By Marina Yue Zhang, Associate Professor, Technology and Innovation, University of Technology Sydney
There are some big gaps in Australia’s policy settings if we are going to catch up on new AI-powered robotics.
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By Fiona Longmuir, Senior Lecturer - Co-leader Education Workforce for the Future Impact Lab, Monash University
Tim Delany, Research Fellow, Education, Monash University
Teachers need to spend a lot of time face-to-face with students. But they also do a significant amount of work beyond the classroom.
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By Avril Horne, Research fellow, Department of Infrastructure Engineering, The University of Melbourne
Nick Bond, Professor of Freshwater Ecology and Director of the Centre for Freshwater Ecosystems, La Trobe University
Robert Morden, Researcher, hydrology and ecology, The University of Melbourne
If you stand beside Seven Creeks in Victoria or Spring Creek in Queensland, they might seem small and unremarkable. But these creeks flow into the mighty Goulburn and Condamine Rivers, and punch far above their weight.
Small headwater creeks, at the beginning of a river network, act as the first source of water for bigger rivers. Headwaters deliver the first cool winter flows and the large seasonal pulses of water that trigger fish migration, setting the river’s rhythm. But they’re also the first to suffer from drought, heatwaves and water captured by thousands of small farm dams.
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By Jean-Christophe Bélisle-Pipon, Assistant Professor in Health Ethics, Simon Fraser University
In cases like the Tumbler Ridge shooter’s flagged ChatGPT account, Canada lacks a legal framework for assigning responsibility when an AI company possesses information that could prevent violence.
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By Bethan Davies, Professor of Glaciology, Newcastle University
In the Antarctic Peninsula, precipitation is increasingly falling as rain rather than snow, with consequences for glaciers, penguins and even scientists.
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By Mike Shriberg, Professor of Practice & Engagement, School for Environment & Sustainability; Director of the University of Michigan Water Center, University of Michigan
The issue in front of the US Supreme Court is seemingly mundane, about federal or state jurisdiction. But it is actually much bigger, encompassing some key questions of the 21st century.
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By Marc Zimmer, Professor of Chemistry, Connecticut College
Researchers have been studying tens of thousands of proteins and even more variations without a yardstick to compare their results.
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By Mayank Kejriwal, Research Assistant Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering, University of Southern California
Humans and AIs have different methods of calculating words about probability like ‘maybe’ and ‘likely’ – and different interpretations about what they mean.
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By Aniko Bodroghkozy, Professor of Media Studies, University of Virginia
Renee Good and Alex Pretti, two white Minneapolis residents killed in January 2026 by federal agents while protesting the Trump administration’s immigration policy, have become household names. National media outlets continue to focus on their deaths and the circumstances around them.
Neither of them was the first person to be shot and killed by immigration enforcement officials…
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By John J. Martin, Assistant Professor of Law, Quinnipiac University
A gobsmacking amount of money is spent on federal elections in the US. The credit or blame for that reaches back to a landmark, 50-year-old Supreme Court decision.
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