By Meena Jha, Associate Professor, College of Information & Communication Technology, School of Engineering and Technology, CQUniversity Australia
You wake up and your smartwatch has already synced with your phone. On the way to work, your phone connects to your car. Later, you put in wireless earbuds. On a crowded bus, dozens of other Bluetooth-enabled devices may be just metres away from yours.
You may not think about Bluetooth at all – it has become an almost invisible part of everyday life.
So what is actually happening when we leave Bluetooth switched on all day? And should we follow official advice that it’s best to turn it off when you’re not…
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By David Roy, Lecturer in Education, University of Newcastle
When students choose their Year 11 and 12 subjects, they are deciding more than their pathway to university. They are choosing the kinds of learning and experiences available to them.
Yet senior Australian students are increasingly turning away from creative arts subjects.
Why might this be happening? And what are young people losing if these opportunities disappear?
What are the figures?
An analysis of national…
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By Nick Haslam, Professor of Psychology, The University of Melbourne
Nicholas Humphrey’s new book, Why Is the World So Beautiful?, posits a theory of beauty – but is beauty too manifold to surrender its mysteries to one theory?
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By Rita Okai, Aṉangu Engagement Officer, Indigenous Knowledge
Andy (Andrea) Leigh, Professor, School of Life Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
Boyd Wright, Assistant Researcher in Plant Ecology, The University of Queensland
Jaylen Nicholson, PhD Candidate in Plant Ecology, Australian National University
Nyinku Jingo, Senior Aṉangu advisor, Indigenous Knowledge
When we hear that climate change is damaging natural environments, it conjures images of rising seas eroding coastlines, or heatwaves bleaching the Great Barrier Reef. But what about deserts?
In Australia’s red heart, the World Heritage-listed Uluṟu-Kata…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Protesters use different materials to build barricades and block a road as clashes erupt in Dar es Salaam during Tanzania's presidential elections on October 29, 2025. © 2025 AFP by Getty Images One year after Tanzania’s contested 2025 elections, authorities have yet to make any arrests for human rights violations committed before and during the vote.In the months leading up to the elections, the government intensified its repression of the political opposition, government critics, and the media. Authorities also failed to account for a spate of apparent enforced…
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By Nicholas Brink, Director: International, Wits Planetary Health Research, University of the Witwatersrand
Fortunate Machingura, Global Challenges Research Fund Post Doctoral Fellow and Lecturer , University of Manchester
Matthew Chersich, Professor, University of the Witwatersrand
Robb Butler:, Visiting Professor in Practice, London School of Economics and Political Science
Across the world, people have felt the impacts of climate change firsthand. The northern hemisphere has had another record-breaking summer season of heat and extreme weather events. The south now faces a summer of heatwaves, flooding, wildfires and droughts. This is driven by decades of climate change, now supercharged by an unprecedented El Niño – the warm phase of the
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By Brenden Jongman, Honorary Research Associate, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford
Jim Hall, Professor of Climate and Environmental Risk, University of Oxford
An Amoc collapse would dramatically alter the world’s climate – often in unexpected ways. Our new study shows how governments should prepare.
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By Declan Finney, Senior Research Fellow in Cloud Physics, University of Leeds
Jessica Girdwood, Instrument Scientist in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester
Weather drones are being tested to help update forecasts of extreme weather more quickly, and could help us prepare earlier for upcoming winter storms.
With an unprecedented El Niño increasing the chance of storms and wet weather in Europe this winter, meteorologists will be looking at new and developing tools to help them forecast as accurately as possible.
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By Rose Davison, Senior Lecturer in Fashion Marketing, Management and Communication, Nottingham Trent University
Fashion is currently trapped in a hyper-accelerated trend loop. Every week there’s a new “core” or “maxxing” style to contend with – such as balletcore or whimsymaxxing. They zoom in and out of our cultural consciousness with alarming speed.
These fads are so numerous that we can be confounded with choice, so oddly specific that we need a new wardrobe to be part of them, and so rapid that there is rarely time to understand or assimilate our own style preferences.
In 1937 the author, critic and…
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By Charlynne Pullen, Principal Research Fellow in Education, Sheffield Hallam University
Teenagers in England will be able to take GCSEs in vocational subjects – that could include digital tech and building and construction – from September 2029. These qualifications will be taken in schools by 14-16-year-olds, with the subjects decided in consultation with regional and local leaders. The new policy also includes a requirement for work experience, which has not been compulsory for under-16s since 2012.…
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