By Prudence Flowers, Senior Lecturer in US History, College of Human Sciences and Culture, Flinders University
Despite a long history of being pro-choice, Pauline Hanson is adopting an array of Trumpian tactics – including trying to wind back abortion access.
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By Holly Seale, Professor, School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney
Bianca Middleton, Senior Research Fellow, Global and Tropical Health Division, Menzies School of Health Research
Md Saiful Islam, Lecturer, School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney
The first half of 2026 has been marked by three different disease outbreaks: Ebola, hantavirus and, in Australia, diphtheria. Each has exposed vulnerabilities in how we detect,…
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By Sherine Al Shallah, Doctoral Researcher, Refugee Cultural Heritage and Connected Rights Protection | Affiliate, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law | Associate, Australian Human Rights Institute, UNSW Sydney
Cultural heritage is often treated as an unfortunate casualty of war. In reality, the destruction of significant historic sites is often a deliberate and calculated part of broader efforts to claim power and territory.
Recent attacks on cultural heritage in southern Lebanon show us why protecting historic monuments is important, and inseparable from protecting the communities connected to them.
Attacks…
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By Cassandra Pattinson, Senior Research Fellow, Child Health Research Centre, The University of Queensland
Sleep can be one of the trickiest things for families. New research closely examines the relationship between sleep and screen-use in young children.
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By Nathan Butterworth, Associate Research Fellow in Insect Ecology, Deakin University
Keith M. Bayless, Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO
“Love makes fools of all of us,” wrote 19th-century novelist William Makepeace Thackeray. A moment spent watching the pigeons at your local park suggests he was right: males with puffed-up, shimmering necks hop, pirouette, coo, and bow to capture the attention of unimpressed females.
But why do male pigeons express themselves through the passion of dance? The concept of sexual selection, first proposed by Charles Darwin, suggests that through…
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By Judy Ingham, Newsletter Producer, The Conversation
Every day, we publish a selection of your emails in our newsletter. We’d love to hear from you, you can email us at yoursay@theconversation.edu.au.
Monday June 15
Brushing your teeth in hospital
“I found it disconcerting to read that a special initiative was required to prevent hospital-acquired pneumonia. It reflects very badly on the nursing profession, or is this another impact factor…
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By Katarina Ost, PhD Student, School of Epidemiology and Public Health, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
Manisha A. Kulkarni, Professor, School of Epidemiology and Public Health, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
Researchers placed woodchips along the side of two trails in the Ottawa Greenbelt and found that the woodchips notably lowered the number of ticks.
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By (Reva) Laurel Young, Professor of Music Therapy, Concordia University
Music has value in dementia care, but re-envisioning its role beyond treatment involves engaging individuals in music experiences that foster self-expression, identity and meaningful interactions.
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By Teresa Behrend Fletcher, Professor/Director of Sport and Human Performance program, Adler University
Team sports like soccer or hockey can include situational pressures on specific positions such as goalies or anyone taking a penalty shot.
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By Thomas M. Pitot, Chercheur postdoctoral en microbiologie, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC)
Catherine Girard, Professeure-Chercheure en microbiologie, Université Laval
Viruses play a major role in the functioning of ecosystems. They profoundly influence the dynamics of microbial communities, flow of matter and global biogeochemical cycles. Yet despite their abundance and ecological importance, many of them have long remained invisible to science.
This gap is largely due to the methods environmental virologists have used —isolating viruses by filtering out larger organisms from natural samples.
This approach was effective for isolating most viruses we knew about.…
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