By Tod Jones, Senior Lecturer, Human Geography, Curtin University
Amity James, Associate Professor and Discipline Lead Property, Curtin University
Michael Volgger, Professor, School of Management and Marketing, Faculty of Business and Law, Curtin University
Salome Adams, Researcher, Curtin University
Sara Niner, Senior Lecturer and Researcher, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
Seasonal workers are often considered to be expendable, cheap labour. New research across three states has found they’re also subject to crowded accommodation.
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By Amanda Kvalsvig, Research Associate Professor of Public Health, University of Otago
Anna-Maria Arabia, Chief executive
Unchecked airborne infections cost billions in lost health and productivity each year – likely more than the cost of better ventilation to clean up indoor air.
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By Jacqueline Burgess, Lecturer in International Business, University of the Sunshine Coast
The video game company is being acquired for a record-breaking US$55 billion. Despite being named ‘The Worst Company in America’, why is it so in-demand?
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By Mireya Mayor, Director of Exploration and Science Communication, Florida International University
Anyone proposing to offer a master class on changing the world for the better, without becoming negative, cynical, angry or narrow-minded in the process, could model their advice on the life and work of pioneering animal behavior scholar Jane Goodall.
Goodall’s life journey stretches from marveling at the somewhat unremarkable creatures – though she would never call them that – in her English backyard as a wide-eyed little girl in the 1930s to challenging the very definition of what it means to be human…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Former Mali Prime Minister Moussa Mara in Bamako, on February 21, 2025. © 2025 Ousmane Makaveli/AFP via Getty Images On Tuesday, former Prime Minister Moussa Mara stood calmly before a court in Mali’s capital, Bamako, while the judges rejected his lawyers’ application for his release on bail. The prosecution instead sought a two-year prison sentence, an action encapsulating the military junta’s crackdown on political opposition and dissent.Security forces arrested Mara, prime minister for eight months between 2014 and 2015, on August 1, following…
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By Maasago M. Sepadi, PhD in public health, Tshwane University of Technology
Martha Chadyiwa, Associate Professor of Public Health , Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University
Students at South African universities have to deal with a disturbing reality. They face the threat of violent crime, in particular gender-based violence. They also battle with substandard infrastructure – some of it life threatening. And institutions aren’t ready to respond.
We are academics in environmental health and public health. Our work examines occupational health and safety in educational environments.…
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By Barnaby Joseph Dye, Lecturer, King's College London
Udisha Saklani, Lecturer, King's College London
Dams have been emblematic of the World Bank’s approach to development for many decades. From the bank’s early years in the 1960s and 1970s, large-scale infrastructure projects such as dams, power plants and transport networks were central to its strategy for economic growth and poverty reduction. This reflected a top-down modernisation paradigm.
But the controversial social, economic and environmental impacts of dams sparked widespread criticism. This prompted internal…
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By Fred Stauffer, Curator, Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de Genève (CJBG)
Doudjo Noufou Ouattara, Associate Professor at Université Nangui ABROGOUA, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, and Research Associate at the Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques en Côte d'Ivoire specializing in Palms family (Arecaceae), Nangui Abrogoua University
Kifouli Adéoti, Lecturer in the Faculty of Science and Technology, University d'Abomey-Calavi de Bénin
Palms play a vital role in food, culture and livelihoods. A new pan-African network aims to study, protect and conserve the continent’s unique and rare palm trees.
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By Rachel Woods, Senior Lecturer in Physiology, University of Lincoln
When María Branyas Morera died in 2024 at the age of 117, she left more than memories. She left science a gift: samples of her microbiome.
Researchers discovered her gut was as diverse as someone decades younger: rich in beneficial bacteria linked to resilience and longevity. Her daily yoghurt habit and Mediterranean diet may have helped. While we can’t all inherit “lucky genes”, nurturing our microbiome may be one way to support lifelong health.
In a recent paper in Cell…
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By Marie-Louise Crawley, Assistant Professor in Dance and Cultural Engagement, Coventry University
The image is stark and shocking. A decapitated head, her eyes open, her mouth agape in a silent scream, her hair a nest of still-hissing snakes. Blood pours out from her severed neck. She is not quite alive, but she is not yet dead either.
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio’s Head of Medusa (1597) remains one of the most memorable…
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