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Scientist Hugh Goold has completed the final stage of an international effort to create a synthetic yeast genome.

Hugh once delivered cheese to the Queen. Now he’s built the key to synthetic life

The first-ever synthetic multicellular organism is ready to come to life after a Sydney breakthrough 10 years in the making.

  • Angus Dalton

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Owen Cooper stars as 13-year-old Jamie Miller in Adolescence. The series illustrates how vulnerable young boys can be when they fall under the influence of toxic masculinity.

After ‘Adolescence’: How a TV show made Britain confront its problem with lost boys

Boys are falling into a dangerous world full of anger and entitlement, experts say, and it shouldn’t take a TV show to stop it.

  • Rob Harris
US President Donald Trump, left, and Howard Lutnick, US commerce secretary last month.

New world order: Trump’s tariff attack sparks global recession fears

His trade secretary says a recession would be “worth it” to restructure the US economy, while Trump plays it down but admits there could be bumps.

  • Michael Koziol
Concorde planes in Australia.

One April day, when a crazy dream got two cities flying high

Con artists, scammers and the cynical know how to make the gullible suffer. But on April Fool’s Day, innocence can turn into shared mirth.

  • Tony Wright
Lynne McGranger has decided that after 33 years it’s time to step back from Home and Away.

‘A real level up’: The confronting encounter that gave Lynne McGranger an insight about on-screen survival

As she prepares to say goodnight, Irene, the Home and Away stalwart, has marked up a rare TV achievement. Just don’t call her a celebrity.

  • Louise Rugendyke
White House national security adviser Mike Waltz, left, speaks with US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth last month. Waltz added the journalist to the group chat, Hegseth divulged highly sensitive military details.

‘They screwed up’: Intel community aghast at Trump team’s security breach

For US allies, including Australia, the Signal chat scandal is another reminder that this administration cares little for established norms and protocols.

  • Michael Koziol
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Bob Hawke and Margaret Thatcher

Trump for the Commonwealth? He’d make the Iron Lady seem soft-hearted

Donald Trump seems taken by the idea that he might be welcomed into the Commonwealth. Those pushing the idea must have lost their knowledge of history.

  • Tony Wright
The former premier thinks losing the election in 2023 was the best thing that could have happened to him.

‘Losing was the best thing that ever happened to me’: What Dom Perrottet did next

The state’s youngest ex-premier is relishing a life out of the spotlight but still moves in powerful circles in Washington.

  • Matt Wade
Lilie James’ mother described her as “beautiful, independent, intelligent, kind [and] loyal”.

‘This is a man who couldn’t cope’: Experts grapple with murder of Lilie James

Lilie James could not have known that Paul Thijssen would react with such violence to her decision to end their relationship.

  • Jordan Baker

Gone in 52 seconds: Inside Australia’s telehealth injectables gold rush

Australia’s booming $4 billion injectables market is driven by doctors issuing scripts via telehealth in consults that sometimes last under one minute. Critics warn patient safety may be at risk.

  • Clay Lucas and Henrietta Cook

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