By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
By directly acknowledging the seriousness of One Nation’s support, Chalmers is underscoring that the party is a threat to Labor, not just to the Coalition.
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By Aditya Sengupta, PhD Candidate, School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne
Andrew King, ARC Future Fellow and Associate Professor in Climate Science, ARC Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather, The University of Melbourne
Josephine Brown, Associate professor, The University of Melbourne
Mandy Freund, Lecturer, Climate Science Geography, The University of Melbourne
Nicola Maher, DECRA/Research Fellow, Climate Science, Australian National University
The world is on the cusp of an historic El Niño, a climate pattern centred in the Pacific that could reshape weather across the planet.
El Niño is hardly a new phenomenon, but forecasts indicate the coming one could be the…
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By Katie Edwards, Commissioning Editor, Health + Medicine and Host of Strange Health podcast, The Conversation
Dan Baumgardt, Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Bristol
The Strange Health podcast is back for season two, investigating cottage cheese, sunscreen scares, pimple popping and the health questions you want answered.
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By Marija Jovanovic, Research Fellow in Business and Human Rights, Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, University of Oxford
As the 100th anniversary of the Slavery Convention is marked, it’s time to assess the UK’s role in helping survivors.
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By Rebekah Gear, Senior Lecturer in Initial Teacher Education, Nottingham Trent University
There is growing evidence that children today have fewer opportunities for independent, adventurous outdoor play and fewer chances to make decisions and shape their own experiences than previous generations.
Just 43% of children and young people aged from eight to 15 in England report spending time outdoors every day or most days. Research suggests that outdoor…
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By Justin Roberts, Professor of Nutritional Physiology, Anglia Ruskin University
The supplement industry has a new favourite molecule: NAD+. Scientists are interested too, but evidence of its anti-ageing benefits in humans remains limited.
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By Julie Laursen, Associate professor in Criminology, University of Copenhagen
It has been said that a society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats people who break the law.
I research prisons and am interested in what incarceration reveals about the relationship between the state and the people in its care.
By this standard, the UK and Denmark tell very different stories. In 2025, Denmark’s prison population stood at around 69…
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By Saroash Shahid, Reader in Dental Materials, Queen Mary University of London
Teeth can turn up in the nose, the sinuses and even the eye socket. Here’s how they end up there, and what happens when they need to come out.
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By Matt Rigby, Reader in Atmospheric Chemistry, University of Bristol
Lucy Carpenter, Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry, University of York
A decade ago, the international treaty that shapes what’s inside our cooling systems was amended to favour gases that contribute less to global warming.
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By James Ryalls, Senior Research Fellow in the School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading
A hidden threat is making it harder for bees, butterflies and other pollinators to do their job: air pollution is scrambling the floral scents they use to find flowers.
Colleagues and I have just published research showing that ground-level ozone and nitrogen oxides (two pollutants strongly linked to fossil fuel use) significantly impair pollinators’ ability to locate and feed from flowers.
The good news? The global shift away from fossil…
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