By Sally Patfield, Lecturer, Teachers and Teaching Research Centre, School of Education, University of Newcastle
Leanne Fray, Senior Lecturer, University of Newcastle
When public schools are unable to offer advanced subjects, students who had planned to go to uni give up hope.
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By Michael B. Charles, Associate Professor, Management Discipline, Faculty of Business, Arts and Law, Southern Cross University
Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides, Associate Professor in Ancient History, Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Macquarie University
Before modern weapons of mass destruction, there was Greek fire (ignis graecus). This was the term medieval Crusaders applied to Byzantine (Eastern Roman) incendiary weapons famously used in naval combat in the Eastern Mediterranean from around 673 CE to at least the 1180s.
So secret was the recipe for Greek fire that it died with the Byzantine Empire, which fell to the Ottoman Empire in May 1453.
Since then, many alchemists, historians, chemists and experimental archaeologists have…
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By Laura
The victims’ families testified in court for the first time: "We want justice served. Even though their killers are no longer here, I want the truth known.”
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By Charlene Elliott, Professor, Communication Studies, University of Calgary
Using government developed criteria for marketing to kids, none of the child-targeted cereals examined would be permitted to be advertised to children, and 96 per cent surpassed sugar thresholds.
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By Elliott Skierszkan, Assistant Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Carleton University
Andras J. Szeitz, PhD, School of Earth, Environment & Society, McMaster University
Streams are abruptly acidifying and turning orange or milky-white across vast regions of North America’s northwest. This is caused by permafrost thaw — an outcome of a warming climate that has immediate consequences for water and wildlife.
Stream acidification is driven by the weathering of naturally occurring sulphide minerals, which release acid, sulphate and toxic metals into groundwater and streams. This is known as acidic drainage.…
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By Beverlie Dietze, Part Time Faculty in Education, Mount Saint Vincent University
Kelsey Robson, Contract Lecturer, Faculty of Education, Lakehead University
Melanie Manitowabi, Research and Special Projects Lead, Kenjgewin Teg.
Across Canada, every province and territory agrees: outdoor and land-based play belongs at the heart of children’s early learning.
Curriculum frameworks affirm in varied ways that outdoor environments are rich, intentional learning contexts, not supplements to the real program.
British Columbia’s framework embeds the First Peoples Principles of Learning. The Northwest Territories grounds its vision in Indigenous world views and learning from and with the…
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By Nathan TeBokkel, Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in English and Geography, Western University
The language of burnout turns up in agricultural records from more than 200 years ago, long before the term entered popular use.
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By Tilman Brück, Professor of Economic Development and Food Security, Humboldt University of Berlin
Karen Devries, Professor of Social Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Marcella Vigneri, Research Fellow, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Olusegun Fadare, Lecturer in Development Economics, University of Greenwich
Vegard Iversen, Professor of Development Economics and Head of Livelihoods & Institutions Department at the Natural Resources Institute (NRI), University of Greenwich
A child born into a community with a history of political unrest is at higher risk of abuse as they grow into a young adult.
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By Zoe Duby, Socio-behavioural public health researcher, South African Medical Research Council
Kate Bergh, Senior Scientist, South African Medical Research Council
Alcohol use among adolescent girls and young women cannot be separated from transactional sex, coercion and violence in high HIV-burden settings.
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By Geoffrey Howarth, Associate Professor, University of Cape Town
Some of the most extraordinary gems ever found belong to a rare class of diamonds known as CLIPPIRs (Cullinan-like, Large, Inclusion-Poor, Pure, Irregular, Resorbed). They make up less than 1% of all diamonds on Earth, and include three of the largest diamonds ever recovered, the Cullinan, at 3,106 carats, found at the Premier mine in South Africa; the 1,111 ct Lesedi…
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