By Bethany Rose Dawson, PhD Candidate, School of Biological Sciences, Adelaide University Camille Mellin, Senior Lecturer and ARC Future Fellow, School of Biological Sciences, Adelaide University Evangeline Mantzioris, Program Director of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Accredited Practising Dietitian, Adelaide University
This is very bad news for human health but also for the health of other animals in the food web.
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By Radhika Raghav, Teaching Fellow, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Otago; Swinburne University of Technology
Even though he wasn’t a woman, Bal Gandharva’s vision of the ‘traditional wife’ was given supremacy over every other form of womanhood.
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By Andreina Seijas, Lecturer, Urban School, Sciences Po
Summer in Europe is normally cause for celebration. Not this one, however, which will rank as one of the hottest on record. Wildfires have broken out everywhere from France to Greece, while intense drought has turned the grass in London’s famous Hyde Park brown. This week, much of Europe is sweltering through yet…
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By Andrew Battisti, Research Fellow in Astrophysics at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, The University of Western Australia; Australian National University
In 2023, the James Webb Space Telescope revealed something strange: the distant reaches of the universe are filled with “little red dots” that astronomers still can’t quite explain. But a new paper I coauthored, published today in Nature Astronomy, might have found the key to understanding their nature. It turns out…
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By Ashika Niraula, Senior Research Associate, Global Migration Institute, Toronto Metropolitan University Sagar Raj Sharma, Visiting Researcher, Global Migration Institute, Toronto Metropolitan University
Youth-led protest movements across Asia have exposed underlying anger at corruption and blocked opportunity. But so far, only Nepal has managed to convert that anger into a transfer of governing power.
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By Christopher Cotton, Professor, Jarislowsky-Deutsch Chair in Economic & Financial Policy, and Director of the John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy, Department of Economics, Queen's University, Ontario
Science works through a process of revision. As consumers, we must learn how to evaluate how mature evidence is, and always remain flexible to new findings.
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By Rahul Ravi, Professor of Finance, Concordia University Gillian Leithman, Assistant Professor, Management, Concordia University Sandra Betton, Associate Professor, Finance, Concordia University Sonal Kumar, Assistant Professor of Finance, Bryant University
Women and racialized executives often outperform white men as CEOs. But that may say as much about the barriers they had to overcome to reach the top as it does about their leadership ability.
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By Stefan Wolff, Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham Tetyana Malyarenko, Professor of International Security, Jean Monnet Professor of European Security, National University Odesa Law Academy
Ukraine celebrated this year’s independence day on August 24 in the presence of key allies and amid the unfolding of another major corruption scandal. It all started when Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s defence minister until his dismissal as part of a government reshuffle last month, posted…
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The federal government will push for new national laws with rules for where data centres can go, how they must be powered and where their water comes from.
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By Christopher Coffman, Master Lecturer in Humanities, Boston University
His latest – and possibly last – book tackles America’s foreign policy before and after 9/11. Could it also serve as an antidote to the fragmented attention and political duplicity of our current moment?
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