Human wildlife conflict is a complex issue globally. Whether it’s mountain gorillas stealing bananas from farmers on the edge of Bwindi National Park in Uganda, or a pack of grey wolves raiding a...
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Another ‘Roaring Twenties’? Only if the Rich Pay Their Fair Share
Are we about to enter another ‘Roaring Twenties’? Some experts certainly think so. In a recent article, the Bank of England chief economist Andy Haldane said the UK economy was “poised like...
I was the Australian Doctor on the WHO’s COVID-19 Mission to...
As I write, I am in hotel quarantine in Sydney, after returning from Wuhan, China. There, I was the Australian representative on the international World Health Organization’s (WHO) investigation into...
From Duck Houses to Nuclear Weapons: What we Know Because of the...
Over the past 20 years, Freedom of Information legislation has helped expose many abuses of power, but now it’s under threat. What are ministers claiming expenses for? How much do oil companies pay...
Global White Supremacy Cult: Qanon – The South African...
Amid the maelstrom of footage emerging from the 6 January insurrection at the US Capitol in Washington DC, a video of a white South African rioter emerged, much to the surprise of many...
Gene-Edited Crops Are Now a Reality – But Will The Public be on...
Once the UK left the EU, it would be free to invest in gene editing of crops and livestock to “feed the world”. That’s what the prime minister, Boris Johnson, told the House of Commons in 2019. And...
21st-Century Lobbying: How Big Data Lets Big Businesses Get The...
In July Facebook was fined US$5.1bn by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for not being honest about how it was handling user data. The personal data of 87 million of its users had been harvested...
Mars: Perseverance Rover Set for Nail-Biting Landing – Here’s...
Following “seven minutes of terror,” after it reaches Mars’ upper atmosphere, Nasa’s Perseverance rover is expected to land on the surface of the red planet at 20:55 GMT on February 18. This...
Will Humans Go Extinct? For all the Existential Threats, We’ll...
Will our species go extinct? The short answer is yes. The fossil record shows everything goes extinct, eventually. Almost all species that ever lived, over 99.9%, are extinct. Some left descendants...
Tim Berners-Lee’s Plan to Save the Internet: Give us Back...
Releasing his creation for free 30 years ago, the inventor of the world wide web, Tim Berners-Lee, famously declared: “this is for everyone”. Today, his invention is used by billions – but it also...
Why We Should Be Wary Of Blaming ‘Overpopulation’ For The...
The annual World Economic Forum in Davos brought together representatives from government and business to deliberate how to solve the worsening climate and ecological crisis. The meeting...
Giant Ancient Sharks Had Enormous Babies That Ate Their Siblings...
Made famous by the 2018 blockbuster The Meg, the largest predatory shark ever discovered, the megalodon is a bit of a mystery. We know it lived between 15 and 3.6 million years ago and it reached at...
How Do Pandemics End? History Suggests Diseases Fade But Are...
When will the pandemic end? All these months in, with over 37 million COVID-19 cases and more than 1 million deaths globally, you may be wondering, with increasing exasperation, how long...
Parasites: What Causes Some Species to Evolve to Exploit Others?
If you saw the first episode of David Attenborough’s new BBC series Perfect Planet, you will have seen the astounding bloodsucking behaviour of the vampire finches. These small birds exist only...
Trump is Out, But US Evangelicalism Remains Alive and Well in...
On the day before the 2020 US presidential election, Reverend Kenneth Meshoe, the leader of the African Christian Democratic Party in South Africa, tweeted: Please pray… for President...
Explainer: Why is the South China Sea Such a Hotly Contested...
In the past week, both the US and Australia rejected large parts of China’s extensive maritime claims in the South China Sea, as well as territorial claims by any state to...
315 Nuclear Bombs and Ongoing Suffering: the Shameful History of...
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be aware this article contains the name of a deceased person. The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons received its 50th ratification...
Wormholes May be Lurking in the Universe – and New Studies are...
Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity profoundly changed our thinking about fundamental concepts in physics, such as space and time. But it also left us with some deep mysteries...
How to Tell if Your Dog is a Genius
Anyone who has lived with a dog will know their capacity for learning the meaning of words, even ones you don’t want them to know. How many times have you had to spell the words “walk” or “dinner” in...
News UK TV and GB News: New Channels Stoke Fears of More...
The imminent arrival of two new current affairs channels is fuelling heated debate about the future direction of broadcast journalism in the UK. GB News is chaired by former newspaper editor and BBC...