bracing for more pain at the fuel pump, with the federal government set to scrap its fuel excise discount this Sunday.

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Wildfires, wombats and wake-up calls – what to read, rethink and act on this week

This roundup of The Conversation’s environment coverage was first published in our award-winning weekly climate action newsletter, Imagine.

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Grattan on Friday: A reluctant Albanese is under pressure over telehealth for VAD

At last week’s Labor conference, which was totally under the prime minister’s thumb, only one issue was contested on the floor: support for the use of telehealth in voluntary assisted dying care.

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Australia’s online watchdog is taking messaging app Telegram to court over ‘pro-terrorist’ posts

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Closing the Gap is failing, yet again. Is it time we do away with it altogether?

Every year, the Productivity Commission reports on the progress state and federal governments are making towards closing the gap in the gross inequality between Indigenous and non-Indigenous lives.

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As AI reshapes newsrooms, leading media outlets are charting different paths for its use

A labor dispute erupted at The Guardian’s London headquarters in December 2024, with nearly 500 journalists going on strike to protest the proposed sale of the Guardian-owned Observer.

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Mail-in voting: Trump administration appeals to Supreme Court to revive executive order setting limits, rejected by lower courts

John Jones knows about voter suppression. Currently the president of Dickinson College, Jones – nominated in 2002 by President George W. Bush and confirmed unanimously by the U.S. Senate – served for almost two decades as a federal court judge.

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Seven climate-friendly ways to transform your home

This roundup of The Conversation’s environment coverage was first published in our award-winning weekly climate action newsletter, Imagine.

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Strange Health wins best health and wellbeing podcast award

Strange Health, a video podcast produced by The Conversation UK, has won the best health and wellbeing award at the Publisher Podcast Awards 2026.

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5 lessons from 20 years of climate surveys: Political party matters, but it doesn’t explain everything

Why would a young Republican back solar power but reject a carbon tax? Why would two Democrats agree that climate change is real but split over a policy that would charge households more if they exceeded a monthly limit on energy use?

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What Ed Miliband’s appointment does and doesn’t mean for the UK’s foreign policy

The route to 10 Downing Street is often fairly parochial, requiring knowledge and experience of local or national issues, rather than international ones. Andy Burnham has been involved in politics for a quarter of a century. But his variety of posts gives us little indication of how he is likely…

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How was the first language formed?

Nine-year-old Eva was watching an episode of the children’s show Horrible Histories about the stone age recently when a question popped into her head. The cave men were speaking a broken form of English, but Eva thought that didn’t sound right and she wondered: how was the first language formed?

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