By José-Miguel Bello y Villarino, Senior Research Fellow, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney
Henry Fraser, Research Fellow in Law, Accountability and Data Science, Queensland University of Technology
Last week, one of Australia’s leading artificial intelligence (AI) researchers, Toby Walsh, warned Australia’s lack of guardrails for AI is putting young people at risk of being “sacrificed for the profits of big tech”.
Walsh’s remarks came after the government scrapped its own proposal to establish an advisory body of AI experts. Instead,…
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By David Ubilava, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Sydney
Australia gets half its urea – a crucial nitrogen fertiliser – from countries now impacted by the war. But research suggests higher food prices aren’t a given.
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By Dan van den Hoek, Senior Lecturer, Clinical Exercise Physiology, University of the Sunshine Coast
Anthony Bedford, Associate Professor of Data Science and Senior Performance Analyst, University of the Sunshine Coast
Bridgette O'Malley, Associate Lecturer (Sport and Exercise Science), University of the Sunshine Coast
New F1 regulations could have a huge impact in 2026, starting with the Melbourne Grand Prix – which no Australian has ever won.
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By Erik Meijaard, Honorary Professor of Conservation, University of Kent
Kristofer M. Helgen, Adjunct professor, University of Technology Sydney
Tim Flannery, Honorary Fellow, Australian Museum
A plantation worker photographed this new genus of mammal in New Guinea, thought to have been dead for 6,000 years.
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By Emily Brayshaw, Honorary Research Fellow, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney
By creating a costume that can be taken off, even a ‘naked’ one, costume designers help create an important separation between the role and the actor.
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By Henrietta Byrne, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, University of Sydney
Alex Broom, Professor of Sociology & Director, Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, University of Sydney
Katherine Kenny, ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow, Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, University of Sydney
When your loved one is in palliative care, the last thing you want to think about is money. But new research shows financial stress at this difficult time is front and centre.
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By Andrew Weeks, Associate Senior Research Scientist, The University of Melbourne
Adam Miller, Associate Professor, Genomics and Genetics, RMIT University
Collin Ahrens, Visiting Fellow - Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University
Population crashes are dangerous and can be irreversible. But new research shows they are not always an evolutionary dead end.
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By Alan Brent, Professor and Chair in Sustainable Energy Systems, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
New Zealand could meet its electricity needs through renewables and avoid power shortages during dry years by combining battery systems with pumped hydro schemes.
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By Nick Haslam, Professor of Psychology, The University of Melbourne
An early figure in the psychoanalytic movement, Jung is often written off. But his ideas of the collective unconscious and emphasis on archetype and myth resonate.
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By Étienne Sinotte, PhD Student in Political Science, McGill University
Instability has come to define Peru’s political landscape, as successive congresses and presidents have become locked in a power struggle.
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