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An artist’s impression of a Sun-like star close to a rapidly spinning supermassive black hole, with a mass of about 100 million times the mass of our Sun.
ESA/Hubble, ESO, M. Kornmesser
Ratings across a number of sports are in decline. But this doesn't spell the end of live sport, rather it shows why we should strive to keep it on free TV.
Executive orders have the power to be socially transformative in US politics.
Reuters/Jonathan Ernst
Although congressional Democrats have been vocal in opposing most of Donald Trump’s executive orders, they appear to have little support from Republicans to enact the legislation needed change them.
Opinions differ on the precise moment at which the human embryo attains moral status.
EPA/SEOUL UNIVERSITY/AAP
Stem-cell scientists have to work within many limitations placed on their research. One of these is the 14-day rule that outlaws research on pure human embryos over two weeks old.
Cafes might have hosted work for centuries but are they the best place for gig workers to do their thing?
TOLGA BOZOGLU/EPA
Yossi Rathner, Swinburne University of Technology and Mark Schier, Swinburne University of Technology
It's a long, hot summer's day and you're looking forward to an ice cream. But within seconds of your first bite, you feel a headache coming on: a brain freeze. What's going on?
The discovery of the year was the first detection of gravitational waves.
LIGO/T. Pyle
A handful of our business economics writers share the favourite books they read this year.
The annular solar eclipse of 4th January 2011 as seen by the Hinode satellite. The Moon is slightly more distant from Earth than in a total eclipse allowing a ring of sunlight to appear around the dark shadow of the Moon.
NASA/Hinode/XRT
Meteor showers, eclipses, epic space missions and more, 2017 will be worth looking up for.
The increasing proportion of children living in housing-related poverty confronts us with the question: what will we do about it?
Ollyy/shutterstock.com
Many children are living in low-income families that struggle to pay the rent to keep a roof over their heads. Unaffordable housing is fuelling childhood poverty, so where is the policy response?
Politicians talking budget deficits have a difficult message to sell.
Lukas Coch/AAP
Change Agents: The push to legalise medicinal cannabis.
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In 2016 three Australian states and the Commonwealth passed laws to legalise the growing of medicinal cannabis. It was an extraordinary result for a campaign that struggled for decades to gain traction.
Blockchain looms as the second generation of the internet by transforming it from an internet of information to an internet of value.
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Revelations of sexual abuse in the making of Last Tango in Paris give the film 'the air of a snuff piece'. Film scholars must reassess the work – there is no place for revering artistic achievement over human suffering.
New government procurement rules negotiated into the ABCC bill by Nick Xenophon are set to favour local Australian steel producers over their Chinese rivals.
Qilai Shen/EPA
From Wonder Woman to Doctor Strange, superheroes are at peak popularity. As political orthodoxies across the world fall away, these flawed, but good-hearted characters speak to modern anxieties.
The ACCC has blocked the big four banks from bargaining with Apple for more control over Apple Pay.
Damir Sagolj/Reuters
The banks could have used their collective bargaining power not only against Apple for Apple Pay but also stall the adoption of mobile payments in Australia.