By Erik Meijaard, Honorary Professor of Conservation, University of Kent
Kristofer M. Helgen, Adjunct professor, University of Technology Sydney
Tim Flannery, Honorary Fellow, Australian Museum
A plantation worker photographed this new genus of mammal in New Guinea, thought to have been dead for 6,000 years.
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By Emily Brayshaw, Honorary Research Fellow, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney
By creating a costume that can be taken off, even a ‘naked’ one, costume designers help create an important separation between the role and the actor.
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By Henrietta Byrne, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, University of Sydney
Alex Broom, Professor of Sociology & Director, Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, University of Sydney
Katherine Kenny, ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow, Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, University of Sydney
When your loved one is in palliative care, the last thing you want to think about is money. But new research shows financial stress at this difficult time is front and centre.
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By Andrew Weeks, Associate Senior Research Scientist, The University of Melbourne
Adam Miller, Associate Professor, Genomics and Genetics, RMIT University
Collin Ahrens, Visiting Fellow - Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University
Population crashes are dangerous and can be irreversible. But new research shows they are not always an evolutionary dead end.
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By Alan Brent, Professor and Chair in Sustainable Energy Systems, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
New Zealand could meet its electricity needs through renewables and avoid power shortages during dry years by combining battery systems with pumped hydro schemes.
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By Nick Haslam, Professor of Psychology, The University of Melbourne
An early figure in the psychoanalytic movement, Jung is often written off. But his ideas of the collective unconscious and emphasis on archetype and myth resonate.
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By Étienne Sinotte, PhD Student in Political Science, McGill University
Instability has come to define Peru’s political landscape, as successive congresses and presidents have become locked in a power struggle.
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By Kawser Ahmed, Adjunct Professor, Natural Resource Institute (NRI), University of Manitoba
The U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran raise uncomfortable questions about whether the post-1945 rules-based order still constrains the use of force by major powers.
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By Jeremy Wildeman, Adjunct assistant professor, Carleton University; L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
Mark Carney’s support for the U.S.-Israel war against Iran seems hypocritical, but it’s consistent with Canada’s longstanding support for a rules-based order that only applies when convenient.
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By Amnesty International
A year on from the detention of Fidel Antonio Zavala Pérez, a member and spokesperson for the Unidad de Defensa de Derechos Humanos y Comunitarios (UNIDEHC), Amnesty International expresses its concern regarding his prolonged pre-trial detention and the abusive use of criminal law against defenders and community leaders to criminalize the defence of human rights […] The post El Salvador: Concerns persist regarding the criminalization of human rights defender appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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