By Susan Hazel, Associate Professor, School of Animal and Veterinary Science, University of Adelaide
Ana Goncalves Costa, Researcher, Animal Behaviour, Welfare and Anthrozoology Lab, University of Adelaide
Exhaustion. Sleep deprivation. Feeling depressed and guilty. Lingering doubts and regret. If you’ve had a puppy, this may all sound grimly familiar.
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By Claire Hooker, Senior Lecturer and Coordinator, Health and Medical Humanities, University of Sydney
Barbara Quayle, Vice-president of the Menindee Aboriginal Elders Council, Indigenous Knowledge
Dave Doyle, Barkindji/Malyangapa Indigenous Knowledge holder, Indigenous Knowledge
Reakeeta Smallwood, Senior Lecturer in Nursing, Indigenous and Population health, University of Sydney
The river’s health has been suffering, with a number of harrowing mass fish deaths events taking place in recent years.
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By Iva Glisic, Honorary Research Fellow, School of Humanities, The University of Western Australia
Sofi Oksanen draws on her family’s history of Soviet colonisation and reports of the war in Ukraine to argue Russia uses violence against women as a weapon of war.
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By James Renwick, Professor, Physical Geography (Climate Science), Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Warm air rises, but it also expands because air pressure decreases with height. The latter effect wins out and air becomes colder in the mountains.
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By Paul Harrison, Director, Master of Business Administration Program (MBA); Co-Director, Better Consumption Lab, Deakin University
You may have seen them around town or in the news. Bumper stickers on Teslas broadcasting to anyone who looks: “I bought this before we knew Elon was crazy.”
You might assume it’s there to prevent someone from keying the car or as an attempt to defuse potential hostility in a hyper-politicised landscape. But while it may signal disapproval to like-minded passersby, a sticker is unlikely to dissuade someone already intent on committing a crime…
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By Kathleen Garland, PhD Candidate, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University
Alistair Evans, Professor, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University
Bird beaks come in almost every shape and size – from the straw-like beak of a hummingbird to the slicing, knife-like beak of an eagle.
We have found, however, that this incredible diversity is underpinned by a hidden mathematical rule that governs the growth and shape of beaks in nearly all living birds.
What’s more, this rule even describes beak shape in the long-gone ancestors of birds – the dinosaurs. We are excited to share our findings, now published in the journal iScience.
By studying…
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By UntoldMag
While the world debates bombs and sanctions, Iran is quietly running out of water — its land cracked, lakes vanished, and millions forced into climate migration.
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By Ivona Hideg, Associate Professor and Ann Brown Chair in Organization Studies, York University, Canada
Tanja Hentschel, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior, Amsterdam Business School, University of Amsterdam
Winny Shen, Associate Professor of Organization Studies, York University, Canada
Although women have long been stereotyped as being “too emotional” for leadership roles, new research suggests it’s actually men who are more likely to let emotions drive their behaviour.
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By Jennie Pearson, PhD Candidate, Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program, University of British Columbia
Andrea Krüsi, Assistant Professor, School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University
Melody Wise, Master's Candidate, School of Community and Regional Planning, University of British Columbia
In Vancouver, converging municipal development agendas and unstable nonprofit funding frameworks have led to the closure of essential services for sex workers.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
A Dutton government would introduce new laws to disrupt organised crime and spend $355 million on a strike team to fight the illicit drug trade.
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