By Alison Fogarty, Psychologist and Research Fellow in the Centre for Social and Early Emotional Development, Deakin University
Grace McMahon, Clinical Psychologist and Research Officer in the Intergenerational Health Group, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
Monique Seymour, Clinical Psychologist, Research Fellow in the School of Psychology, Deakin University
New research on a group of Australian preschoolers suggests more than 40% are dealing with an anxiety disorder.
The study, led by Monash University and published in the journal of Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, was based on interviews with the mothers…
(Full Story)
|
By Sian Tomkinson, Media and Communication Scholar, Edith Cowan University
Last week leading chipmaker Nvidia announced DLSS-5 (Deep Learning Super Sampling), a new artificial intelligence (AI) rendering tool it describes as a “breakthrough in visual fidelity for games”. The software takes low-resolution images and uses AI to upscale them, adding what Nvidia calls “photoreal lighting and materials”.
The tool is designed to make video games look more photorealistic, but the examples Nvidia chose to show off the technology revealed something…
(Full Story)
|
By Brent Keogh, Lecturer in the School of Communications, University of Technology Sydney
The new track from US country singer Jelly Roll, Mexican singer Carín León and Canadian producer Cirkut feels like a cheap bourbon hangover.
(Full Story)
|
By Elspeth Tilley, Professor of Creative Communication, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
Media rituals based on reporting numbers and trends help us talk about complex issues using simple measures of progress or decline.
(Full Story)
|
By Olga Oleinikova, Associate Professor and Director of the SITADHub (Social Impact Technologies and Democracy Research Hub) in the School of Communication, University of Technology Sydney
Medea Badashvili, Associate Professor in Human Geography, Tbilisi State University
Polina Vlasenko, Postdoctoral Researcher, Social and Cultural Anthropology., University of Oxford
Many Ukrainian women have become surrogates to support their families. But many in Georgia struggle with a loosely regulated industry.
(Full Story)
|
By Jessica Biesiekierski, Associate Professor of Human Nutrition, The University of Melbourne
Lauren Manning, Lecturer in Dietetics and Human Nutrition, La Trobe University
The effectiveness of IBS diets isn’t just about food – it’s also determined by how the gut and brain work together.
(Full Story)
|
By Nick Haslam, Professor of Psychology, The University of Melbourne
In A World Appears, Michael Pollan wonders if the search for consciousness might be a socially (and scientifically) acceptable proxy for the search for the soul.
(Full Story)
|
Thursday, March 26, 2026
More than four years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the “danger is only increasing”, particularly from attack drones, a top UN human rights official warned on Thursday.
(Full Story)
|
By Lisa Schirch, Professor of the Practice of Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame
David Cortright, Professor Emeritus, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame
The organizers of the estimated 3,000 “No Kings” protests, rallies and other events planned for March 28, 2026, say they expect that the protests will be the largest such mass mobilization in U.S. history.
As scholars of peace studies and social movements, we investigate how…
(Full Story)
|
By Clarissa Giebel, Senior Research Fellow in the Institute of Population Health, NIHR Applied Research Collaboration North West Coast, University of Liverpool
What most people think of when they hear the word “dementia” is memory problems and forgetfulness. But what people often don’t know is that dementia can cause many different symptoms – affecting speech, behaviour, sleep, motor function and more.
In fact, dementia is an umbrella term. There are estimated to be more than 100 types of dementia. Alzheimer’s…
(Full Story)
|