The NDP is MIA on bold labour proposals

By Adam D.K. King

Many social democrats, progressives and others on the left have been approaching Canadas federal election campaign with considerable apprehension. According to the latest polls, the federal New Democratic Party is in a...

Another stolen generation looms unless Indigenous women fleeing violence can find safe housing

By Kyllie Cripps Et Al

In Western Australia more than half the children placed in state care are Aboriginal. The state government committed this month to reducing this over-representation, in a move that parallels the Closing the Gap Refresh...

Your brain has 'landmarks' that drive neural traffic and help you make hard decisions

By Caio Seguin Et Al

Brain regions exchange information by sending and receiving signals through a network of nerve connections. This exchange is crucial to all aspects of the brains functioning, including how we experience the world, form...

'An insult' – politicians sing the praises of the cashless welfare card, but those forced to use it disagree

By Eve Vincent

This is a bit controversial, we know that, deputy prime minister Michael McCormick told the National Partys federal council, which on the weekend voted for a national roll-out of cashless debit cards for anyone younger...

Civilization: The Way We Live Now – powerful, troubling photographs of a crowded planet and uncertain future

By Sasha Grishin

In 1955, an enormous photographic exhibition, The Family of Man, challenged the world as to what it meant to be human. The curator, Edward Steichen, assembled 503 photographs by 273 photographers from 68 countries, while...

Keeping the city cool isn't just about tree cover – it calls for a commons-based climate response

By Abby Mellick Lopes Et Al

This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story. A recent report by the Greater Sydney Commission singles out urban heat as...

Suddenly, the world's biggest trade agreement won't allow corporations to sue governments

By Pat Ranald

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership has been touted as the best hope for keeping world trade flowing after the attacks on the World Trade Organisation. The WTO isnt dead yet, but in a two-pronged attack, US...

Using technology to support caregivers of older people with dementia

By Janet Fast

In June, the government of Canada released its long-awaited Dementia Strategy for Canada: Together We Aspire. As a family caregiving researcher for more than two decades and a former family caregiver to my Dad, who had...

Israel elections: who women vote for and how it's shifting

By Einat Gedalya-Lavy

Israelis are about to head to the polls in a unique election. The vote on September 17 is the first time Israelis will vote in two elections in the same year, after the Likud party, led by Prime Minister Benjamin...

Midlevel workers: Africa's unsung health heroes need more support

By Ian Couper

Midlevel health workers can play an important role in addressing shortages of health professionals and improving access to care. This is especially true in low and middle-income countries. These workers fill a niche...

Smart cities could give the visually impaired a new outlook on urban life

By Drishty Sobnath Et Al

Travelling to work, meeting friends for a catch up or just doing some shopping are often taken for granted by people with no known disabilities. For the visually impaired, these seemingly simple things can be a serious...

There's a way for modern medicine to cure diseases even when the treatments aren't profitable

By James Leahy

Strides in medicine have contributed to a dramatic increase in life expectancy over the last century. Diseases like HIV and cervical cancer that were essentially death sentences as recently as 30 years ago can now be...

3 countries where Trump is popular

By Monti Datta

President Donald Trump is one of the most controversial world leaders in modern times, igniting the ire of Americas staunchest allies. Whether its the proposed Muslim ban, the U.S. border wall and immigration, or his...

How Congress turns citizens' voices into data points

By Samantha McDonald

Big technology companies like Amazon, Facebook and Google arent the only ones facing huge political concerns about using citizen data: So is Congress. Reports by congressional researchers over the last decade describe an...

Flavored e-cigarettes not only lure kids with sweet taste but lead them to dismiss danger, studies suggest

By Leah Ranney

New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced Sept. 15, 2019 that he plans to pursue emergency regulations to quickly ban the sale of flavored e-cigarettes, making New York the second state to consider such a ban. Cuomos action...

Why more companies are going dog friendly

By Holly Patrick

Bringing pet dogs into the workplace is becoming increasingly common. Large companies like Google, Ticketmaster and challenger bank Monzo are just a few that have joined companies in the pet sector (like Pets at Home) that...

What neuroscientists are learning about our brains in space by launching themselves into zero gravity flight

By Elisa Raffaella Ferrè

More than 500 people have travelled into space to date and, while we know a little about how life without gravity affects our physical health, we know almost nothing about how it affects our minds. So, my colleagues and...

Reality slippages and narcissistic stereotyping - watching Content, a TV show made for smart phones

By Emma Maguire

Lucy (Charlotte Nicado) is a pink-haired millennial having a quarter-life crisis. Her school friends have drifted away, she has a useless law degree, and a depressing rotation of casual jobs has left her broke. To top...

Apple's iPhone 11 Pro wants to take your laptop's job (and price tag)

By Andrew Maxwell

What a week it has been in the Apple core. In recent days the tech giant has released a litany of products, including new phones, watches, tablets, and more. The big-ticket items are clearly the new iPhone 11 range....

Vaping: As an imaging scientist I fear the deadly impact on people’s lungs

By Grace Parraga PhD

Vaping causes severe illness in otherwise healthy young adults and teenagers. It causes a life-threatening, life-shortening and sometimes deadly lung toxicity and injury with apparently irreversible damage that cannot be...

New copyright law will benefit South Africans with disabilities

By Denise Rosemary Nicholson

South Africas current copyright law was enacted 41 years ago. The Copyright Act No. 98 of 1978 had no provisions for people with disabilities and that hasnt changed in more than four decades. This means that every time...

Superblocks: Barcelona's car-free zones could extend lives and boost mental health

By Anupam Nanda

The worlds biggest cities have larger populations and higher economic outputs than some countries. But as they grow in size and complexity, cities are also facing thorny challenges that threaten the health and happiness of...

The next battles against tobacco must be fought in the world’s major cities

By Steven J. Hoffman Et Al

Global cities like New York and London were among the first to pioneer effective tobacco control policies like smoke-free workplaces, public cessation services and higher tobacco taxes. These life-saving policies were...

All this overinflated talk about an index-fund bubble is very passive-aggressive

By Richard Holden

If youve seen the movie The Big Short you will remember Christian Bales quirky character Michael Burry the manager of the Scion Capital hedge fund who realises the US mortgage-backed security market is a massive bubble....

Most innovation originates from customers, not companies

By Tim Schweisfurth

The mountain bike wouldnt exist if it wasnt for disgruntled customers. In the 1970s, some cyclists wanted to ride off-road but were let down by existing bikes that werent suited to rugged terrain. They adapted road bikes,...

How bankruptcy works for companies and creditors

By Lindsey Simon

More than 20,000 companies file for bankruptcy every year. Although companies follow many different paths to bankruptcy, each one encounters a process that is carefully designed to balance the rights of debtors and...

Hotels play vital role in relief efforts when disaster strikes

By Rick Lagiewski

Hotels are more than a place to stay while on vacation. They are also critical for destination disaster relief and recovery. When major hurricanes strike, relief organizations like FEMA and the Red Cross are usually...

The problem with the push for more college degrees

By Johann N. Neem

In a 2009 speech, President Barack Obama proclaimed that by 2020, the United States will once again have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world. As we near 2020, it is worth asking how close are we to...

Brexit: what will the EU's next move be?

By Magdalena Frennhoff Larsén

The latest political drama and developments surrounding Brexit in the UK have had a distinctly domestic focus. There has been little consideration of the other side in the Brexit negotiations. The UKs prime minister,...

Urban growth, heat islands, humidity, climate change: the costs multiply in tropical cities

By Taha Chaiechi Et Al

Some 60% of the planets expected urban area by 2030 is yet to be built. This forecast highlights how rapidly the worlds people are becoming urban. Cities now occupy about 2% of the worlds land area, but are home to about...

How rivalries between doctors and pharmacists turned into the 'turf war' we see today

By Philippa Martyr

Would you like to go to your local pharmacy and buy prescription medicines without seeing the doctor first? Or would you like to collect your prescription medicines at the local supermarket? These are some of the...

Keep your job options open and don't ditch science when choosing next year's school subjects

By Tracey-Ann Palmer

Thousands of Year 10 students are in the process of choosing subjects for their final years of school and half will probably choose to ditch science. For someone like me who thinks science is one of the most worthwhile...

Best on ground: why Australians think sporting bodies provide strongest leadership for public good

By Adam Karg Et Al

Australians love sport. Whether it be record crowds at the recent Boomers v USA basketball game, or the record numbers who sign up as loyal members of our professional teams, sport plays a major role in the Australian...

With a federal election looming, an appeal for politicians to stop buying us off

By Gregory C Mason

As Larry the Liquidator said in that not-so-classic film Other Peoples Money: I love money more than the things it can buy … but what I love more than money is other peoples money. With the federal...

How to conduct job interviews with candidates who have autism

By Katherine Breward

The unemployment and underemployment of capable workers with autism is a well-documented phenomenon, as a British study showed. Employers are gradually getting better at recognizing the value of including neurodiverse...

The profound perspective of geoscience can unite students

By Stephen R. Meyers

Its 1 p.m. and students gather in long lines as they wait to enter the lecture hall, a spacious wood-adorned auditorium at the top of Henry Mall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Its a charismatic octagonal space...

Does extra testosterone reduce your empathy?

By Simon Baron-Cohen Et Al

Cognitive empathy is the ability to recognise what another person is thinking or feeling, and one way it can be assessed in the lab is by using the reading the mind in the eyes test or eyes test, for short. This involves...

Introvert? You may just be bad at recognising faces

By Karen Lander

Although most of us can distinguish between and remember hundreds of different faces, some people are better at it than others. Super-recognisers can accurately identify faces even when they have only seen them briefly...

Here's why the internet will always have enough space for all our devices

By Andrew Smith

It seems that every five years, news emerges that the digital sky is falling in. Back in 2010 and 2015, rumours spread that the internet would soon run out of IP addresses. Now, the regulator of Europes internet domains...

How disinformation could sway the 2020 election

By Paul M. Barrett

In 2016, Russian operatives used Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to sow division among American voters and boost Donald Trumps presidential campaign. What the Russians used to accomplish this is called disinformation,...

Why your employer-sponsored insurance may ultimately not be good for you

By Dana Goldman

The Democratic presidential debates, which resume Sept. 12, have highlighted a deep disagreement over the future American health care system. Reflecting the anger of voters over medical costs, Sens. Bernie Sanders,...

To save honey bees we need to design them new hives

By Derek Mitchell

Honey bees are under extreme pressure. The number of honey bee colonies in the US has been declining at an average rate of almost 40% since 2010. The biggest contributor to this decline is viruses spread by a parasite,...

WeWork IPO: why investors are beginning to question the office rental firm's value

By John Colley

WeWork looked set to become the latest tech startup to launch on the stock market at an astronomic valuation. It still could. The office rental company was initially valued around US$47 billion. Now theres talk of this...

Dialogue does not mean defeat: rethinking Africa’s stance on counter-terrorism

By Akinola Olojo

When neither opponent can achieve the upper hand in a game of chess, its only a matter of time before a stalemate is declared. In a protracted battle in which no-one enjoys the upper hand, the question is not if but when...

In Brazil's rainforests, the worst fires are likely still to come

By Robert T. Walker

The number of fires this year in the Amazon is the highest since 2010, reaching more than 90,000 active fires. Farmers and ranchers routinely use fires to clear the forest. But this years number reflects a worrisome uptick...

Far fewer Mexican immigrants are coming to the US -- and those who do are more educated

By Rogelio Sáenz

Once upon a time, not long ago, Mexicans dominated the flow of migrants coming to the U.S. Mexican migration expanded over the course of much of the 20th century and into the start of the 21st century. That is no longer...

I create manipulated images and videos – but quality may not matter much

By Christye Sisson

Lots of people including Congress are worried about fake videos and imagery distorting the truth, purporting to show people saying and doing things they never said or did. Im part of a larger U.S. government project...

How to increase access to gifted programs for low-income students and children of color

By Jonathan Wai Et Al

Many of the public school gifted and talented programs that serve high-ability students dont reflect the diversity of their communities. New York City, with roughly 1.1 million students, is an extreme example. While...

Boris Johnson's dodgy delivery is only fuelling feelings of mistrust

By Stephen Coleman

Boris Johnsons speech at the police academy in Wakefield certainly raised some serious questions about how political authority is performed these days. By most standards, Johnsons speech, delivered in front of 34 uniformed...

Why 'macho culture' is not to blame for violence against women in Mexico

By Catherine Whittaker

In recent weeks, hundreds of women have taken to the streets of Mexico City protesting against murder, rape and other violence against women in Mexico. Many commentators blame macho culture for the violence they are so...