By Rebecca McKetin, Associate Professor, National Drug & Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
Shalini Arunogiri, Addiction Psychiatrist, Associate Professor, Monash University
Methamphetamine – more commonly known as meth, crystal or ice – is a highly addictive, stimulant drug.
An estimated 7.4 million people in the world are dependent on it or “addicted” to it. They face multiple health risks including paranoia, feeling suicidal, heart problems, strokes, injuries from accidents, and a higher risk of early death.
But there are no…
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By Lyndall Bryant, Senior lecturer, QUT Centre for Justice, School of Econmics and Finance, Queensland University of Technology
Amanda Bull, Lecturer, Faculty of Business and Law, Queensland University of Technology
Elizabeth Streten, Lecturer, Queensland University of Technology
Fiona Cheung, Senior Lecturer in Construction Management, Faculty of Engineering, School of Architecture & Built Environment, Queensland University of Technology
Morgan O'Neill, PhD Candidate, Queensland University of Technology
Home builders with fixed price contracts can only absorb so much cost pressure. Research shows which builders were already at most risk, even before the war started.
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By Niusha Shafiabady, Professor in Computational Intelligence, Australian Catholic University
Theresa Dicke, Professor, Institute for Positive Psychology and Education, Australian Catholic University
This new wave of AI short dramas is absurdly addictive. Understanding the psychology is the first step towards breaking the spell.
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By David Bowman, Professor of Pyrogeography and Fire Science, University of Tasmania
After almost 60 years, scientists have been able to prove an influential theory that wet eucalypt forest regrowth is more fire prone.
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By Peter Tregear, Principal Fellow and Professor of Music, The University of Melbourne
Opera singer, producer and librettist Caitlin Vincent explores big questions about her art form in Opera Wars – a lively book bristling with ideas.
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By Adam Hartland, Adjunct Associate Professor in Freshwater Biogeochemistry, Lincoln University, New Zealand
Two million people drink water from the Waikato. But the river is degrading as pollution and invasive clams spread faster than monitoring protocols can detect.
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By Kim Holzmann, Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Würzburg, at the Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg
Insects make up to 90% of all animal species on the planet, and most of them can be found in the tropics, the regions around the equator. Yet we still know surprisingly little about how these species will cope with rising temperatures driven by climate change.
I am an animal ecologist, studying how organisms respond to climate change. My research aims to provide…
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By Kristof Titeca, Professor in International Development, University of Antwerp
Bobi Wine’s escape from Uganda is not just a striking episode in itself, it also offers insight into the current state of the opposition – particularly his National Unity Platform party – and into the divergences within the Yoweri Museveni regime.
The Ugandan opposition leader had been in hiding for almost two months after the…
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By Ian Caistor-Parker, PhD student, University of Warwick
Characteristics that would come to define Mau Mau camps – neglect, forced labour and ill-health – were ingrained long before 1952.
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By Danny Bradlow, Professor/Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
The sad truth is that African countries cannot avoid being harmed by the current Gulf war. But they can make efforts to emerge from the crisis in a better place.
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