By Iain Brownlee, Associate Professor, Nutrition, Northumbria University, Newcastle
Brown rice contains more arsenic than white rice, according to a recent study from the US. Understandably, that might sound alarming. After all, arsenic is a well-known toxin. But the levels found in brown rice are not a health risk. And brown rice, like other whole grains, is still an important part of a healthy diet.
To understand the issue, it helps to remember an old principle from toxicology: the dose makes…
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By Liz Hicks, Lecturer in Law, The University of Melbourne
Ashleigh Best, Barrister, Victorian Bar and Honorary Fellow, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
The culling of 700 starving koalas in Victoria has triggered outrage. There has to be a better way to respond after bushfire.
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By Sandy Africa, Director Research, MISTRA and Research Associate, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
Musa Nxele, Political economist, University of Cape Town
Na'eem Jeenah, Senior Researcher: Humanity, Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection
Setting up a unity government highlights that a positive turnaround is possible for South Africa, though it is far from guaranteed.
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By Peter Layton, Visiting Fellow, Strategic Studies, Griffith University
Just as voting has begun in this year’s federal election, the Coalition has released its long-awaited defence policy platform. The main focus, as expected, is a boost in defence spending to 3% of Australia’s GDP within the next decade.
If elected, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton says a Coalition government will spend A$21 billion over the next five years to bring defence spending to 2.5% of GDP. It would aim to reach 3% five years after that.
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By Stephen Appiah Takyi, Senior Lecturer, Department of Planning, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)
Owusu Amponsah, Senior Lecturer, Department of Planning, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)
Urban flooding is a major problem in the global south. In west and central Africa, more than 4 million people were affected by flooding in 2024. In Ghana, cities suffer damage from flooding every year.
Ghana’s president, John Dramani Mahama, has established a task force to find ways…
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By Tom Logan, Senior Lecturer Above the Bar of Civil Systems Engineering, University of Canterbury
Adaptive planning doesn’t mean people have to abandon coastal towns. It is about having a roadmap with multiple options to adjust as climate conditions evolve.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Destruction from an Israeli airstrike on September 25, 2024, in Younine, Lebanon. © 2024 Human Rights Watch Two unlawful Israeli strikes on the northeastern Lebanese town of Younine between September and November 2024 were apparent indiscriminate attacks on civilians.More and more evidence is emerging that Israeli forces repeatedly failed to protect civilians or adequately distinguish civilians from military targets during its strikes across Lebanon in 2023 and 2024.Lebanon’s government should provide a path for justice for grieving families, including by giving the…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Paetongtarn Shinawatra, before she became Thai prime minister, meets with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet during a visit to Phnom Penh, March 14, 2024. © 2024 Pheu Thai Party (Bangkok) – Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra should raise outstanding human rights concerns with Cambodian leaders during her visit to Phnom Penh on April 23-24, 2025, Human Rights Watch said today. Prime Minister Paetongtarn is scheduled to meet with Prime Minister Hun Manet, Senate President Hun Sen, and King Norodom Sihamoni to mark the 75th anniversary of Thai-Cambodian…
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By Oli Buckley, Professor in Cyber Security, Loughborough University
What if your work self didn’t know about your personal life, and your home self had no idea what you did for a living? In Apple TV’s Severance, that’s exactly the deal: a surgical procedure splits the memories of employees into “innies” (who only exist at work) and “outies” (who never recall what they do from nine to five).
On the surface, it sounds like an ideal solution to a growing cybersecurity problem of insider threats, such as leaks or sabotage by employees. After all, if an employee can’t remember what they…
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By Darius von Guttner Sporzynski, Historian, Australian Catholic University
For centuries, the role has gone to a member of the College of Cardinals – and almost always to an Italian. Might we soon have our first pope from Asia or Africa?
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