Reacting to news that the Slovak parliament voted today to pass amendments to the constitution that will lead to the recognition of only two genders (male and female), restrict comprehensive sexuality ...

Iranian authorities have executed over 1,000 people thus far in 2025, the highest number of yearly executions in Iran that the organization has recorded in at least 15 years, said Amnesty ...

US attempts to intervene in long-running spat between Ethiopia and Egypt has yielded little progress – and may have put US credibility on the line.

Mushrooms may not be the first food that comes to mind when we imagine the diets of wild primates – or our early human ancestors. We tend to think of fruits and green leaves as the preferred foods for ...

Indonesia and the US differ greatly in policing systems, yet they share one troubling trait: revealing arbitrary violence by those entrusted to protect the people.

"We need all the spaces, all the communities, we need a whole society to heal and to promote racial tolerance, peace, solidarity and harmony." ...

My journey into this role was shaped by my experience growing up in Argentina during the dictatorship and being an activist during my law school years, advocating for […] The post Protecting the right ...

The Hack’s real-life counterpart Nick Davies has reissued his book on the phone-hacking scandal. Its new afterword casts more light on the Murdoch company’s behaviour.

Amanda M Franklin, DECRA Fellow, Department of Ecological, Plant and Animal Sciences, La Trobe University Kate Umbers, Associate Professor in Zoology, Western Sydney University William Allen, ...

A study of the 2013 shutdown that lasted 16 days revealed long-term negative effects on federal workers and led to weakened government performance.

Bunkers, bomb shelters, mines and mountains all play critical roles protecting against our latest existential threat: the terrifying prospect of data loss.

In the classic film 2001: A Space Odyssey, astronaut Dave Bowman asks the ship’s artificial intelligence, HAL 9000, to open the pod bay doors to let him back into the spaceship. HAL refuses: “I’m ...