By Bill Bateman, Associate Professor of Behavioural Ecology, Curtin University
How does a dolphin or seal even get bird flu? Most likely through contact with sick birds – or eating their carcasses.
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By Jak Kakhkharov, Senior Lecturer in Finance, Australian Catholic University
The rush to build data centres brings investment and the promise of a sophisticated digital economy. But it also creates new pressure on housing and skilled workers.
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By Dianne Ma, Lecturer in Culinary Arts & Gastronomy, Auckland University of Technology
Certain taxonomic debates resurface time and again.
When does a pond become a lake, or a sea an ocean? When does a cup become a bowl? And when does a dialect become a language?
Similar debates rage on in the food forums, including the age-old question: what’s the difference between pasta and noodles? Can you really compare ramen with spaghetti, or penne with pad thai?
At first glance, “noodles versus pasta” might seem like a frivolous variant of…
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By Robyn Brown, Associate Professor and Head, Behavioural Neuropharmacology Laboratory, The University of Melbourne
Leigh Walker, Senior Research Fellow, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
Hot flushes and night sweats – collectively called vasomotor symptoms – are among the most common and disruptive symptoms of menopause. They affect almost 40% of women in the lead up to menopause, known as perimenopause.
Until 2024, treatment options were largely limited to hormone replacement therapy (HRT). HRT is very effective for many women. But some can’t take it because they experience significant side effects or have certain…
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Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Bodies are still being pulled from the rubble of Gaza, three years after Israeli bombardment flattened entire neighbourhoods – most of them women and children.
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By Amnesty International
Turkish authorities must end the escalating crackdown on LGBTI rights groups, immediately release detained activists, and stop the targeting and stigmatization of LGBTI people and their advocates, Amnesty International said as a nationwide crackdown enters its fourth day. Since Sunday, police have arrested more than 60 people across 15 provinces following raids on LGBTI rights organizations. […] The post Türkiye: Authorities must end escalating crackdown on LGBTI rights groups and immediately release detained activists appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Philip Broadbent, Wellcome Multimorbidity PhD Fellow & Public Health Registrar, University of Glasgow
It is tempting to tell a tidy story in which people in Britain take too many pills because they exercise too little and eat too poorly, while Danes stay slim by cycling everywhere. The assumption is that Britain relies on medication to fix lifestyle failures, whereas Denmark relies on prevention.
But are Britons actually more medicine-dependent than the Danes? The honest answer is yes and no.
When it comes to the more routine maintenance of getting older – managing the physical wear and tear of the body – the two countries prescribe…
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By Benjamin Redmond Roche, Visiting Research Fellow, Solar Radiation Management Research Governance & Independent Consultant, UCL
Solar geoengineering experiments are being funded, but researchers disagree over what they can tell us – and whether they should happen at all.
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By Tom Quilter, Artificial Intelligence Researcher, University of Manchester
On Saturday, Donald Trump said, “We’re leading China on AI… and, frankly, I want to keep it that way because whoever wins AI, wins.” But the danger the world is waking up to is that this is a game both the US and China could lose, potentially fatally, with AI itself emerging as the winner.
Last week, Evan Hubinger, a researcher at Anthropic, warned that he believed there was a greater than 10% chance that AI could…
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By John William Devine, Senior Lecturer in Ethics, Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Swansea University
Every year since the first Wimbledon Championship in 1877, a male player with a one-handed backhand has featured in the singles semi-finals of a grand slam. That 149 year streak ended at this year’s US Open when Stefanos Tsitsipas, the last remaining single-hander in the draw, exited the tournament in the round of 16.
This is a watershed moment for tennis, as it marks a break with the origins of the sport and the culmination of a five decades-long trend towards hitting the backhand with two hands on the racket.…
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