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From Star Wars to Apocalypse Now, director’s cuts are all the rage. But do they make the films any better?
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Is this self-indulgence or part of the artistic process?
Southeast Asia was crowded with archaic human groups long before we turned up
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The ancestral population of modern humans appears to have split as it moved across Asia.
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Drought-tolerant grape vines tested for Australian conditions
![Alex Copper with the drought-tolerant variety Xynisteri](/research/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2019-10/AlexCopper-and-Xynisteri.jpg?h=3378375a&itok=AjT9Rg5D)
Increasing temperatures and frequency of heat waves are affecting vine harvests and our researchers are investigating potential solutions.
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Peter Dutton is whipping up fear on the medevac law, but it defies logic and compassion
![Peter Dutton is whipping up fear on the medevac law, but it defies logic and compassion](/research/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2019-10/file-20190624-97751-1mp5obs.jpg?h=c673cd1c&itok=txs32ykX)
The medevac law was passed to streamline the process for emergency medical evacuation of refugees from Manus Island and Nauru.
A giant species of trilobite inhabited Australian waters half a billion years ago
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A fossil of the giant new trilobite species Redlichia rex.
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NASA and space tourists might be in our future but first we need to decide who can launch from Australia
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, US, May 2019.
Research Check: should we be worried that the chemicals from sunscreen can get into our blood?
![Research Check: should we be worried that the chemicals from sunscreen can get into our blood?](/research/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2019-10/file-20190510-183096-1id4mr.jpg?h=01328603&itok=QlUirvt4)
There’s no need to be put off using sunscreen.
Fixing Australia’s extinction crisis means thinking bigger than individual species
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The endangered Cumberland Plain Woodland is an ecological community that have shrunk to 6% of their original area.
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‘Revolutionary change’ needed to stop unprecedented global extinction crisis
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The exploitation of the land and sea is the number one reason for biodiversity extinction, according to a new report.
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Better breast cancer treatment
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Improving the overall outcome for breast cancer patients