By Kuan-Wei Chen, Researcher, Air and Space Law, McGill University
The latest war games by China near Taiwan are just another reminder of the various ways Chinese authorities try to undermine liberal democracies and international peace and security.
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By Zhengxing Li, Ph.D. Candidate in Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego
Tumors that travel to the lungs, or lung metastases, pose a formidable challenge in the realm of cancer treatment. Conventional chemotherapy often falls short because it’s inefficient. It doesn’t directly target the lungs and accumulate in a high enough concentration to kill tumors.
My colleagues and I from the Wang lab and
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By Oliver Kiptoo Kirui, Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Rural households are especially hard hit by food shortages due to disrupted farming, limited access to markets and soaring food prices.
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By Jen Snowball, Professor of Economics and Researcher at the South African Cultural Observatory, Rhodes University
South Africa’s National Arts Festival’s economic impact on its host city, Makhanda, is estimated to be US$4.5 million a year. But it also makes an impact on a social and an artistic level.
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By Alan Dixon, Professor of Sustainable Development, University of Worcester
New research has found that smallholder farmers in Malawi can grow bigger maize crops if they plant maize with legumes in deep beds with natural ditches to catch water alongside.
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By Matthew S Miller, Executive Director, Global Nexus and M.G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, McMaster University, McMaster University
Our approach to combating pandemics must shift to one that prioritizes prevention of human infections with zoonotic viruses, rather than focusing on rapid response once human infection is widespread.
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By George Mouratidis, Fellow, Literary Studies, The University of Melbourne
This article contains references to suicide.
The publication last year of Steven M. Weine’s Best Minds: How Allen Ginsberg Made Revolutionary Poetry from Madness has reinvigorated enduring questions about the relationship between mental health and creativity. As the title suggests, these questions are at once literary and sociopolitical.
Does mental illness beget great poetry? Many poets – celebrated and obscure, from antiquity to the present – have, to varying degrees, navigated…
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By Dominic Jones, Research Associate, Grattan Institute
Natasha Bradshaw, Senior Associate, Transport and Cities Program, Grattan Institute
There are local councils in Australia that can’t afford to fix their roads, part of the problem is simply that they aren’t in Australia’s biggest states.
The problem arises from the archaic way grants to councils are handed out.
A federal parliamentary committee has just launched an inquiry into the sustainability of local government. One of the first places it should look is the distribution of federal funding.
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By Max M Gillings, PhD Candidate, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University
Mark Patrick Taylor, Chief Environmental Scientist, EPA Victoria; Honorary Professor, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University
Simon Griffith, Professor of Avian Behavioural Ecology, Macquarie University
Researchers found blood-lead levels in sparrows were a predictable indicator of blood-lead levels in children – showing how humans and nature are inextricably linked.
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By Adam "Ben" Rohrlach, Mathematician and Ancient DNA Researcher, University of Adelaide
Rodrigo Barquera, Postdoctoral research associate, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
At the heart of the Maya civilisation were sacred sites where ritual sacrifices took place. A new DNA analysis reveals more about this practice and Maya genetic legacy.
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