By Alex Polyakov, Clinical Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne
A Gold Coast woman has given birth to twins who aren’t genetically related to each other, after becoming pregnant with a surrogate couple’s embryo and her own biological baby at the same time.
This has produced one of the rarest outcomes in reproductive medicine, the first in Australia and only the third…
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By John Woinarski, Professor of Conservation Biology, Charles Darwin University
The lethal H5N1 strain of avian influenza is rapidly spreading along the coast of southern Australia, where it has killed thousands of wild birds and infected at least two long-nosed fur seals.
So where will it travel next, and what damage might it inflict? Much…
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By Mike Annear, Senior Lecturer, Department of Tourism, Sport & Society, Lincoln University, New Zealand
Hoani Smith, Lecturer in Sport Management and Sport Science, Lincoln University, New Zealand
Richard Keith Wright, Associate Professor in Sport Leadership & Management, Auckland University of Technology
Elite athletes share with the rest of us a common underlying physiology and the capacity to adapt significantly to training. It’s never too late to start.
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By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
Both the Newspoll and Redbridge polls were entirely conducted before Saturday’s Western Australian Secret Harbour byelection, in which One Nation had a big win over Labor. In Newspoll, the total vote for One Nation and the Coalition was up two points to 49%.
After an outlier-looking 53% for the combined right in its late July poll, Redbridge has the right at 50% in its latest poll.
Federal Newspoll
A national
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By Jean Poitras, Professeur titulaire en gestion de conflits, HEC Montréal
When words are no longer enough, you have to change the incentives. Here are 3 levers for negotiating with a partner you can’t do without, but can’t fully trust either.
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By Dana McKay, Associate Dean, Interaction, Technology and Information, RMIT University
Damiano Spina, Senior Lecturer, School of Computing Technologies, RMIT University
For 30 years, the world wide web has run on a surprisingly profound social contract: most sites are free for search engines to access, but if you use their content you give credit by linking to the source.
Recently, that social contract has begun to collapse. Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are crawling sites not…
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By Tanya Notley, Professor in Digital Media, Western Sydney University
Jee Young Lee, Lecturer, News & Media Research Centre, University of Canberra
Michael Dezuanni, Professor, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology
The way Australians consume news has been changing for the past 30 years, ever since internet use became widespread.
Long gone are the days when families routinely shared bits of the newspaper over breakfast, or crowded around the 6 o'clock television news at night.
Since 2017, we have been tracking young people’s media engagement, to understand how they get their news.
This time, we found some young people are bypassing traditional outlets, reducing their use of social media sources and getting their news from artificial…
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By Wesley Morgan, Research Associate, Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is in Palau’s capital Koror this week for the annual Pacific Islands Forum, and regional security is expected to top the agenda.
China is testing nuclear-capable missiles in the Pacific, prompting talk of a new regional agreement. The United States-Iran war has exposed a reliance on costly fossil fuels that is undermining Pacific economies.…
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By Samuel Garrett, Senior Research Associate, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney
Despite a turbulent relationship in recent times, few Australians want to opt out of the alliance with the United States.
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By Fei Gao, Lecturer in Taxation, Discipline of Accounting, Governance & Regulation, The University of Sydney, University of Sydney
Earlier this month, the federal government passed laws to encourage tech giants to pay Australian news businesses for journalism. This is known as the News Bargaining Incentive.
For companies earning A$250 million or more in annual Australian digital advertising revenue (likely to include…
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