By Hunter Bennett, Lecturer in Exercise Science, Adelaide University
Simply smelling chocolate can boost your gym workout, according to a recent study that’s generated headlines around the world.
No eating, no calories, just smelling.
The journal claimed:
Sniffing chocolate could make your leg day workout easier, even on an empty stomach.
Headlines followed, including:
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By Alex Beattie, Senior Lecturer, Information Management, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Support for banning social media among under-16s is growing. But a closer look reveals complex questions over privacy and digital inclusion.
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By Mutiara Indriani, PhD Scholar, Australian National University
naruemon thabchumpon, Associate Professor in Politics, Chulalongkorn University
The COVID‑19 pandemic accelerated investment in health infrastructure across Southeast Asia, including Indonesia and Thailand.
Indonesia built over 600 COVID-19 testing labs between 2020 and 2021, expanded telehealth services, and introduced digital platforms to monitor diseases. However, these…
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By Peter Siminski, Professor of Economics, University of Technology Sydney
Christopher Carter, PhD Candidate in Economics, University of Technology Sydney
The share of Australian workers who change employers in a given year has decreased a lot. In fact, this rate has more than halved since the 1970s, according to official statistics.
Why is this, and does it matter? We explored this in a recent paper. It turns out the decline is actually smaller and more recent than official statistics suggest.
Demographic change explains the decline in the years before…
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By Robbie Wilson, Professor, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland
The crowd roars in nervous anticipation. Nearly 90,000 fans pack the stadium, while 1.5 billion watch around the world. We could be talking about Germany’s (or Netherlands’) shock elimination from this year’s World Cup…
But it’s 2022, Qatar: the World Cup final. Despite an incredible hat-trick from France’s Kylian Mbappé and two goals from Argentina’s Lionel Messi, the…
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By Fernanda Peñaloza, Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies, University of Sydney
The history of Argentina and England transforms every match into something more than a game – a World Cup semi-final raises the stakes even further.
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By Jon C. Day, Adjunct Principal Research Fellow, College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University
Rob Coles, Principal Research Scientist at TropWATER, James Cook University
When you think about threats to the Great Barrier Reef, coral bleaching due to climate change would likely be first.
But the world’s largest reef system faces many threats. One surprisingly large threat is poor water quality. When sediment is washed off farms, cities and bushland into rivers, it can be transported kilometres offshore. If there’s too much, it can smother corals and seagrass meadows. Fertiliser and pesticide residue can make things worse.
Unlike the global problem of climate change, water quality is a threat Australia can directly address. The issue has…
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By James Patrick Rule, Research Fellow, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University
Ian G. Brennan, Postdoctoral Researcher in Evolutionary Biology, Australian National University
Travis Park, ARC DECRA Research Fellow, Monash University
Have you ever tried to talk to someone while underwater? No matter how loud you might shout, it always sounds muffled. But why? As with many things in our bodies, the answer lies with evolution.
Humans evolved on land, and our ears are adapted to collect and interpret sound travelling through the air. Unfortunately, this makes our ears pretty much useless underwater.
Most mammals can either hear well only in air (dogs, humans) or water (whales). But there is one…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Leticia Wong, a former pro-democracy district councillor, at her bookstore in Hong Kong, June 20, 2025. © 2025 Chan Long Hei/AP Photo As the annual Hong Kong Book Fair opens this week, two of the city’s best-known independent bookstores, Elmbook and Luckwin, won’t be there. On July 2, authorities barred them from exhibiting. Soon after, Elmbook announced it would close on its 30th anniversary in April 2027, when its lease ends.While officials did not say why they barred the bookstores, Beijing-controlled media accused independent bookstores of selling books that…
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By Amnesty International
In response to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s announcement of a campaign to “systematically disable” the International Criminal Court’s “ability to operate”, Amnesty International’s Secretary General Agnès Callamard said: “The Secretary of State’s reprehensible attack on the ICC is the latest in a series of escalating and existential assaults by the Trump administration […] The post Global: States must push back against reprehensible US campaign to dismantle the ICC appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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