By Francesco Grillo, Academic Fellow, Department of Social and Political Sciences, Bocconi University
Is AI a climate change villain, whose insatiable hunger for electricity will roast the planet? Or will it help predict where the next climate disaster will strike and what to do about it?
In order to weigh these questions up, a good starting point is with AI’s energy consumption.
The 2015 Paris agreement was a deal among almost 200 countries to keep “the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels” and pursue efforts “to limit the temperature…
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By Charikleia Sinani, Associate Professor in Physiotherapy, School of Science, Technology and Health, York St John University
Greg Wood, Reader in Sensorimotor Control, Manchester Metropolitan University
Kate Wilmut, Professor of Psychology, School of Psychology, Social Work and Public Health, Oxford Brookes University
Tasks such as writing, dressing and PE can demand far more effort, leaving some children tired, anxious and less active.
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By Kelsey Williams, Associate Professor of English, University of Stirling
In 1790, the London bookseller Thomas Payne sold a copy of the Gutenberg Bible, the earliest printed book, to George John, 2nd Earl Spencer. He charged him £370 – an enormous sum at the time, roughly equivalent to £878,000 today – as part of a package deal which included two other early theological works. As part of the deal, Payne had the old book rebound in sumptuous midnight blue goatskin. In the process, signs of earlier provenance (ownership annotations, stamps or other marks which might have revealed the Bible’s history) were carefully removed.
Nearly 230 years later, multispectral…
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By Daniel O'Brien, Lecturer, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies, University of Essex
As the new Netflix thriller Animals began, I wasn’t sure how its 106-minute runtime was going to keep me sympathetic to the plight of a wealthy American politician. Ben Affleck, directed, co-wrote and stars in the film as Mark Kimball, a Los Angeles mayoral candidate.
Animals begins with Kimball staking much of his wealth and financial security on an election campaign. The final hurdle to securing the seat involves winning over the city’s Latino voters. The film opens to a montage of Kimball feigning his affability for votes, which results quite quickly in a hollow and unlikeable protagonist,…
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By Daniel Ramp, Associate Professor and Director, Centre for Compassionate Conservation, University of Technology Sydney
Kapil V. Patwardhan, Doctoral Candidate, Transdisciplinary School, University of Technology Sydney
Rosalie Chapple, Senior Research Fellow, University of Technology Sydney
A group of Western dog behaviour experts went to India to see how street dogs live. What they learnt raised questions for them over what it means to care for pet dogs.
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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)
Pope Leo will undergo surgery in the coming days to remove a lung nodule that was detected during a routine check up. The 71-year-old said the growth was “well contained” and spotted early.
So what exactly is a lung nodule, and what’s the link with cancer?
Most are spotted incidentally
Lung nodules are small growths found in the spongy tissue of the lungs. They are no more than 3 centimetres…
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By Carolyn Strange, Professor of History, School of History, ANU, Australian National University
Two death penality cases in the US have shocked the world: one for being botched and the other for possibly being made public.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Tags, with “Access blocked” and the name of blocked accounts belonging to journalists and media outlets, LGBT and women’s rights groups, and other rights defenders, are tied to the gates of Turkey’s Constitutional Court, to protest the Turkish authorities’ blocking of hundreds of social media accounts and websites. Ankara, October 7, 2026. © 2026 Yıldız Yazıcıoğlu (Istanbul, October 12, 2026) – The Turkish authorities over the last month have substantially escalated internet censorship, Human Rights Watch said today, along with ARTICLE 19, the Freedom of Expression…
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By Maksuda Akter
Bangladesh and Malaysia have made several government-level agreements for labour migration over the years, but problems such as syndication, excessive recruitment costs and human rights abuses remain unresolved.
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By Nicholas Manganas, Head of School, School of Communication and Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
Set across 1932, 1937 and 2017, new Spanish film La Bola Negra follows three gay men whose lives become connected across generations.
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