By Ayesha Jehangir, Lecturer, Journalism and Communication, UNSW
Directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor offer us a look inside the systems used by the Israeli military to target Palestinians.
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By Rachael King, Head of Research, South Australian Museum
In the 1980s and 1990s, the hardy redclaw crayfish was exported from Australia around the world. But escapee yabbies have become a nightmare.
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By Niraj Meisuria, PhD Candidate, Disease Ecology Lab and Global Ecology Lab, University of Sydney
Thomas Newsome, Associate Professor, Global Ecology, University of Sydney
When scientists talk about scavengers, you might imagine an animal sniffing out or stumbling across a carcass, eating as much as possible, and slinking away.
But like all foods, a dead animal holds a variety of macronutrients – carbohydrates, lipids (fats), and protein – all within the same carcass, or meal. Just as an egg has a high-protein white and a higher fat yolk, carcasses are similar.
Scavengers are typically thought of as unfussy scroungers that will eat whatever is available, but our new research…
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By Maggie Nolan, Director of AustLit, Associate Professor in Digital Cultural Heritage, The University of Queensland
A riches to rags tale written by a convict was published in Hobart in 1830. On mainland Australia, an Irish widow published a gothic melodrama in 1838.
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By Fred D. Ledley, Director, Center for Integration of Science and Industry, Bentley University
The Trump administration exerted increased political control over NIH research funding, leading to major cuts and disruptions to lifesaving research.
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By Karin Sowada, Senior Lecturer in Archaeology and Director of the Australian Centre for Egyptology, Macquarie University
There’s little left of the ship itself but based on clues from its cargo, a research team has tentatively dated the wreck to around 2700–2400 BCE.
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By Sarah Cook, Professor of Museum Studies, University of Glasgow
The cover of a new report on AI from a US museum thinktank restyles the Sistine Chapel’s Creation of Adam, with the hand of God replaced by a Terminator-style robotic one. So far so obvious.
In Remuseum’s Five Ways AI Can Humanise Museums, AI has presumably replaced God as the enabler of all things. But who is Adam’s hand supposed to represent: the museum visitor or the museum worker?
Or could…
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By Sam Edwards, Reader in Modern Political History, Loughborough University
It’s surely no surprise that amid today’s geopolitical turmoil, filmmakers are turning to the events of the cold war for inspiration. A flurry of productions set in the 1980s have been released just this year.
See, for instance, The Brink of War, a political drama focused on the 1986 summit at Reykjavik between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail…
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By Adam Kenneth Dubé, Associate Professor of Learning Sciences, Faculty of Education, McGill University
Teens use AI every day to help them learn, but new data shows they are falling years behind. Governments cannot afford to wait to regulate AI.
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By Chloe Brimicombe, Postdoctoral Researcher, Climate Science, University of Oxford
The UK could be in for a wet and stormy autumn followed by a colder, calmer winter – and an unusually powerful El Niño may be partly responsible.
El Niño is a natural climate pattern in the tropical Pacific, but its effects can be felt around the world. This year’s event is already the strongest on record, and is expected to strengthen further before peaking later this year.
El Niño is the warm phase of the El…
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