By Randall Wayth, SKA-Low Senior Commissioning Scientist and Adjunct Associate Professor, Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy, Curtin University
The SKA-Low radio telescope in Western Australia is slowly coming online. It will probe the shape of the universe and study cosmic mysteries.
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By Katie Ekberg, Senior Lecturer, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University
Barbra Timmer, Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Audiology, The University of Queensland
Many Australians experience hearing loss but hesitate to seek help. So what are the options if you need help with your hearing?
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By Marc C-Scott, Associate Professor of Screen Media | Deputy Associate Dean of Learning & Teaching, Victoria University
This month marks a decade since Netflix – the world’s most influential and widely subscribed streaming service – launched in Australia.
Since then the media landscape has undergone significant transformation, particularly in terms of how we consume content. According to a 2024 Deloitte report,…
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By Sascha Morrell, Lecturer in Literary Studies, Monash University
The Nickel Boys dramatises the real-life history of a segregated reform school in the segregated Jim Crow South: a front for coerced labour and scene of abuse.
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By Sun-Min Yu, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Polymer Science and Engineering, UMass Amherst
Steve Granick, Professor of Polymer Science and Engineering, UMass Amherst
Textbooks usually depict the epithelial cells encasing the interior and exterior of your body as passive barriers. But researchers discovered they can produce electrical signals like neurons.
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By Pierre Micheletti, Responsable du diplôme «Santé -- Solidarité -- Précarité» à la Faculté de médecine de Grenoble, Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)
The Trump administration’s sudden freeze of funding for USAID is an immediate disaster, but the economic model for international solidarity has been outdated for a long time.
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By Gary K. Waite, Professor Emeritus, Early Modern European History, University of New Brunswick
Far-right politics and Christian nationalism are on the rise in North America and Europe, leading to growing concerns about what it means for human rights and democracy.
As an historian of the demonizing language of the 16th century, I have been watching…
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By Jonathan Cazabonne, Doctorant en mycologie et écologie des vieilles forêts, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT)
Danny Haelewaters, Head of Laboratory of Fungal Ecology and Evolution, Biology Centre CAS, Institute of Entomology, Czech Academy of Sciences
Fungi are among the most important organisms on Earth. Even though most of the world’s described 157,000 fungal species are only visible with a microscope, these organisms are essential to our ecosystems, our societies and economies.
They break down organic matter and interact with all groups of organisms — including other fungi. They’re key actors in
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By Justin Stebbing, Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University
Imagine a world where bacteria, typically feared for causing disease, are turned into powerful weapons against cancer. That’s exactly what some scientists are working on. And they are beginning to unravel the mechanisms for doing so, using genetically engineered bacteria to target and destroy cancer cells.
Using bacteria to fight cancer dates back to the 1860s when William B. Coley, often called the father of immunotherapy,…
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By Sarah Curtis, Doctoral Candidate, Language use in Down Syndrome and Alzheimer's Disease, School of Arts and Humanities, Nottingham Trent University
Ten million people are diagnosed with dementia worldwide each year – that’s more than ever. According to the Alzheimer’s Society approximately one million people in the UK are currently living with the disease. Studies predict this figure will rise to 1.6 million people by 2050.
Alzheimer’s disease is the
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