The Conversation

By Philippa Martyr It’s hard to measure the impact of any one drug on world history. But here are five drugs we can safely say made a huge difference ...

By Parveen Akhtar In 1989, Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeini, who led the Islamic revolution in Iran ten years earlier, issued a fatwa – a religious edict – calling for the death of ...

By Hiroko Oe At the start of the 1600s, Japan’s rulers feared that Christianity – which had recently been introduced to the southern parts of the country by European missionaries – ...

By Michele Groppi The killing of the al-Qaida leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in Kabul by a US drone strike on July 31 raises some crucial questions. It appears the ruling Taliban were ...

Why this particle could unlock new physics beyond the standard model By Martin Bauer and Stephen Jones Ten years ago, scientists announced the discovery of the Higgs boson, which helps ...

By Dorian Llywelyn Ever since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, analysts picking apart Vladimir Putin’s motives and messaging about the war have looked to religion for ...

By Neil Rusch & Sarah Wurz Archaeologists spend a lot of time examining the remains of distant pasts, which includes the study of rock paintings. This is largely visual work – ...

By Stefan Wolff Against a backdrop of unprecedented turmoil – the first major war in Europe in three decades, the highest inflation rates in decades and a rapidly worsening global food ...

Is time travel real, or just science fiction asks Jo Adetunji At the beginning of the new Disney Pixar film, Lightyear, Buzz Lightyear gets stranded on a dangerous faraway planet ...

By Jo Adetunji The accelerating loss of other species around the globe is so extensive that many experts now refer to it as the sixth mass extinction. It’s driven ...

By Ben McCann 40 years ago this month saw the release of Steven Spielberg’s E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial – a film about a stranded alien, the boy called Elliott who discovers ...

By Jo Adetunji Rapid climate change has the potential to strongly influence the physiology, behaviour and breeding success of animals. Research is showing that increasing temperatures, for instance, are having ...

By Philip Williamson, Durham University Queen Elizabeth II is the first British monarch to celebrate a platinum jubilee, marking her 70 years on the throne. Like all jubilees since the first ...

Imogene Smith, Deakin University and Jacqui Macdonald, Deakin University For many dads, having a child is unplanned. What happens next can vary. One man said: We broke up and she ...

By Ann Borda, Andreea Molnar, Cristina Neesham and Prof Patty Kostkova When a new coronavirus emerged from nature in 2019, it changed the world. But Covid-19 won’t be the last ...

By Jo Adetunji Up to 30 per cent of people with depression don’t respond to treatment with antidepressants. This may be down to differences in biology between patients and the ...

By Susan Landau When Politico published Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion that would undo Roe v. Wade, a number of commentators observed how hard it would be ...

By Jo Adetunji Restaurant menus across the West Coast of Canada will soon see an influx of squid and sardine dishes, while the popular sockeye salmon makes a slow exit. ...

By Jo Adetunji In the context of work, the digital divide has become less about access to devices and connectivity and more about skills and mindset. Many experienced professionals have ...

By Harriette Richards, In the course of her Met Gala attendances, Kim Kardashian has worn floral Givenchy (attending for the first time in 2013, pregnant with her first child), silver Balmain, ...

Holly Thorpe, University of Waikato; Agatha Gibbons, University of Waikato, and Stacy T. Sims, University of Waikato Last weekend’s LPGA event in California will likely be remembered as much ...

By Craig Jackson The resignation of Conservative MP Neil Parish has left many people wondering what could possibly lead someone to think it acceptable to watch pornography in their place ...

By Bronwyn Eager, Announce to your friends and family that you’re choosing to live in your vehicle and you’re likely to raise some concern. The 2017 book “Nomadland: Surviving ...

In the past few years, people across the world have spent more time on video chat programs like Zoom and FaceTime than ever before. These applications mimic in-person encounters by ...