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Thursday 26 February 2026
Pancreatic cancer treatment innovation wins national People’s Choice award
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Teaching excellence recognised nationally as student outcomes take centre stage
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Is it okay to boil water more than once, or should you empty the kettle every time?
Bringing water to a boil disinfects it, but you may have heard that boiling it more than once somehow makes the water harmful
Where do giant volcanic eruptions come from? New study finds missing link to ‘blobs’ deep within Earth
Pillars of hot rock connect moving BLOBS in the deep Earth to giant volcanic eruptions at its surface
A lost woman looks for purpose in a Guatemalan lakeside town
In The Sun Was Electric Light, Ruth arrives at Lake Atitlán a loner-searcher. But the people she meets are crucial to her struggles with the question of how to live
Rare wooden tools from Stone Age China reveal plant-based lifestyle of ancient lakeside humans
300,000-year-old wooden tools found in southwestern China reveal surprising sophistication from the ancestors of modern humans
Roland Barthes declared the ‘death of the author’, but postcolonial critics have begged to differ
Roland Barthes’ notion that the author is dead has been incredibly influential, though it was not as original or revolutionary as it seemed
A new ‘prac payment’ has just kicked in. But it ignores many uni students
Some nursing and teaching students will have access to a new $331 a week payment. But medical, physio and psychology students all miss out