The Conversation

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 ...

By Veronica Edmonds-Brown It might surprise you to know that the River Thames is considered one of the world’s cleanest rivers running through a city. What’s even more ...

Harriet Fletcher, Lancaster University “If you remember the ‘60s, you weren’t really there”. This famous quip says much about our rose-tinted nostalgia for the decade. The fun-loving hedonism of ...

By Jodi McAlister and and Kate Cuthbert, The first season of steamy romance series, Bridgerton achieved immense popularity – it is Netflix’s second-most watched television series of all time, beaten ...

By Matthew Flinders After months of dodging the issue, it appears that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson did in fact break his own emergency laws during COVID restrictions. The police ...

By John Dumay, Cristiana Bernardi and Stephanie Perkiss What do Beyond Good, Alter Eco, Tony’s Chocolonely and Whittaker’s all have in common? Besides producing delicious chocolate, they are ...

By Laura Brown, Everybody knows that consuming too much salt is bad for your health. But nobody ever mentions the potential impact of the other condiment in the cruet set: ...

By Victor Ongoma Climate change is a threat to all aspects of our lives. Every degree of global warming is likely to increase the intensity and frequency of climate extremes, ...