By Kat Henry, Lecturer and Researcher, Theatre Department, Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne
During talk therapy one day, my psychologist said to me, “Look, the human mind is a mystery. We may never fully work things out.” For me, it was at once shocking that a psychologist was so candid about the limitations of their profession, and liberating. It allowed me to relax into the enigma of being human – the endless contradictions, complexities and obscured insights within us all.
I began to see talk therapy as an ongoing curiosity about our interiors, rather than heading toward a fixed endpoint.
That psychologist was a real human, but talk therapy from artificial…
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By Sylvia Nissen, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Policy, Lincoln University, New Zealand
Alexandra Palmer, Research Officer, Department of Environmental Management, Lincoln University, New Zealand
Raven Cretney, Senior Lecturer, Department of Tourism, Sport and Society, Lincoln University, New Zealand
A new analysis tracking three decades of public discussion about GM finds economic arguments have increasingly crowded out cultural and ethical questions.
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By Tyce DeYoung, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University
The 2026 Nobel Prize in physics recognizes Francis Halzen’s vision in building an unusual telescope in Antarctica, as well as the neutrino discoveries it’s made.
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By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
Americans are deeply unhappy with the Iran war and inflation, and the president and fellow Republicans are paying the price.
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By Daniel Angus, Professor of Digital Communication, Director of QUT Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology
Timothy Graham, Associate Professor in Digital Media, Queensland University of Technology
Australia’s new Digital Duty of Care bill proposes a significant shift in online safety. Rather than simply responding to harmful content after it appears, platforms would be required to identify “all reasonably foreseeable risks” of harm in their services and take “effective measures” to tackle them.
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By Chari Larsson, Senior Lecturer of Art History, Griffith University
For over two decades, Justene Williams has developed a distinctive visual language. Her survey show, Once We Were Mudskippers, is now at the Queensland Art Gallery.
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By Bing Lin, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Thriving Oceans Research Hub, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney
Joshua Cinner, Professor & ARC Laureate Fellow, Thriving Oceans Research Hub, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney
Every few years, the elders of Muluk, a tiny coastal community in Papua New Guinea, close a stretch of their reef to fishing. They do this to give these underwater gardens room to breathe, grow and replenish.
We first stumbled on this community-led approach back in 2001. These reefs appeared to be faring remarkably well compared to those further down the coast. This piqued our interest and led us to conduct a global search for other reef ecosystems that were seemingly defying the odds.
While collecting…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Myanmar nationals to be repatriated from Malaysia sit inside a bus, at Lumut, Malaysia, September 29, 2026. © 2026 Hasnoor Hussain/Reuters (Bangkok) – Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim should press Myanmar’s junta leader, Min Aung Hlaing, to end human rights abuses during his visit to Kuala Lumpur on October 7, 2026, Human Rights Watch said today.The Malaysian government should also halt plans to forcibly return ethnic Rohingya and other people from Myanmar, where they face persecution and other rights violations. Malaysian authorities deported about 1,500 Myanmar…
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By Annette Regan, Adjunct Associate Professor of Epidemiology, University of California, Los Angeles
The number of people sick with flu is starting to increase across the United States, with health authorities warning that in some western regions of the country, the 2026-27 flu season may be off to an early start.
Health authorities often advise people to get their flu vaccine by the end of October – but as an epidemiologist…
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By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
One poll gives the left bloc its first lead in any poll since June, but another has the right bloc still in front. Opportunity has an opportunity.
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