By Armin Sorooshian, Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Arizona
The damage from military attacks on cities can fill the air with pollutants that harm the lungs and stress the heart.
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By Jason M. Lodge, Director of the Learning, Instruction & Technology Lab and Professor of Educational Psychology, School of Education, The University of Queensland
In Australia, artificial intelligence is becoming a near-universal feature of education.
As of 2025, nearly 80% of university students reported using AI in their studies. Overseas, reports are even higher. This year, a UK survey of undergraduates found 94% were using it to help with assessed…
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By Paul Allan Elton, Doctoral researcher, Australian National University
Hugh Possingham, Professor of Conservation Biology, The University of Queensland
Without fanfare, the Australian government has published the latest snapshot on its progress toward halting and reversing the loss of Australia’s biodiversity – our unique wildlife, plants and nature – by 2030. This report on Australia’s progress under the Global Biodiversity Framework is a self-assessment, and the Australian government has given itself a glowing report card.
We examined the claims in…
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By Cameron Webb, Clinical Associate Professor, School of Medical Science & Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute; Principal Hospital Scientist, University of Sydney
A number of cases of the flesh-eating Buruli ulcer have now been detected on the New South Wales south coast.
There is growing evidence mosquitoes are at least partly responsible for the spread of this “flesh-eating” bacteria, with possums also implicated. Health authorities have urged…
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By Hassan F. Gholipour, Associate Professor of Property, Western Sydney University
Mohammad Reza Farzanegan, Professor of Economics of the Middle East, University of Marburg
Dubai’s real estate-driven growth faces a test as regional conflict threatens its safe‑haven status and the confidence of foreign investors.
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By Meaghan McEvoy, Senior Lecturer in History, Australian National University
St Patrick was actually a Roman Briton, who was kidnapped by Irish raiders, spirited across the sea and enslaved, aged 16. How did he become Ireland’s national hero?
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By Brendon Dunphy, Associate Professor in Marine Biology, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
Edin Whitehead, Research Fellow in Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
The Hauraki Gulf is already experiencing more frequent and longer lasting marine heatwaves. Seabirds now have to travel further to find enough food.
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By Habib Rezanejad, Professor of cellular and molecular biology, MacEwan University
Around 200 million animals are used in lab research around the world each year. Organoids may one day replace them.
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By Amnesty International
Responding to the killing on 15 March of a Palestinian couple, Waed Bani Owda, her husband Ali Bani Owda and two of their young children Othman, 7, and Mohammed, 5, in Tammoun in the occupied West Bank after a special Israeli military unit – posing as Palestinians and driving a car with a Palestinian number plate – riddled their car with bullets, Heba Morayef, Regional Director for the […] The post Israel/OPT: Killing of the Bani Owda family latest illustration of alarming rise in lethal force appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Jorge Villaverde, Historien, CRIMIC/Sorbonne Université, Institut catholique de Lille (ICL); European University Institute
A fresh look at tourism in Spain revisits the “Spain is Different” slogan, revealing a longer, more complex and contested history than the 1960s boom suggests.
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