Wednesday, May 20, 2026
Speech given by Mirjana Spoljaric, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, at the UN Security Council Open Debate on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict – 20 May 2026, New York
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By Sara Ali, Research Fellow and Academic Database Advisor, Auckland University of Technology
Large index-tracking funds could soon gain automatic exposure to AI giants as companies such as OpenAI edge toward public markets.
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By Maxwell Lechte, Research Associate in Geobiology, University of Sydney
Leigh Anne Riedman, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Earth Science, University of California, Santa Barbara
Stored in an open-air warehouse in tropical Darwin, Australia, are dozens of trays containing cylindrical cores of rock. They are from drill holes bored hundreds of metres below the surface by mineral exploration companies decades ago.
Some of these cores at the Northern Territory Geological Survey are mudstone – a type of sedimentary rock formed from hardened seafloor mud. The companies that drilled these cores were largely unaware that within these mudstones were fossils…
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By Amnesty International
Responding to the adoption of the climate accountability resolution at the United Nations General Assembly by overwhelming consensus today, Camile Cortez, Senior Campaigner on Climate Justice at Amnesty International, said: “Today’s vote marks an important step in advancing climate justice. By adopting this resolution, states have recognized that they have legal duties to address the […] The post Global: New UN climate accountability resolution an important step in advancing climate justice appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By C Raina MacIntyre, Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC L3 Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
Ashley Quigley, Senior Research Associate, Global Biosecurity, UNSW Sydney
Mohana Priya Kunasekaran, Research Associate, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
Noor Jahan Begum Bari, Research Officer, Infectious Disease and Biosecurity, UNSW Sydney
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is grappling with a rising Ebola epidemic, with almost 600 cases detected so far and more than 130 deaths.
Ebola is a rare virus that initially causes a fever, fatigue, muscle pain, then…
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By Krista Fisher, Research Fellow, Centre for Youth Mental Health, The University of Melbourne
Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Professor of Education and Sociology, American University
Emily Lewis, Research assistant, Movember Institute of Men's Health, The University of Melbourne
Ruben Benakovic, PhD Student, The University of Melbourne
Zac Seidler, Associate Professor, Centre for Youth Mental Health, The University of Melbourne
Three videos, three very different messages about masculinity and health. New research shows this is how the manosphere finds young men.
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By Ashwin Nagappa, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, Queensland University of Technology
Daniel Angus, Professor of Digital Communication, Director of QUT Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology
Globally, users of digital media are increasingly locked into a handful of operating systems, app stores, and communication platforms. Most of us must choose between Apple, Windows, or Android. All of these are owned by American tech giants.
Much of private and government IT infrastructure – websites, mobile banking, nearly anything online you can think of – uses cloud services, such as Amazon Web Services, Cloudflare or Microsoft Azure. They might have locations
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By Dorina Pojani, Associate Professor in Urban Planning, The University of Queensland
The first step is rethinking the way we view housing – as home and shelter rather than an investment or commodity.
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By Ashleigh Barrett-Young, Research Fellow in Brain Health, University of Otago
Studying middle-aged populations is important to understanding what Alzheimer’s disease looks like in the earliest stages, to make preventive measures more effective.
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By Chris Kirkland, Professor of Geochronology, Curtin University
Anthony Clarke, Research Fellow, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University
From butterflies to blue whales, corals and worms, Earth is home to an incredible diversity of animals. How all of these animals evolved from earlier, simpler ancestors is one of the most exciting stories in the history book of life on our 4.5 billion-year-old planet.
A new study, published today in Science Advances, adds crucial information to this story. Led by Scott Evans, assistant curator of…
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