By Mia Cobb, Research Fellow, Animal Welfare Science Centre, The University of Melbourne
Dogs don’t stockpile food due to anxiety about impending disaster – they’re revealing how their evolutionary past still shapes modern behaviours.
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By Luke Beck, Professor of Constitutional Law, Monash University
Two teenagers are taking the federal government to the High Court. They argue the ban on social media accounts for under-16s is unconstitutional because it interferes with free political communication.
The ban is due to take effect on December 10.
Will the High Court challenge make any difference?
What does the law do?
Due…
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By Cathrine Jansson-Boyd, Professor of Consumer Psychology, Anglia Ruskin University
It is that time of the year again – Black Friday is almost upon us. What used to be just an American event has now taken over the calendar in many other countries as one of the key shopping events of the year.
However, market research by investment platform Aegon, conducted on 2024’s Black Friday shoppers, found that almost 60% of participants would spend their money differently, if they could go back in time.
Regret…
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By Jonathan Lord, Lecturer in Human Resource Management and Employment Law, University of Salford
Evelyn Oginni, Lecturer in People Management, University of Salford
Guoxin Ma, Senior Lecturer in Business, Royal Agricultural University
Women in the UK face a “motherhood penalty” in the workplace when they have a child. New figures from the Office of National Statistics show that mothers in England lose, on average, more than £65,000 in earnings across the five years after a first child. This gap is driven by reduced hours, stalled progression and job moves to fit around caring for a child.
These…
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By Stephen Hibbs, HARP Doctoral Research Fellow and Haematology Registrar, Queen Mary University of London
Christina Barriteau, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics (Hematology, Oncology, and Stem Cell Transplantation), Pathology, Northwestern University
Kari Lancaster, Professor in Social Studies of Science and Health, in the Department of Social and Policy Sciences,, University of Bath
Over 20% of people with the Duffy null variant are wrongly labelled ‘abnormal’, by current blood test ranges, leading to needless biopsies and lower chemo doses.
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By Ezgi Unsal, Lecturer in Development Economics, SOAS, University of London
Can a country so key to the global oil and gas trade help broker a deal that accelerates the end of fossil fuels?
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By Michael Kendall, Professor of Geophysics, University of Oxford
Caitlin McElroy, Departmental Research Lecturer, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford
Jon Blundy, Royal Society Research Professor, Earth Sciences, University of Oxford
You’re probably reading this article on a phone or laptop containing more than 30 different metals. Some will be common: aluminium casing, copper wires. But other metals are less familiar and much more scarce. Each iPhone contains less than a gram of lithium, for instance, but would not function without it.
We are in the midst of a geopolitically charged race for lithium and other so-called critical minerals. These materials are crucial for renewable energy, transport, data centres, aerospace and…
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By Matthew Sparks, PhD Candidate in Entomology, Swansea University
Wendy Harris, Associate Professor in Biosciences
Starting a colony is a dangerous enterprise - so some ants find creative and brutal techniques to take over other queens’ work.
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By Christel Nielsen, Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Lund University
Can tattoos protect your skin from the sun’s harmful rays, or do they make things worse? A new study I conducted with colleagues suggests there may be cause for concern. We found that people with tattoos had a 29% higher risk of developing melanoma, a serious form of skin cancer often linked to ultraviolet (UV) exposure.
However, tattoos did not appear to increase the risk of squamous cell carcinoma, another type of skin cancer related to UV damage. Although both cancers share a common cause, they arise…
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By Michelle Spear, Professor of Anatomy, University of Bristol
In the animal kingdom, penises can be spiked, split, corkscrewed – even detachable. They’re one of the most diverse structures in biology. The human penis is so uniform, it’s an anatomical outlier. Understanding why penises evolved, and why they differ so widely, also helps explain why humans have one at all.
Penises first evolved as a solution to one simple problem: how to achieve internal fertilisation.
The first animals lived in the sea before our ancestors started living…
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