
What’s going on with TikTok in the US, and what will this mean for Australia?
According to the latest reports, TikTok has restored services in the United States after going dark on Saturday evening US time. The company turned off its services ahead of a nationwide ban that was set to take effect on...

The US has exposed the World Anti-Doping Agency’s precarious funding model
Warren Buffet once famously said: you only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out. In this context, the US governments decision this month to withhold its annual funding to the World Anti-Doping Agency...

Around the world, humans routinely kill carnivores to protect livestock and game, increase human safety and conserve native wildlife. Unfortunately, killing carnivores often creates new problems including population booms...

Antibacterials are everywhere: for the sake of our microbiome, we need to control their use
In a world increasingly obsessed with cleanliness, antimicrobial chemicals have become a staple in everyday life. From soaps and cosmetics to cleaning sprays and period products, they promise to protect us by killing 99.9%...

David Lynch’s musical creations were as visionary as his filmmaking
The dark, surrealistic artistic vision of David Lynch, whose death was announced on January 16, was shown through films like Eraserhead (1977), Mulholland Drive (2001) and Blue Velvet (1986), and his TV show Twin Peaks...
How childhood trauma impacts our brains, bodies – and even our genes
Tinnakorn Jorruang/Shutterstock In 1966, Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu introduced extreme policies to increase the countrys birth rate. This led to the widespread abandonment of children, who ended up in orphanages...
Don’t rely on social media users for fact-checking. Many don’t care much about the common good
Shutterstock In the wake of Donald Trumps election victory, Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg fired the fact-checking team for his companys social media platforms. At the same time, he reversed Facebooks turn away from...