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Phones: Friends in our Pockets, or Sources of Anxiety?

Maria Cristina De VicenteMarch 27, 2019

It is too early on a Monday morning and the train is a sea of bowed heads and hunched shoulders. The automated voice instructing the doors to shut echoes into t...

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International Women’s Day: Honouring the Legacy of Henrietta Lacks

Adilah AhmadMarch 6, 2019

The year was 1951, a young African American woman named Henrietta Lacks was dying from cervical cancer. In an operating room, surgeons harvested cells from h...

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The woman taking a part of Australia to Mars

Maria Cristina De VicenteMarch 4, 2019

The last 200 years have been socially and technologically revolutionary. They brought us the internet, the personal computer, airplanes, rockets, electric light...

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Opinion: Capitalism causes climate crisis

Caitlin Egloff-BarrFebruary 24, 2019

As extreme weather intensifies, and we head closer and closer to environmental catastrophe, it is becoming increasingly apparent that this is due to unequal wea...

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Pucker up to be Zuckered up: War on identity

Nick FimognariFebruary 23, 2019

The outcome of political elections or the safety of world leaders might seem unconnected to the clickbait you succumb to at 2:00 am, but your identity—or what’s...

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Goodbye (for now) to Opportunity

Max VosFebruary 21, 2019

“My battery is low, and it’s getting dark.” No, this is not a teenager’s text sent at 7:00 pm, but rather the last communication from NASA’s Mars Rover, Opportu...

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Spilling the tea: The health benefits of the second most popular beverage worldwide

Adilah AhmadFebruary 4, 2019

While many of us seem to run to coffee for our daily dose of goodness, tea happens to be the second most popular beverage consumed worldwide—beat only by water....

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Show your skin some summer love

Adilah AhmadJanuary 21, 2019

Now that the relentless summer sun has arrived (yay!) and winter is a long-forgotten memory (peeps who like winter—what the heck?), we need to talk about lookin...

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The science behind our unsuccessful New Year resolutions, and how to make them stick

Maria Cristina De VicenteDecember 29, 2018

After the Christmas-induced food coma, the end of the year approaches with speed so, of course, it’s time to reflect on all the bad (and good) decisions we mad...

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From classrooms to careers: Girls in STEM

Amber WeirNovember 13, 2018

A recent study led by Rose O’Dea, a University of New South Wales PhD student, analysed the grades of 1.6 million students in science, technology, engineering a...

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