Working women are too often left to deal with endometriosis alone. But big changes could be coming

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Endometriosis is a long-term and invisible gynaecological condition that affects around 1.5 million women in the UK alone. Its known for its unpredictable and debilitating symptoms, like chronic pelvic pain, heavy periods...

After 50 successful years, the European Space Agency has some big challenges ahead

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This year marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the European Space Agency (Esa). It has launched spectacularly successful missions, but is different to other space agencies which generally represent one country....

‘We are all lumped under one umbrella of hate’: when social attitudes change, what is life like for people who don’t agree?

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Pseudonyms are used in this article; interviewees who asked for their real names to be used are asterisked. In 2016, one of us (Kath) attended New Normal, a conference in London which opposed LGBT+ rights, including...

Friday essay: ‘the Boy-Girl’, a crime journalist and a Black activist – meet the radical ratbags of 19th-century Melbourne

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The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there, wrote English author L.P. Hartley in The Go-Between (1953). Modern Melburnians may feel the same. But while they live with an increasing cityscape of...

From peasant fodder to posh fare: how snails and oysters became luxury foods

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Oysters and escargot are recognised as luxury foods around the world but they were once valued by the lower classes as cheap sources of protein. Less adventurous eaters today see snails as a garden pest, and are quick to...

There is a growing number of ‘super-sized’ schools. Does the number of students matter?

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Earlier this week, The Sydney Morning Herald reported one of Sydneys top public high schools had more than 2,000 students for the first time, thanks to the booming population in the area. This follows similar reports of...

Australian roads are getting deadlier - pedestrians and males are among those at greater risk

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At least ten people died in fatal crashes earlier this month in a single 48-hour period on Victorian roads. It was the latest tragic demonstration of the mounting road trauma in Australia. In the decade up to 2020, the...