By Hoani Smith, Lecturer in Sport Management and Sport Science, Lincoln University, New Zealand
Conrad Goodhew, Assistant Lecturer, School of Health Sciences, University of Canterbury
Online wellness trends claim saunas and cold plunges can boost male fertility. The evidence tells a more nuanced story – and some claims don’t stack up.
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By Intifar Chowdhury, Lecturer in Government, Jeff Bleich Centre for Democracy and Disruptive Technologies, Flinders University
In our age of ‘hyperpolitics’, what does meaningful change look like? Anton Jäger’s buzzy new book has some answers – but could go harder on neoliberalism.
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By Jessa Rogers, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, The University of Melbourne
The Coalition is signalling it wants to see more disadvantaged Aboriginal students go to private schools.
In a recent speech outlining his approach to education, opposition spokesperson for Indigenous Australians, Julian Leeser, said he wants to see “transformation through school education”.
As part of this, he pointed out how the retention rate of Indigenous students who go on to Year 12 is far higher in private schools than in government schools.
In separate comments…
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By Bill Corcoran, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Monash University
Allison Kealy, Director, Innovative Planet Institute, Swinburne University of Technology
Arnan Mitchell, Director, ARC Centre of Excellence in Optical Microcombs for Breakthrough Science, RMIT University
Luke H. Broadley, Research Assistant, Electronic Engineering, RMIT University
Earlier this week, Bevan Slattery, the chief executive of subsea cable company SubCo, announced that two cables had experienced faults over the weekend. He deemed it a “concerning development” because these “submarine cables are the digital lifeblood of our nation”.
Slattery called on federal police to investigate…
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By Tegan Clark, PhD Candidate, College of Systems and Society, Australian National University
Isabelle Finlay, PhD Candidate, Geography and Environment, Loughborough University
Imagine you wake up one morning and look out your window. You see a sky of red, hear a ferocious blast of wind and watch as tree branches creak and crack.
No, the apocalypse has not descended on your local neighbourhood. You’ve just been caught in the middle of a dust storm.
These storms form when strong winds lift sand and dust particles into the atmosphere. Of the two, sand storms typically occur closer to the ground and travel shorter distances. Finer dust…
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By Leila Jameel, Trial Co-ordinator and Research Therapist, Swinburne University of Technology
Ngoc Anh Do, PhD Candidate in Psychology, Swinburne University of Technology
Rachel Brand, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, University of the Sunshine Coast
If you hear “psychosis”, what do you think of?
Many people believe psychosis is a brain disorder and only hear about it on the news in relation to a violent or traumatic crime.
In fact, psychosis is not a diagnosis. It’s a collection of symptoms that affect your mind and how you interpret the world. People experiencing psychosis are more…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image An armored vehicle of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) patrols a town in southern Lebanon, April 29, 2026. © 2026 Frederic Petry/Hans Lucas via Reuters The United Nations Security Council should ensure that an international force remains in southern Lebanon to protect civilians and deter human rights abuses by the Israeli military and Hezbollah, Human Rights Watch said today. In August 2025, the Security Council unanimously decided to extend the mandate of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), which first deployed in 1978, one final time…
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Thursday, August 13, 2026
UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Thursday condemned an amendment adopted by Türkiye’s parliament that would allow judges to give life sentences to child offenders convicted of serious crimes.
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Thursday, August 13, 2026
Civilian casualties in Ukraine reached their highest monthly level in July, with more people killed and injured than at any time since March 2022, the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in the country, HRMMU, said in an update on Thursday.
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By Michael Oluwatosin Bodunrin, Associate professor, University of the Witwatersrand
Abdalrhaman Koko, Senior scientist, National Physical Laboratory
Nihad Omer, Assistant professor, Sudan University of Science and Technology
For centuries, useful metals have been developed by starting with one core element and adding small amounts of other elements. Steel, for example, is composed primarily of iron; carbon is added in varied amounts to produce different grades of steel. Bronze is made up of copper and tin. These mixtures are known as alloys.
Africa already supplies several of the metals used in alloys. Yet the continent captures far less value from designing and manufacturing advanced materials than from mining the ores that make them possible. For example, the continent supplies…
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