By Melissa Haswell, Professor of Health, Safety and Environment, School of Public Health and Social Work, Queensland University of Technology
The incident adds to serious doubts about whether Australia can meet its commitment to reduce emissions of methane, a highly potent greenhouse gas.
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By Vittorio Tantucci, Senior lecturer in Linguistics and Chinese Linguistics, Lancaster University
When you chat with ChatGPT, it often feels like you’re talking to someone polite, engaged and responsive. It nods in all the right places, mirrors your wording and seems eager to keep the exchange flowing.
But is this really what human conversation sounds like? Our new study shows that while ChatGPT plausibly imitates dialogue, it does so…
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By Vincent Hurley, Lecturer in Criminology, police and policing, Dept of Security Studies & Criminology, Macquarie University, Macquarie University
A surrender plan aims to send a message to Dezi Freeman that he has options open to him to bring things to a peaceful end.
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By Serena Love, Honorary Research Fellow in Archaeology, The University of Queensland
Anyone who tried to rob a tomb was taking a big risk because both the ancient police and the law were ready to punish them.
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By Hunter Bennett, Lecturer in Exercise Science, University of South Australia
You may feel sore or stiff if you haven’t exercised for a while, or you’re trying something new or more intense.
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By Iftekhar Ahmed, Associate Professor in Construction Management/Disaster Resilience, University of Newcastle
The death toll following the recent earthquake in Afghanistan continues to rise. Taliban-led health authorities now say at least 800 people have been killed and 2,000 injured.
The earthquake struck just before midnight local time on Sunday in a mountainous region near the city of Jalalabad, along the eastern border with Pakistan.…
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By Francesco Bailo, Lecturer in Data Analytics in the Social Sciences, University of Sydney
Digital platforms have become the essential infrastructure of modern life. They power everything from our group chats to businesses, shopping, election campaigns and emergency coordination. They instantly connect us and continuously feed us information.
Yet although they broker information everywhere, the power of digital platforms remains largely invisible.
They control content and harvest information from behind a curtain, and avoid accountability by claiming they’re neutral. Section…
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By Amnesty International
The Syrian government must hold members of government security and military forces and members of affiliated forces accountable for the extrajudicial executions of Druze men and women in Suwayda, said Amnesty International. The organization has documented compelling new evidence indicating that government and government-affiliated forces were responsible for the extrajudicial executions of Druze people on […] The post Syria: New investigation reveals evidence government and affiliated forces extrajudicially executed dozens of Druze people in Suwayda appeared first on Amnesty International.…
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By Emma Carson, Historian of Emotions and Australian Society, University of Adelaide
Gee I am lonely sweetheart, it may sound silly having so many men and cobbers around me, but when I say lonely I don’t mean lack of company, I am lonely for you, only you can fill the gap in my heart dearest, as each moment passes I seem to miss you and love you more, I shall never get used to living without you […] in fact I am sure we were meant to be together all the time.
My great-grandfather Bill Wiseman wrote this to my great-grandmother Florence in a letter dated October 20 1944.
Aside from when Bill briefly returned on leave from…
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By Michael Head, Senior Research Fellow in Global Health, University of Southampton
Anbang Du, PhD Candidate in Computer Science, University of Southampton
Markus Brede, Associate Professor, Mathematical Modeling, Statistics and Data Science, University of Southampton
Cancer kills one in five people globally. Yet, except for a one-off increase in 2021, the flow of money for cancer research has trended downward every year since 2016.
Our new analysis of more than 100,000 public and philanthropic grants reveals where research funding is being allocated. There are very likely to be reductions…
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