By Linden Ashcroft, Senior Lecturer, Climate Science and Science Communication, The University of Melbourne
What flashes to mind when you hear the word “whiplash”?
Perhaps you picture someone’s head rocking back and forth during a car crash – a jarring and often painful experience. Climate whiplash is no different.
Scientists use the terms “weather whiplash” and “climate whiplash” to describe dramatic swings between different kinds of extreme weather. And as the world continues…
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By Rand Low, Associate Professor of Quantitative Finance, Bond University
Japan and the US both want the yen to strengthen, but for quite different reasons. But succeeding in this task has risks of its own.
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By Kate Bagnall, Senior Lecturer in Humanities, University of Tasmania
Chinese Australian actor Christopher Chung takes on a lead romantic role in the new Netflix adaptation of My Brilliant Career.
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By Aidan Coleman, Senior Lecturer, English and Creative Writing, Southern Cross University
In this series, we explore influential Australian poems.
When John Forbes (1950–98) died of a heart attack at the young age of 47, he left behind a slim but remarkable body of work. He is still influential and widely read. His Collected Poems recently went into a fifth reprinting. A biography and anthology of his prose writings will be published in 2027.
Educated at De La Salle Catholic boys’ schools…
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By Antonia Goetz, Research Fellow Infant Studies, Western Sydney University
Zhen (Jenny) Zeng, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Western Sydney University
You walk in a park. Children are playing, people are walking their dogs, and then you hear someone: “Who’s my little sweetie?” You turn around expecting to see a pram. But someone is sitting beside a dog, speaking in the same voice they would use with a baby.
It’s not in your head. The way we speak to babies is very similar to the way we speak to our pets – and research confirms this.
So why do we do this? And do pets even care?
The useful features of baby-talk
For pets and babies,…
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By Magnus Söderberg, Professor and Director, Centre for Applied Energy Economics and Policy Research, Griffith University
Home batteries and rooftop solar have become enormously popular. But while powerful, these technologies won’t let us get rid of the grid.
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By Bill Sullivan, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University
Warmer ocean waters are fueling the spread of the bacteria Vibrio vulnificus. Infections can lead to a rare but fatal condition called necrotizing fasciitis.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image US soldiers firing a M110 howitzer during Operation Desert Storm, December 29, 1990. The howitzer fired the type of artillery projectiles Turkey has requested permission to retransfer to Ukraine, until it was retired from US service in the mid-1990s. © 1990 Peter Turnley/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images (Washington, DC, August 11, 2026) – Türkiye has requested permission from the United States to “retransfer” to Ukraine tens of thousands of cluster munition rockets, missiles, and artillery projectiles that have been in Türkiye’s stockpiles for decades, Human Rights…
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By Kevin Rennie
"From coast to coast across our lands, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are being criminalised and imprisoned at alarming rates because of political point-scoring rather than evidence-based reforms."
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By Ryan M. Katz-Rosene, Associate Professor, School of Political Studies, with Cross-Appointment to Geography, Environment and Geomatics, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
James Jackson, Lecturer and Research Fellow, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester
Fossil-fuel dependence, the costs of adapting to a changing climate and the transition to cleaner energy are all driving up costs.
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