By Timothy Hearn, Lecturer, University of Cambridge; Anglia Ruskin University
An upside-down jellyfish drifts in a shallow lagoon, rhythmically contracting its translucent bell. By night that beat drops from roughly 36 pulses a minute to nearer 30, and the animal slips into a state that, despite its lack of a brain, resembles sleep.
Field cameras show it even takes a brief siesta around noon, to “catch up” after a disturbed night.
A new Nature Communications study has tracked these lulls in cassiopea…
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By Steve Turton, Adjunct Professor of Environmental Geography, CQUniversity Australia
Australia’s northwest is well known for its heat. But this furnace-like area can deliver heatwaves to the southeast, thousands of kilometres away.
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By Adam Simpson, Senior Lecturer in International Studies in the School of Society and Culture, Adelaide University
Nicholas Farrelly, Pro Vice-Chancellor, University of Tasmania
Five years ago, on February 1 2021, Myanmar’s top generals decapitated the elected government. Democratic leaders were arrested, pushed underground or forced into exile.
Since then, the economy has spluttered and foreign investors have headed for the exit. The only growth industries – mostly scam…
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By Adrian Dyer, Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, Monash University
Klaus Lunau, Professor, Institute of Sensory Ecology, Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf
Birds and bees see the world in different ways – and some flowers have evolved to take advantage of the gap in their perspectives.
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By Andrea Katz, Associate Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Louis
A US district judge is weighing whether the surge of ICE agents in the state violates the US Constitution or falls within the executive’s power to enforce federal law.
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By Sue Turnbull, Honorary Professor of Communication and Media Studies, University of Wollongong
Miss Kate Cocks, the real-life first policewoman in South Australia, is the star of Lainie Anderson’s historical crime novels – with a Phryne-Fisher-like offsider.
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By Jonathan Barrett, Professor of Taxation and Commercial Law, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
As Australia reforms laws that can inadvertently trap financial abuse victims, New Zealand must ask what protections – and risks – exist here.
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By Steven Sullivan, Director of the Hefner Museum of Natural History, Miami University
Groundhogs predict spring with the same accuracy as flipping a coin. But they’re vital to their ecosystems, feasting through summer to store enough fat to last through their winter hibernation.
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By Stefan Wolff, Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
There is talk of US ‘security guarantees’ to enforce a ceasefire in Ukraine. But there’s no sign the US president will get tough with his Russian counterpart.
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By John Wyver, Professor of the Arts on Screen, University of Westminster
After British television was established in 1926, it went on to foster a productively rich relationship with the arts, but coverage has seriously declined this century.
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