By Alex Lord, Professor, Lever Chair of Urban Planning, University of Liverpool
Local authority planners have to make sense of thousands of comments in response to proposals – so we created a tool to help them.
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By Flora Hui, Research Fellow, Centre for Eye Research Australia and Honorary Fellow, Department of Surgery (Ophthalmology), The University of Melbourne
Angelina Duan, Research Scientist, Optometry, CSIRO
Four in ten people live with astigmatism, which can cause blurred vision and eye strain. Here’s what you need to know.
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By Janelle K Johnstone, Associate Lecturer Crime, Justice and Legal Studies, PhD Candidate School of Social Inquiry, La Trobe University
Why is the image of the electric guitar hero so often a man, when women have been shredding the axe for nearly a century?
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By John Long, Strategic Professor in Palaeontology, Flinders University
A biography of scientists Carl Linnaeus and Georges-Louis LeClerc explores the complex, disparate lives of two brilliant men who shaped the study of natural history.
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By Gregory Moore, Senior Research Associate, School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences, The University of Melbourne
Have you ever examined timber floorboards and pondered why they look the way they do? Perhaps you admired the super-fine grain, a stunning red hue or a swirling knot, and wondered how it came to be?
Or perhaps you don’t know what tree species your floorboards are made from, and how to best look after them?
Finely polished floorboards reveal detail about the timber that can be much harder to detect in unpolished boards or other sawn timbers.
“Reading” the knots, stubs and other characteristics of floorboards can reveal what type of tree produced it and how it…
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By Robert Hortle, Deputy Director, Tasmanian Policy Exchange, University of Tasmania
There’s a lot at stake for the island state, which desperately needs budget repair and improved services - but you wouldn’t know it from the lacklustre campaign.
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By Amnesty International
Reacting to the latest legislative amendments in Russia, which include a new draft law that enables the designation of any community or organization as “extremist” without a court order, and another bill that envisages administrative penalties for simply searching for or accessing “extremist materials” online, Marie Struthers, Amnesty International’s Director for Eastern Europe and Central […] The post Russia: Proposed amendments to counter-extremism laws escalate assault on dissent appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Are Skeie Hermansen, Professor of Sociology, University of Oslo
Andrew Penner, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Irvine
Marta M. Elvira, Profesora Ordinaria de Direccion Estrategica y Dirección de Personas, IESE Business School (Universidad de Navarra)
As many countries grapple with ageing populations, falling birthrates, labour shortages and fiscal pressures, the ability to successfully integrate immigrants is becoming an increasingly pressing matter.
However, our new study found that salaries of immigrants in Europe and North America are nearly 18% lower than those of natives, as foreign-born workers struggle to access higher-paying jobs. To reach this conclusion, we analysed the salaries of 13.5 million people in nine immigrant-receiving countries:…
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By Aishwarya Veerabahu, Ph.D. Candidate in Botany, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Kits that help people grow their own golden oyster mushrooms at home may be one reason this nonnative species is now spreading in the wild.
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By Felia Allum, Professor of Comparative Organised Crime and Corruption, University of Bath
The legendary agenda rossa contained extensive notes on how organised crime operated in a particularly turbulent period in Italian history.
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