By Charles Barbour, Associate Professor, School of Arts, Western Sydney University
Are there potential benefits to artificial friendships, or is the idea of a mechanical friend sadder or more pathetic than having no friends at all?
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By Saini Samim, Postdoctoral research fellow, The University of Melbourne
Hayden Dalton, Lecturer in Geoscience, The University of Melbourne
Valerie Shayne Olfindo, PhD Candidate, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland
This year alone, the Philippines’ volcano monitoring agency has recorded 18 eruptive events at Taal Volcano – but they haven’t been the kind you might expect.
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By Elizabeth Macpherson, Professor of Law and Rutherford Discovery Fellow, University of Canterbury
David Jefferson, Associate professor, University of Canterbury
New Zealand’s conservation management currently prioritises full protection of pristine landscapes. Other models are based on reciprocity between people and nature.
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By Dr. Farhan M. Asrar, Associate Dean —Clinical Faculty Relations, School of Medicine, Toronto Metropolitan University
I woke up today seeing that my windows appeared to have an yellow/orange tint to them, signalling that wildfire smoke was upon my city and reminding us that climate-related hazards are increasingly becoming visible parts of our daily lives.
I’m a family physician, public health physician and medical educator. My work and research in space medicine has also given me a unique appreciation for planetary environments, and as I looked…
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By Michael Skey, Lecturer in Media and Communications, Loughborough University
It could be time for a new idea of what Englishness really means – and footballers are helping to shape it.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Migrant teens line up for a class in San Benito, Texas, in August 29, 2019. © 2019 Eric Gay/AP Photo Federal agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations and Health and Human Services made unannounced visits in June to several DC-area legal aid nonprofits dedicated to representing unaccompanied immigrant children.According to media reports, the agents asked for documents and financial records relating to the organizations’ child clients from Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), Amica, and Ayuda. Leaders from the targeted organizations…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Residents walk through the rubble from Pakistani airstrikes that killed civilians in the village of Mandokhail, Chamkani district, Afghanistan, June 29, 2026. © 2026 Saifullah Zahir/AP Photo On June 29, Pakistani airstrikes in three provinces in eastern Afghanistan killed at least 28 civilians and wounded at least 49, including among them women and children, according to the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). Pakistani authorities assert that they were targeting militants responsible for attacking Pakistani security personnel days…
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By David Turner, Senior Lecturer in Sports Coaching, Anglia Ruskin University
As a football coach, Thomas Tuchel has done things differently to many of his colleagues.
For example, it is extremely rare for lower league footballers to become the head coaches of top sides. But that’s what Tuchel did, playing as a defender in Germany’s bottom tiers, before going on to manage elite teams like Paris Saint-Germain and Chelsea.
It’s also unusual for youth team coaches to become coaches to senior sides, or to make the leap from coaching relatively small clubs to some…
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By Zoe Elisabeth Swann Baillie, Research Associate in Humanity and Space, University of Leicester
The UK Space Agency and space startup Vast just signed an agreement to send Paralympic sprinter and below-knee amputee John McFall into orbit as early as 2027. Most coverage framed it as a victory for inclusion. As a space health researcher, I think something far more interesting happened.
For 70 years, spaceflight has assumed a rigid archetype: a healthy white man with a military background. The assumption was that physical uniformity minimised risk. As we…
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By Henri Chevalier, PhD student at School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability, University of Waterloo
New research shows that corporate concentration, the agricultural treadmill and export-driven policy have turned farm expansion into a survival requirement.
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