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Why freezing entry‑level AFL final ticket prices is smart economics
It’s AFL finals time – and in a season on track for record attendance, the league’s decision to freeze the price of entry-level finals tickets for an 11th straight year is smart economics, writes Dr Paul Crosby.
China is launching a Moon mission to find water ice. It’s unlike anything NASA has done
How do you explore a place where the Sun never shines? China’s space programme will soon embark on one of the most innovative lunar exploration missions in recent years.
Leading tuberculosis expert named new Dean of Medicine
World-leading tuberculosis (TB) expert, Professor Greg Fox, has been appointed Dean of Medicine at Macquarie University.
Reaching for the stars: meet the astrophysics student who refuses to think small
Growing up in a small town in India, astrophysics was far from an obvious career path. Today, Macquarie University student Mradumay Sadh studies distant planets and what they can reveal about our own.
How ancient trees are warning us about the next enormous solar storm
Our sun is capable of storms far bigger than we’ve ever recorded. Studying the world’s oldest trees suggests we could soon be due one of these gargantuan events.
Logies win marks major milestone for ABC’s neurodivergent journalism series
ABC documentary series The Assembly, whose neurodivergent students are taught journalism at Macquarie University, has won Best Factual or Documentary Program at Australia’s biggest television awards.
Why Trump’s MMR vaccine order is the latest public health disaster, with effects set to last years
US President Donald Trump has this week signed an executive order that recasts the country’s childhood vaccination policy to 'support maximal parental choice'. It will have serious long-term effects.
Southeast Asia’s costly AI bargain with US tech giants
US technology companies’ investments in artificial intelligence in Southeast Asia risk reproducing existing patterns of technological dependency, writes Dr Govand Azeez.
World-first neuroproteomics facility offers researchers a new perspective on MND and neurodegeneration
A world-first facility to advance research into motor neurone disease (MND) is now operating at Macquarie University thanks to A$2 million in funding from FightMND and a partnership with Thermo Fisher Scientific.
'Where there is death, there is life': The PhD student building homes for Sydney's disappearing wildlife
How Macquarie University PhD student Selina Kosak is helping restore habitat in Sydney's Inner West - one artificial tree hollow at a time.
Why do Australians love losers? Historians chart the life and crimes of Chopper Read, Tilly Devine in The Dead Can't Sue
Macquarie University historian Leigh Boucher gives Lighthouse a sneak peak of what’s to come in the ‘Sydney Confidential’ of ABC history podcasts.
Remembering Sir Christopher Ondaatje
Explorer and philanthropist who left a permanent legacy on campus.