By Joyce Siette, Associate Professor | Deputy Director, The MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University
People who did a lot of physical activity between 45 and 64 had much lower odds of developing dementia – even when they carried a genetic risk factor.
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By Andy Hogg, Professor and Director of ACCESS-NRI, Australian National University
Tilo Ziehn, Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO
The project collects troves of data from the best climate models around the world – and the newest update to it is now underway.
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By Lynley Wallis, Professor, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science, Griffith University
Christine Musgrave, Indigenous Knowledge Holder, Indigenous Knowledge
Heather Burke, Professor of Archaeology, Flinders University
Roseanne George, Indigenous Knowledge Holder, Indigenous Knowledge
New research details Aboriginal craftsmanship – along with accompanying wall art – at a remote site in the Cape York Peninsula.
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By Jochen Kaempf, Associate Professor of Natural Sciences (Oceanography), Flinders University
It’s one of Australia’s worst underwater environmental catastrophes. What’s going to happen to South Australia’s vast algal bloom as summer heat warms the ocean?
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By Zaya Rustamova, Associate Professor of Spanish, Kennesaw State University
In the run-up to the 50th anniversary of Francisco Franco’s death on Nov. 20, 2025, the left-leaning Spanish government led a vigil honoring the many victims of the dictator’s regime.
While the exact numbers remain impossible to determine, historians estimate that Franco’s men killed up to 100,000 people during the brutal Spanish Civil War, and tens of thousands…
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By Guest Contributor
We charge danger money... If I am risking my life to transport passengers, don’t I have the right to make some profit off of it?
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By Jillian Sunderland, PhD Student , University of Toronto
Gen Z’s ‘performative male’ trend is both mocked and embraced because it exposes deep cultural contradictions around what we expect of masculinity today.
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By Daryl Janzen, Observatory Manager and Instructor, Astronomy, University of Saskatchewan
How can time feel so obvious, so woven into the fabric of our experience and yet, for thousands of years, remain the bane of every thinker who has tried to explain it?
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By Lynn Abrams, Chair of Modern History, School of Humanities, University of Glasgow
Knitters and crafters had been anticipating Channel 4’s new craft show Game of Wool for some time. Knitting, so long the poor relation of the textile crafts, was finally to take centre stage on primetime television.
Hosted by former Olympic diver and knitting convert Tom Daley, the show draws on the creative and technical skills of Di Gilpin and Shelia Greenwell – two of Scotland’s most high-profile hand-knitting specialists as judges. Game of Wool was set to join the BBC’s Great…
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By Matthew Flinders, Founding Director of the Sir Bernard Crick Centre for the Public Understanding of Politics, University of Sheffield
A vacuum exists at the apex of British government, and at some point this weakness will lead to a challenge.
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