By Alexandra R Harrington, Visiting Scholar, McGill University Faculty of Law, Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, McGill University
U.S. withdrawal from transnational environmental agreements presents other countries in the Americas with the opportunity to chart a new course.
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By Laura de Zwaan, Senior Lecturer, School of Accountancy, Queensland University of Technology
Interest rates could go up even further this year. If you’re struggling with your home loan repayments, here’s where you can go for help.
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By Rebecca Trelease, Senior Lecturer in Communication Studies, Auckland University of Technology
The new ANTM show isn’t about addressing issues faced by former contestants; it’s a chance for producers to distance themselves from the besmirched Tyra Banks.
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By Amy Peden, NHMRC Research Fellow, School of Population Health and Co-founder UNSW Beach Safety Research Group, UNSW Sydney
We know swimming ability is declining in Australia. One in four schools no longer holds a swimming carnival at all.
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By Sara Webb, Lecturer, Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology
Astronomers have been watching the supergiant WOH G64 for decades – and it might have turned into a hypergiant and be heading for self-destruction.
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By Euan Ritchie, Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
Amy Coetsee, Threatened Species Biologist, The University of Melbourne
Anthony Rendall, Lecturer in Conservation Biology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
Duncan Sutherland, Deputy Director of Research, Phillip Island Nature Parks; Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
All animals need to eat to survive, grow and reproduce. To do so, they also need to avoid being eaten. This is a big challenge for many of Australia’s native mammals, because when they search for food, they must also escape the attention of introduced predators, namely, feral cats and red foxes.
Tragically, many have been unable to overcome this test of survival, becoming one of the 40 native mammal species driven…
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By John (Eddie) La Marca, Senior Research Officer, Blood Cells and Blood Cancer, WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research)
Cameron Lewis, Clinician Scientist, WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research)
Sarah Diepstraten, Senior Research Officer, Blood Cells and Blood Cancer Division, WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research)
Blood tests are helpful for monitoring your overall health. But research suggests they can also give us clues about the development of some cancers.
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By James S. Crampton, Professor of Paleontology and Stratigraphy, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Chris Clowes, Adjunct Teaching Fellow in Geology, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Kyle J. Bland, Senior Geologist, Earth Sciences New Zealand
We know Aotearoa New Zealand is home to many geographically and biologically special features. Yet few of us know it also has its very own measure of “deep time”.
Known as the New Zealand Geological Timescale, it has just undergone its most comprehensive revision in 20 years.
Like the periodic table, the geological timescale brings order to Earth’s deep…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Syrian security forces take control of al-Hol camp in the desert region of al-Hasakah Province, Syria, on January 21, 2026, following the withdrawal of Kurdish forces the previous day. © 2026 Rami Alsayed/NurPhoto via AP Photo (Beirut) – The wellbeing of about 8,500 people held in camps housing families of men suspected of Islamic State (ISIS) affiliation in northeast Syria remains uncertain, Human Rights Watch said today. On January 30, 2026, the Syrian government announced that the camps, called al-Hol and Roj, would be imminently closed. After control of…
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By Martin B. Richards, Research Professor in Archaeogenetics, Department of Physical and Life Sciences, University of Huddersfield
Maria Pala, Senior Lecturer in Molecular Biology, Department of Physical and Life Sciences, University of Huddersfield
When ancient DNA studies began to gain attention, little more than a decade ago, the view took hold among geneticists that everything we thought we knew about the peopling of Europe by modern humans was wrong. The story was simpler than anyone was expecting: Europe was settled in just three massive migrations from the east.
First came the hunter-gatherers, more than 40,000 years ago. Then, after 9,000 years ago, there was an expansion of farming people from Anatolia during the Neolithic age.
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