By Alice Godden, Senior Research Associate, School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia
Polar bears are expected to become extinct but there are some signs their DNA is changing and they are adapting to new temperatures.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Riot police barricade, Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, December 8, 2018. © 2018 Human Rights Watch On December 9, CIVICUS Monitor, a nongovernmental group assessing civic freedoms globally, downgraded France’s civic space from “narrowed” to “obstructed.”The downgrade is the result of years of attacks on civic space, marked by “escalating police violence, surveillance practices, and arrests of protesters, targeting of journalists, and persistent restrictions on fundamental rights,” according to CIVICUS. The French government is also increasingly using heavy-handed…
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By Tony Wood, Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute
The federal government has done a deal - underwritten by the taxpayer - to keep Australia’s largest aluminum smelter open. What’s the exit strategy if it doesn’t go to plan?
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By Sebastian Maslow, Associate Professor, International Relations, Contemporary Japanese Politics & Society, University of Tokyo
While diplomatic tensions between the two countries are not new, both have little to gain from the current dispute subsiding.
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By Francisco J. Monaldi, Wallace S. Wilson Fellow in Latin American Energy Policy, Rice University
Venezuela relies on the black-market oil trade for a large chunk of its revenue. US enforcement actions may push down the price it can charge, further squeezing the country’s economy.
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By Archana Koirala, Paediatrician and Infectious Diseases Specialist; Clinical Researcher, University of Sydney
Anthea Katelaris, Public Health Physician and Conjoint Senior Lecturer in the School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney
Phoebe Williams, Paediatrician & Infectious Diseases Physician; Senior Lecturer & NHMRC Fellow, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney
When you think about travel vaccines, you might think about ones for typhoid or cholera. But there are others you need to think about too.
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Thursday, December 11, 2025
Venezuela’s Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) has been implicated in a decade-long pattern of killings, arbitrary detentions, torture and sexual violence targeting protesters and opponents of President Nicolás Maduro, according to a new report from UN-appointed investigators on Thursday.
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By Samuel Cornell, PhD Candidate in Public Health & Community Medicine, School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney
Australians use social media to plan outdoor adventures. But travel influencers take risks to in remote locations . Are they putting followers in danger?
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By Vincent Ho, Associate Professor and Clinical Academic Gastroenterologist, Western Sydney University
Poo anxiety, bashful bowels, shy bowel syndrome: they’re all terms for what’s medically known as parcopresis or difficulty pooping when you’re not at home. The Germans have given a name to this condition: Heimscheißer (pronounced “heimscheisser”), which means “home shitter”.
Sufferers experience distress and anxiety at the mere thought of having to use a toilet at school, work or any public place. Some may even find it hard to poop while on holidays.
If forced to use a toilet…
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By Drew Rooke, Deputy Science + Technology Editor, The Conversation
Scientific misconduct can waste public funds and harm human health. But views differ about the best way to tackle it.
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