By Drew Rooke, Deputy Science + Technology Editor, The Conversation
Scientific misconduct can waste public funds and harm human health. But views differ about the best way to tackle it.
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By R. Evan Ellis, Latin America Research Professor, US Army War College
Digital Storytelling Team, The Conversation
The world’s largest warship is now patrolling the Caribbean north of Venezuela. It carries 4,000 US sailors and 75 fighter jets. We’ve been tracking it for the past week.
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By Bill McKay, Senior Lecturer Architecture and Planning, Faculty of Engineering and Design, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
When the coalition government this week unveiled reforms to finally replace New Zealand’s Resource Management Act (RMA), many of us would have been glad to see the back of it.
I have encountered the frustrating complexities of this tired and unwieldy law over decades in architectural practice, as well as in various hearings at the Environment Court.
At one such hearing, a stack of paperwork beside the local MP stood taller…
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By Matthew Thompson, Lecturer in History and Communications, University of Southern Queensland
In a world that can seem increasingly digitised and isolating, board games offer a unique chance to connect with others. And over the holiday period, the right game can make all the difference while spending time with friends and family.
But board games are part of a multi-billion dollar industry, so it can be hard to decide which games to try out – or which ones to gift. Luckily I have some recommendations.
4,000 years of arguing over a die
Board games have been part of societies for at least 4,000 years. The Royal Game of Ur, which scholars discovered in the…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A landslide survivor searches for his belongings following Cyclone Ditwah in Kandy, Sri Lanka, December 1, 2025. © 2025 Eranga Jayawardena/AP Photo Sri Lanka is suffering a series of floods and landslides brought upon by Cyclone Ditwah this past November. Climate experts believethe intensity of seasonal storms, which also recently devastated Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia, are likely to have been “supercharged” by rising sea temperatures. Sri Lankan authorities and civil society organizations are now struggling to bring relief to millions of affected…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A Mozambican police officer patrols a shelter for internally displaced people in Naminawe, Mozambique, December 9, 2025. © 2025 Diego Menjíbar Reynés / AFP via Getty Images (Johannesburg) – Thousands of civilians displaced by Islamist armed group attacks in northeastern Mozambique have been sheltering in overcrowded and inadequate conditions, Human Rights Watch said today. Mozambique’s government should work with international agencies to provide sufficient support for people in need.Between November 10 and 23, 2025, an armed group linked to the Islamic State-Mozambique,…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Junichi Kawai, the commissioner of the Japan Sports Agency, delivers a speech in Nagoya, Japan, October 18, 2025. © 2025 The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Photo (Tokyo) – The Japanese government’s Japan Sports Agency (JSA) should adopt policies to promote safe sports in Japan by ending abuses and discrimination against athletes, 12 nongovernmental organizations and individuals said in a joint letter to Junichi Kawai, the JSA’s commissioner. Kawai, the former chairman of the Japanese Paralympic Committee, was appointed commissioner effective October 1, 2025.On…
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By Thanh-Son Pham, ARC DECRA Fellow in Geophysics, Australian National University
Glacial earthquakes are a special type of earthquake generated in cold, icy regions. First discovered in the northern hemisphere more than 20 years ago, these quakes occur when huge chunks of ice fall from glaciers into the sea.
Until now, only a very few have been found in the Antarctic. In a new study soon to be published in Geophysical Research Letters, I present evidence for hundreds of these quakes in Antarctica…
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By Yaqoot Fatima, Professor of Sleep Health, University of the Sunshine Coast
Alexandra Metse, Senior Lecturer, Psychology, University of the Sunshine Coast
Danielle Wilson, Research Fellow and sleep scientist, University of the Sunshine Coast
You’ve probably experienced it – your alarm is set for 6:30am, yet somehow your eyes snap open a few minutes before it goes off. There’s no sound, no external cue, just the body somehow knowing it’s time.
It might seem strange, but you didn’t wake up by chance. It’s your body clock at work – an amazingly precise internal timing system that regulates when you sleep and wake.
But how exactly does this built-in alarm clock work?
A hormonal wake-up call
Deep in the brain is a small group of neurons called the suprachiasmatic nucleus, often referred to…
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By Francis Duah, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Toronto Metropolitan University
Holidays bring celebration, rest and, for many families, long stretches of indoor time. For some, this means table top games quickly reappear on kitchen tables. Games provide opportunities for learning mathematics actively.
These moments of playful learning raise a broader question: how can we support student’s mathematical learning at home without turning the holidays into formal lessons?
One answer comes from a simple but surprisingly powerful classroom…
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