By Howard Wiseman, Director, Centre for Quantum Dynamics, Griffith University
A light particle can appear to leave a cloud of atoms before it enters – a new experiment, asking the atoms, confirms the light spends ‘negative time’ with them.
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By Lauren Ball, Professor of Community Health and Wellbeing, The University of Queensland
Kirsten Adlard, Honorary Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
Lp(a) isn’t included in routine cholesterol tests but it can affect your risk of developing heart disease or having a stroke.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Nepal’s prime minister, Balendra Shah, takes the oath of office, Kathmandu, March 27, 2026. © 2026 Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo (Geneva) – Nepal’s recently elected Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) government, led by Prime Minister Balendra Shah, which came to power on a wave of popular demands for change, should use this opportunity to bring lasting protections for human rights and the rule of law, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and the International Commission of Jurists said in a letter to Shah published today.The organizations made recommendations…
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By Libby Callaway, Associate Professor, Rehabilitation, Ageing and Independent Living Research Centre and Occupational Therapy Department, School of Primary and Allied Healthcare, Monash University
Jack Francis Kelly, Honorary Research Fellow, School of the Built Environment, University of Technology Sydney
Phillippa Carnemolla, Professor, School of the Built Environment, University of Technology Sydney
Sally Robinson, Professor, Disability and Community Inclusion, Flinders University
Amid major reforms to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), unveiled last week, NDIS minister Mark Butler announced the government’s plans to commission supported independent living services for people with disability, “rather than relying on a market that isn’t working”.
Supported independent…
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By Sydney Allen
Many countries in Asia have no requirement for environmental impact assessments, and regulatory frameworks, where they exist at all, are years behind the pace of construction. Communities most affected are rarely consulted.
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By Guilherme Casarões, Associate Professor of Brazilian Studies, Florida International University
Carlos Ricaurte, Latin America and Caribbean Center, Florida International University
The solutions they offer - economic shock therapy, militarized crackdowns and a lack of agency in foreign policy - are just old responses retooled with new aesthetics and a new international support network.
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By Kelly Garton, Senior Research Fellow in Population Health, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
Boyd Swinburn, Professor of Population Nutrition and Global Health, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
New research shows how human behaviour and biology are harnessed to create feedback loops that drive people to buy and eat more ultra-processed foods.
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By Josh Sunman, Associate Lecturer in Public Policy, Flinders University
Since 2025, the radical-right One Nation party has experienced a polling surge – regularly polling ahead of the Coalition.
In the midst of this surge, and wider voter fragmentation, the Coalition is facing a by-election contest in the rural NSW electorate of Farrer on May 9.
Farrer is centred around the regional city of Albury and surrounding agricultural areas.…
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By Victoria Rasmussen, PhD Researcher, School of Psychiatry / Senior Research Officer, UNSW Sydney
Australians are familiar with the disturbing statistics of intimate partner homicide: one Australian woman is killed every 11 days, on average, by a current or former intimate partner.
While these deaths are increasingly reported on, suicide represents a largely hidden and potentially far greater part of the intimate partner…
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By Daniel Angus, Professor of Digital Communication, Director of QUT Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology
I hope this article finds you well.
Did that make you cringe, ever so slightly? In the decades since the very first email was sent in 1971, the technology has become the quiet infrastructure of white-collar work.
Email came with the promise of efficiency, clarity and less friction in organisational communication. Instead,…
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