By George Mihaylov, Senior Lecturer in Finance, Adelaide University
Across Australia, parents are facing the school holidays against a backdrop of soaring prices and economic pessimism.
The doom and gloom is not without reason. Recent data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show prices…
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By Md Redyan Ahmed, PhD Candidate in Astrophysics, University of Sydney
Around 1,350 light years away from Earth is a star called TOI-2155. It’s a little bigger, heavier and hotter than the Sun, and it’s not particularly interesting or unusual in itself.
But orbiting around TOI-2155 is something very interesting indeed: a much smaller object called TOI-2155b, which we only know about by observing the tiny changes in light from the host star when the smaller object passes in front of it.
What is TOI-2155b? A mini-star? A giant planet? Or something in between? I’m glad you asked.
As my collaborators and I write in
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By (Keith) Chee Y. Ooi, Professor of Medicine, UNSW Sydney
When we think of cystic fibrosis, we might think of someone coughing, trying to clear mucus from their lungs. But that’s not the whole story.
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By Ágnes Szabó, Associate professor, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Mary Breheny, Research associate, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
When migrants internalise expectations of gratefulness, they can come to think of racism and discrimination as inevitable – to be endured rather than challenged.
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By John E. Jones III, President, Dickinson College
A former federal judge analyzes key Supreme Court decisions this term, reflects on growing judicial invective evident in its opinions, and judiciously gives praise for some great writing.
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By Oiwan Lam
In this collaborative article, Global Voices dives into non-binary gender representation traditions from around the world, spanning China, South Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, and more.
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By Gemma Stacey, Professor of Health and Care System Resilience, Nottingham Trent University
Emma Ireton, Associate Professor, Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University
The Ockenden Review into maternity and neonatal services at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust was damning. It confirmed what families, staff and previous reviews have been saying for years: the failures in maternity care are serious, repeated and systemic.
The Nottingham review examined more than 2,500 family cases and engaged with more than 830 current and former staff. It found long-standing failures, including…
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By Megan Gandy, Associate Professor of Social Work, West Virginia University
Youth sports have a significant impact on the development of all children. Sports provide children opportunities to build their social skills and confidence, as well as improve their sense of belonging and physical fitness.
What happens to these spaces when adults are given permission to inspect a child’s body to determine their gender?
The Supreme Court rulings on Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J. decided that transgender girls cannot play sports that align with their gender…
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By Dan McGrath, Associate Professor of Cryospheric Sciences, Colorado State University
Ashlesha Khatiwada, Ph.D. Candidate in Geoscience, Colorado State University
Scott Hotaling, Assistant Professor of Watershed Sciences, Utah State University
They’re called rock glaciers, and they might not look like much, but they’ll continue to provide meltwater after the world’s iconic white glaciers are gone.
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By David Hone, Senior Lecturer in Zoology, Queen Mary University of London
Museums are supposed to be havens for the collective cultural and scientific heritage of the planet, but specimens sometimes go missing.
Happily, they can also be rediscovered, as a new study shows, with the vertebrae of the legendary predatory shark known to the world under its old name of Megalodon (now properly Otodus megalodon) turning up on a museum shelf decades after they were seemingly lost.
The new paper takes another look at…
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