By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo arrives at the Government Complex in Seoul, March 24, 2025. © 2025 Heon-Kyun Jeon /Pool Photo via AP Photo South Korea’s Constitutional Court’s reinstatement of Han Duck-soo as prime minister yesterday, overturning his impeachment, is a significant development in the country’s political crisis. But despite superficial similarities, Han’s case bears little resemblance to that of suspended President Yoon Suk Yeol, who was impeached in December for imposing martial law. The court is expected to rule on Yoon’s case…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Tomoya Asanuma (center) appears alongside his legal counsel at a press conference after filing a lawsuit on "hostage justice" at the Tokyo District Court on March 24, 2025. The mannequin next to him represents Yo Amano, who has been detained without trial for over six years. © 2025 Lalasa Tomita/Human Rights Watch Four survivors of Japan’s “hostage justice” filed a lawsuit at the Tokyo District Court on March 24, contending that the Code of Criminal Procedure provisions allowing prolonged pretrial detention and denial of bail violate the Japanese Constitution.Under…
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By Lucy Montgomery, Dean of Research, Humanities, Curtin University
Emilia C. Bell, PhD Candidate, School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry, Curtin University
Karl Huang, Director, Centre for Culture and Technology & Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative, Curtin University
In December 2024, the editorial board of the Journal of Human Evolution resigned en masse following disagreements with the journal’s publisher, Elsevier. The board’s grievances included claims of inadequate copyediting, misuse of artificial intelligence (AI), and the high fees charged to make research articles publicly available.
The previous year, more than 40 scientists who made up the entire academic board of a leading journal for brain imaging also…
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By Carolyn Nickson, Adjunct Associate Professor, The Daffodil Centre, a joint venture between the University of Sydney and Cancer Council NSW, and Associate Professor, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, University of Sydney
Bruce Mann, Professor of Surgery, Specialist Breast Surgeon, The University of Melbourne
Karen Canfell, Professor & NHMRC Leadership Fellow, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney
A fundamental shake-up of how we screen women for breast cancer could save more lives from the disease. Here are some options of how this could look.
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By Tim Brodribb, Professor of Plant Physiology, University of Tasmania
Plants shape Earth’s atmosphere by moving carbon and water vapour. New research sheds light on how they learned to do it – and how it may change in future climates.
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By Sam Whiting, Vice-Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow in Music Industries and Cultural Economy, RMIT University
Ben Green, Lecturer in Music Industry and Popular Culture, RMIT University
The newly launched Australian Music Venue Foundation is partly modelled on the United Kingdom’s Music Venue Trust, but the UK model has a more radical approach.
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By Nick Haslam, Professor of Psychology, The University of Melbourne
A staggering rise in the prevalence of many medical conditions and the cultural attention we pay them is the subject of a new book, The Age of Diagnosis.
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By Adam Taylor, Professor of Anatomy, Lancaster University
Eating undercooked meat is never a good idea – it can give you a nasty case of food poisoning within 24 hours. And there are other, longer-term risks to be wary of too.
Spare a thought for the patient who attended a Florida hospital to be X-rayed following a fall – only to discover he was riddled with parasitic eggs that had turned into thousands of cysts inside his body.
Sam Ghali, an urgent care doctor from the…
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By Erin O'Halloran, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge
How the bold, hopeful visions of self-determination in Britain’s eastern colonies curdled into a more militant nationalism by the end of the second world war.
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By Guglielmo Lulli, Professor in Network Analytics, Lancaster University
In 2024, Heathrow was the busiest airport in Europe by passenger numbers and the fourth busiest worldwide. Nearly 84 million passengers passed through its five terminals during the year. These figures highlight the scale of disruption caused by its recent complete closure after a fire…
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