By Catherine Comfort, Academic Lead, Access Participation and Success Faculty of Business and Law, The Open University
Nearly 1 million 16 to 24-year-olds in the UK are currently outside education, employment or training and the number is currently projected to increase.
We can all see the huge waste of talent this represents for the young people concerned and society as a whole. In his interim report on young people and work, commissioned by the government, former MP Alan Milburn…
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By Wai-keung Fung, Senior Lecturer in Electronics Robotics & Control Engineering, Cardiff Metropolitan University
At the recent World Humanoid Robot Games 2026 in Beijing, robots sprinted, boxed, played football and tackled tasks inspired by factories, restaurants and emergency situations. The robot Tiangong Ultra even completed the 100 metres in 8.64 seconds, quicker than Usain Bolt’s 9.58-second world record.
But if we really want to know whether humanoid robots are ready for everyday life, a far less glamorous challenge may tell us more: doing the laundry. Can a robot take a crumpled T-shirt from a laundry basket, work…
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Jim Chalmers on Wednesday will release projections from the government’s Intergenerational Report to bolster Labor’s argument against One Nation’s Super proposal.
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By Stephanie Szarmach, James Smithson Postdoctoral Fellow, Smithsonian Institution
Tiny geolocators measure light levels and atmospheric pressure to reveal the migrations of small songbirds – including the yellow-rumped warbler, also known as a butter-butt – in unprecedented detail.
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By Deana L. Weibel, Professor of Anthropology, Grand Valley State University
60 years of ‘Star Trek’: A cultural anthropologist on how the show’s “infinite diversity in infinite combinations” conception helped shape NASA’s vision of the future.
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By Aylin Yener, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Integrated Systems Engineering, The Ohio State University
Every time you make a phone call, stream a video or connect to Wi-Fi, your device is sending and receiving invisible signals through the air. So are your baby monitor, garage door opener, your GPS, the weather-monitoring satellites and the radars keeping planes safely apart. All of these rely on the same invisible resource: the radio spectrum.
The demand for wireless data – driven by smartphones, video streaming and billions of connected devices – keeps growing, making available spectrum scarce. But it doesn’t…
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By Elaine Reno, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine-Wilderness and Environmental Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz
Medicine and technology may have advanced, but the dangers of the wilderness remain unchanged. The Oregon Trail game provides timeless tips on how to enjoy nature safely.
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By Pardis Mahdavi, Director, Executive Leadership Academy, University of California, Berkeley
For at least two decades, thousands of Americans have been going to Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil to look for ayahuasca, a psychoactive brew traditionally used in sacred ceremonies in South America. Ayahuasca contains the psychedelic compound DMT, N-Dimethyltryptamine, and researchers are studying its effects on several conditions, including depression and addiction.
However, another sacred plant is quietly…
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By Mary Hanson, Aerobiologist and Work Integrated Learning Academic Coordinator (Science), Edith Cowan University
Eastern states have experienced more vegetation growth during late winter and early spring, while WA has had lower plant growth. Here’s what this means for symptoms.
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By Luke Beck, Professor of Constitutional Law, Monash University
Some of the country’s highest-paid public servants would like politicians to stop posting videos of them online. It would be an antidemocratic, even unlawful, move.
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