How an ancient water tunnel design is cooling 21st-century streets
In Seville, 3,000-year-old underground technology is being transformed in modern day air-conditioning.
28/04/2024 Al Jazeera
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The budget has earmarked $8.6 million for live music. Is it enough to save the flailing industry?
The Australian live music industry is in crisis. Is $8.6 million for Revive Live enough to turn things around?
17/05/2024 The Conversation
There’s $110 million for Indigenous education in the budget. But where’s the evidence it will work?
There is a strong body of evidence about what works in Indigenous education. But budgets seem to keep ignoring research that says we need to listen to Indigenous people.
17/05/2024 The Conversation
ChatGPT is now better than ever at faking human emotion and behaviour
The ‘multimodal’ GTP-4o works with text, sound, images and video, all wrapped in a chatty interactive ‘personality’.
17/05/2024 The Conversation
Menopause can bring increased cholesterol levels and other heart risks. Here’s why and what to do about it
Before menopause, women’s hearts tend to be protected by their circulating hormones. In midlife, they may well get a shock when a doctor outlines their health risks.
17/05/2024 The Conversation
Homo Pentecostus: on queer intimacies, religion, ancestry and the human need for connection
If you’re in need of a queerly spiritual intervention, or more simply looking for a show that will stay with you, I urge you to experience Homo Pentecostus at Matlhouse.
17/05/2024 The Conversation
Want to be buried on your own land, at sea or in a forest? A guide to unconventional send-offs
Next-of-kin often feel pressured to make hasty funeral arrangements. Most contact a funeral director and tee up a conventional service plus burial or cremation. But what are the other options?
17/05/2024 The Conversation
As Cambodia launches $36.6bn building drive, China, Japan fight for spoils
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet has unveiled a 174-project master plan that has attracted bids by rival powers.
17/05/2024 Al Jazeera
Out with the old: Blue- and white- collar job labels aren’t cutting it anymore
Canada needs a taxonomy that’s more sophisticated and updated — one that can better describe the different types of jobs and workers that make up Canada’s modern labour market.
17/05/2024 The Conversation
Cancer drug pollution is a growing global concern
Modern pharmaceuticals have saved millions of lives, however, there is growing concern that these same drugs may pose a real ecological concern for human and non-human life alike.
16/05/2024 The Conversation
FDA Approves Amgen Drug for Persistently Deadly Form of Lung Cancer
The treatment is for patients with small cell lung cancer, which afflicts about 35,000 people in the U.S. a year.
16/05/2024 New York Times
Denser housing can be greener too – here’s how NZ can build better for biodiversity
The majority of 25 surveyed developments around New Zealand lacked healthy, ecologically meaningful vegetation. Applying biodiversity targets for medium-density housing could turn this around.
16/05/2024 The Conversation
If I’m diagnosed with one cancer, am I likely to get another?
That depends on a number of factors, including the cancer you had initially, as well as your genes, environment and lifestyle.
16/05/2024 The Conversation
We mapped a lost branch of the Nile River – which may be the key to a longstanding mystery of the pyramids
Why build pyramids in the desert? A centuries-old puzzle may be answered by the slow wandering of the Nile.
16/05/2024 The Conversation
Scientists find buried branch of the Nile that may have carried pyramids’ stones
Scientists have discovered a long-buried branch of the Nile River that once flowed alongside more than 30 pyramids in Egypt, potentially solving the mystery of how ancient Egyptians transported the massive stone blocks to build the monuments.
16/05/2024 The Guardian
Clean energy slump – why Australia’s renewables revolution is behind schedule, and how to fix it
Without a green energy transition Australia won’t meet its emissions reductions promises. But despite punching above its weight for years, the electricity sector isn’t transforming quickly enough.
16/05/2024 The Conversation
US drugs regulator gives LSD ‘breakthrough’ status for treating anxiety – why this is so significant
Having long been considered to have ‘no accepted medical use’, psychedelics are finally being recognised as being beneficial for treating a range of mental health disorders.
25/04/2024 The Conversation
Accents Are Emotional
16/05/2024 The Atlantic
US formally moves to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug in historic shift
16/05/2024 Le Monde
Scientists Calculated the Energy Needed to Carry a Baby. Shocker: It’s a Lot.
16/05/2024 New York Times