By Oscar Davis, Assistant Professor in Philosophy and History, Bond University
Plato’s dialogues show that learning takes place through the to-and-fro of reflective thought – much of learning is finding out what we don’t know.
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By Kate Marie Quigley, DECRA Research Fellow in molecular ecology, James Cook University
Most kinds of coral spawn once a year. In an enormous multi-day event synchronised to specific phases of the moon, they release vast slicks of eggs and sperm into the ocean to be mixed together by the drifting currents.
Imagine hundreds of thousands of Olympic swimming pools filled with tiny pinkish spheres, all dumped into the sea at once.
In new research published in Ecology and Evolution, my colleague and I have for the first time…
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By Michael J. Armstrong, Professor of Operations Research, Brock University
Ontario’s alcohol market overhaul has cut LCBO earnings, while a ban on selling U.S. liquor has left taxpayers paying millions to store unsold stock.
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By Pankaj Agrrawal, Professor of Finance, University of Maine
Some advocates for older Americans want the government to change the index used for this adjustment to one more tailored to their spending patterns.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Afghan refugees board a truck with their belongings as they await deportation at the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Chaman on October 19, 2025. © 2025 Abdul Basil/AFP via Getty Images France has confirmed that it has opened a “technical dialogue” with the Taliban authorities regarding forced returns to Afghanistan. The announcement marks a dangerous shift in policy that places Afghans in France at risk of persecution, torture and other grave abuses in contravention of France’s international human rights obligations.The “technical dialogue” follows in the wake…
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By Susmita Aryal
Nepal’s flood-hit communities face a long road to recovery as damaged infrastructure, lost livelihoods, and questions over aid transparency complicate efforts to rebuild homes, restore services, and livelihoods.
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By Abdullahi Abdulwahab Yakubu, Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, Ahmadu Bello University
For years, the world has understood climate change as an environmental problem – melting glaciers, rising seas, extreme weather. But what happens in people’s minds when their world becomes unstable? What do they do when the only life they’ve known – farming, herding, providing for their families – becomes impossible?
These questions drove our team of psychiatrists and public health researchers to conduct one of the largest studies of its kind in west Africa. We interviewed 20,000 adults…
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By Sophie Scott, Professor of Cognitive Psychology, UCL
Fausto Caruana, CNR Senior Researcher and Adjunct Professor at the University of Parma, University of Parma
When trying to study the brain networks that underlie the production of laughter, things can get very difficult very quickly.
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By Christine Yanagawa, PhD candidate, Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
Kaylee Byers, Assistant Professor, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University
Why have cities had so little success in reducing rat numbers? It’s usually because they’re failing to address the larger social services issues that allow rats to thrive.
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By Chloé Maurel, SIRICE (Université Paris 1/Paris IV), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
85 year-old Navi Pillay served as a leading national (during apartheid in South Africa) and international jurist. By appointing her, the Nobel Committee is making a stand which has drawn praise and condemnation.
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