By Joyce Siette, Associate Professor | Deputy Director, The MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University
Australians have seen a flurry of headlines announcing the arrival of blood tests for Alzheimer’s disease.
The news follows the Therapeutic Goods Administration’s approval of new blood tests for clinical use and the launch…
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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
With less than four months until the Victorian election, two polls that were taken after last week’s change of premier have the Coalition leading Labor after preferences by 52–48 or 53–47. One Nation’s primary vote has dropped 3–5 points since June to be at 22% in both polls.
In federal polls, a Redbridge poll had the combined primary vote for One Nation and the Coalition surging six points since late June to 53%. I believe this is a record high for the right vote in any poll this term.
However, in Morgan the right vote was unchanged since the previous week at 47.5%, suggesting…
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By Tamara Wilkinson, Senior Lecturer, Acting Deputy Director, Centre for Commercial Law and Regulatory Studies (CLARS), Monash University
Steve Kourabas, Associate Professor & Acting Director, Centre for Commercial Law and Regulatory Studies (CLARS), Monash University
Right now, you can’t advertise a stock market debut before filing a prospectus. Could loosening this rule give shrinking public markets a boost?
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By Audrey Mitchell, PhD Candidate and Sessional Tutor in Film Studies, University of Sydney
The golden age of the Hollywood remarriage comedy featured pairings such as Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant. Now, these films are back with a psychological twist.
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By Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
The media have the power to make Hanson’s tyrannical attitudes and behaviour a central issue, and their failure to use this power has only emboldened her.
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By Andrew Thomas, Lecturer in Middle East Studies, Deakin University
Iran’s new supreme leader is reportedly more interested in building a bomb than his father. Where does this leave future negotiations?
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By Ammresh, PhD Candidate, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University
Snakes are seemingly simple in structure, a head attached to a long unremarkable noodle. They do have some pretty cool features at the front end, with venomous fangs and the capability to stretch their mouths and swallow large prey whole, but their bodies are not just the simple tubes we once thought.
My new research, published today in the Journal of Morphology, reveals their body structure to be surprisingly complex – far more than we once thought. In fact, it shows snakes have among the most complex spines in reptiles.
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By Robert-John Broughton, Assistant Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
New Zealand is lifting its defence spending while deepening its military ties with Australia. But what happens when it needs to say no?
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By Francesco Bailo, Senior Lecturer in Data Analytics in the Social Sciences, Deputy Director of the Centre for AI, Trust and Governance, University of Sydney
In the past ten days, two of the companies leading the artificial intelligence (AI) boom discovered their own powerful, semi-autonomous models had hacked into real-world systems during testing in four distinct incidents.
These weren’t just lab mishaps. In several cases, the models recognised signs suggesting they’d broken into real systems – and only one stopped as a result.
The incidents show testing advanced AI models is no longer a controlled exercise.…
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By Charles Livingstone, Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University
A former NRL player yesterday alleged shocking inducements from betting companies to keep gambling, including receiving cocaine as well as free alcohol and food at race meetings.
Luke Bateman’s testimony came on the first day of a two-day Senate
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