By Alexander Howard, Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney
Jon Ronson’s Them was published just months before the world changed on September 11 2001. Its portrait of conspiracy theorists and extremists was eerily prescient.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri appeared before Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, December 3, 2025. © 2025 International Criminal Court (The Hague) – The International Criminal Court (ICC)’s confirmation of war crimes and crimes against humanity charges against the Libyan suspect Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri, the first after 15 years of investigation, is a milestone for justice in Libya, Human Rights Watch said today.On July 16, 2026, a panel of three pretrial judges unanimously confirmed charges for 17 counts…
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By Liam O'Brien, Professor in Building Engineering, Carleton University
Every summer, cities around the world host car-free days and temporarily pedestrianize streets. Following their success elsewhere in the world, temporary pedestrianized streets are becoming more common in North America, such as for large sporting events, cultural festivals and farmers’ markets.
This year, as part of the FIFA World Cup, some cities in North America created pedestrianized fan zones for spectators and visitors. In Vancouver, the city pedestrianized a large stretch…
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By Mauricio Garcia, Doutorando no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade Animal , Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM)
A 240-million-year-old animal helps us understand a period before the rise of dinosaurs and crocodiles, when their close relatives were still experimenting with different body shapes, postures, and modes of locomotion
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By Becky Freeman, Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
Michelle Jongenelis, Professor, Melbourne Centre for Behaviour Change, The University of Melbourne
Have you noticed more smoking on screens lately?
Social media feeds are littered with images of celebrities smoking at fashion events, in music videos, at parties…
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By Greg Barton, Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
The reality is there is no military pathway to opening the Strait of Hormuz. Trump may attempt to find one anyway.
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By Sarah Diepstraten, Senior Research Officer, Blood Cells and Blood Cancer Division, WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research)
John (Eddie) La Marca, Senior Research Officer, Blood Cells and Blood Cancer, WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research)
For one thing, there’d be a much higher rate of brain cancers in the decades since mobile phones were widely adopted.
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By Julien Périard, Director - Research Institute for Sport and Exercise, University of Canberra
In extreme heat, the tour can provide extra shade, hydration during racing and even alter or cancel a stage. But is this enough?
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By Mehdi Seyedmahmoudian, Professor of Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology
To meet demand from artificial intelligence companies, some of the world’s largest data centres are planned for the outskirts of major Australian cities. Dozens more are planned. OpenAI chief Sam Altman has said Australia could be a global…
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By Andrew Norton, Professor of Higher Education Policy, Monash University
Ren-Hao Xu, Lecturer, Graduate School of Education, The University of Western Australia
Under the Morrison government’s Job-ready Graduates scheme, the price of arts degrees more than doubled to over A$50,000.
But while attention has understandably been focused on undergraduate degrees, what has happened at the postgraduate level?
In a new research…
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