By Themiya Nanayakkara, Senior Lecturer in Astrophysics, University of Sydney
Manisha Caleb, Senior Lecturer in Astrophysics, University of Sydney
A flash of radio waves from a young galaxy 3 billion years after the Big Bang is lighting up 80% of the universe’s history.
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By Samuel Cornell, Research Fellow in Public Health, The University of Queensland
Here’s how parents can spot the difference between a boy who loves to train and one who has unhealthy feelings about his body.
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By Christophe Premat, Professor, Canadian and Cultural Studies, Stockholm University
Carson’s Nobel Prize in Literature celebrates a writer whose work returns to antiquity as an unfinished reservoir of images, voices and fragments capable of unsettling contemporary experience.
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By Oiwan Lam
DoD’s public document describes Alibaba as indirectly affiliated with China State Council's supervision body, and a “military-civil fusion contributor to the Chinese defense industrial base”.
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Thursday, October 8, 2026
Afghan women and girls are being arrested, detained and threatened with arrest by Taliban authorities, the UN warned on Thursday as record numbers of returnees struggle to rebuild their lives back home.
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Thursday, October 8, 2026
Older women around the world face violence, exploitation and neglect, yet remain largely invisible in the laws, policies, data and services designed to protect women overall, a UN independent human rights expert said on Thursday.
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By Esther Katz, Anthropologue, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD)
Eating insects is often seen as a last resort when people are starving, and yet, in the countries where they are widely consumed, they are often a rare delicacy, even a luxury.
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By Hannah Sarah Wauchope, Lecturer in Ecology & Conservation, University of Edinburgh
Gary David Powney, Quantitative Ecologist, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Nick Isaac, Macroecologist, Biodiversity Modelling & Analysis Group, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
The WWF’s Living Planet Index is one of our best measures of biodiversity loss. But the populations it counts may not be representative of wildlife as a whole.
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By Tony D Sampson, Reader in Digital Communication, University of Essex
In 2010, screenwriter Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Network charted the birth of social media. Sixteen years later his sequel, The Social Reckoning, is tracing the mutation of Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg (played by Jesse Eisenberg in the first film and Jeremy Strong in this sequel) from an awkward nerd into a sinister billionaire.
It’s a remarkable film. But Sorkin’s obsession with his monstrous characterisation of Zuckerberg at times obscures…
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By Gemma Ware, Head of Audio, The Conversation UK, The Conversation
From algae to a Nobel prize: listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast to hear Karl Deisseroth explain his brain science breakthrough.
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