By David Barrett, Researcher, Institute for Water, Environment and Health, United Nations University; University of Calgary
Kerry Black, Executive Co-Director, UNU Hub on Empowering Communities to Adapt to Environmental Change, United Nations University; University of Calgary
Water services are too important to fail. If a utility becomes financially unstable, consequences are passed on to customers, regulators and governments.
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By Wolfgang Wüster, Professor of Zoology, Bangor University
Great Britain has always been thought to be home to a single venomous snake species, the adder. Although its bites are rarely life-threatening, they will require a trip to A&E and more than likely ruin your week. On the other hand, the other two native British snakes, the grass and smooth snakes, have been largely considered non-venomous.
This status quo has been shaken by a new paper by herpetologists Alessandro Paterna and Grégoire Meier suggesting that the smooth snake should be reclassified as venomous.…
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By Julia Szivak, Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, Film, University of Nottingham
By the time a romance book reaches the screen, readers have often already built a whole world around it: analysing it, recommending it and imagining its characters. The Love Hypothesis, a romantic comedy set in the world of STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) academia, is one such example.
The bestselling 2021 novel by neuroscientist-turned-author Ali Hazelwood revolves around biology PhD student Olive Smith and Dr Adam Carlsen, a young professor in the same department. The pair pretend to be in a relationship to convince Olive’s friend and Adam’s boss that their love…
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By Helen Vassallo, Associate Professor of French and Translation, University of Exeter
How do you put the past aside when you have no choice but to care for a parent who treated you badly?
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By Kirsten Parris, Professor, Urban Ecology, The University of Melbourne
Hugh Possingham, Professor, Conservation Biology, The University of Queensland
The future of a proposed rocket-launch facility in South Australia is uncertain. But tensions between space exploration and conservation remain.
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By Jeff Borland, Professor of Economics, The University of Melbourne
The jobless rate hasn’t been this high since November 2021. But this is why it’s unlikely to stop the Reserve Bank from lifting interest rates next Tuesday.
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By Lizzie Knight, Program Director, Education and Skills, Grattan Institute
Ben Jefferson, Associate, Education and Skills Program, Grattan Institute
The federal government is unambiguous about the need for more nurses, builders and electricians. But the plan to find and fund these workers is less clear.
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By Ava Kalinauskas, Senior Research Associate, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney
Tariffs and regulation of tech giants are already causing friction. But one of his biggest tasks may be convincing Australians the US alliance still matters.
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By Kate Cantrell, Senior Lecturer in Humanities, University of Southern Queensland
Charles Spencer’s book is as much about him as about the sister he claims to speak for. Beneath the score-settling, it’s a story of a brother still grieving.
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By Dimitri Perrin, Head of School (Computer Science) and Co-Director (Centre for Data Science), Queensland University of Technology
Anthropic announced today that its Claude artificial intelligence (AI) system identified a previously unknown biological system in the DNA of viruses that infect bacteria.
The press release is the first from Anthropic’s new life sciences laboratory. It highlights some similarities to CRISPR, the natural bacterial defence system that scientists now use as…
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