A student’s visa has been cancelled for links to ‘weapons of mass destruction’
May 15, 2024 07:24 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Over the weekend, Queensland University of Technology PhD student Xiaolong Zhu became national news and not for a good reason. Zhu is a Chinese citizen, and his visa to study in Australia has been denied on the grounds of...
The 2023 Sir Paul Curran award for academic journalism goes to Barbara Sahakian
May 15, 2024 07:23 am UTC| Insights & Views Business
Barbara Sahakian, Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology at the University of Cambridge and author of Bad Moves and Sex, Lies, Brain Scans, has spent her academic career finding out what makes us tick. If youve ever...
Protecting wildlife begins with understanding how best to counter wildlife crimes
May 15, 2024 07:23 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Global biodiversity is declining, and human activities are mainly to blame. Indeed, 96 per cent of the worlds total remaining mammalian biomass the combined weight, or mass, of mammal organic life consists of either...
Why US offshore wind energy is struggling
May 11, 2024 12:14 pm UTC| Insights & Views Business
Americas first large-scale offshore wind farms began sending power to the Northeast in early 2024, but a wave of wind farm project cancellations and rising costs have left many people with doubts about the industrys future...
Doing a job you find meaningful is great – until it consumes your life
May 11, 2024 12:14 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
Securing a job that you find meaningful work that you think is significant and value positively may be one of your most important career goals. But there can be a negative side to doing work that youre passionate...
Divesting university endowments: Easier demanded than done
May 11, 2024 10:33 am UTC| Insights & Views Business
Campus protests expressing solidarity with the Palestinian people and objecting to Israels military campaign in Gaza include many calls for universities and colleges to divest a word that basically means sell any of...
New faith schools in England could soon allocate all their places on religious grounds
May 09, 2024 08:09 am UTC| Insights & Views Business
The government has proposed dropping the cap on faith admissions for new and existing free faith schools in England. This would mean that oversubscribed faith schools in this category those established as new academies,...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects