The US energy market has its troubles, though it may not be a ‘national emergency’
The US produces more oil today than any other country, and there is no clear emergency on the scale of the energy crises of ...
Are our thoughts ‘real’? Here’s what philosophy says
René Descartes said the only thing we can be certain about is that we think. But what is the nature of thoughts? Philosophers have pondered this for centuries.
‘A miracle of Western tenacity’: how 10 million refugees found homes after World War II
In her latest book, historian Sheila Fitzpatrick tells the story of millions of displaced people and international efforts to ...
50 new urgent care clinics are on the cards. But are the existing ones working? Here’s what we know so far
Once these 50 new clinics open in the 2025–26 financial year, the government says four in five Australians will live within a ...
Hot frogs and sizzling salamanders: climate change is pushing amphibians to their limits
New research shows frogs and other amphibians are already on the brink of overheating in a warming world. Here’s how many ...
Consumer resistance is rising in the age of Trump. History shows how boycotts can be effective
The fragile global economy could fuel the boycotts of companies that have aligned themselves with the policies of Donald ...
What’s behind Erdoğan’s calculated shift on Kurds and its potential consequences
Erdoğan’s outreach to Kurdish forces may signal peace — or a bid to secure support for extending his presidency by fracturing ...
The shortcut to less warming? It runs through a farm field
“The biggest challenge to limiting climate change to 2°C, the upper target of the 2015 Paris agreement, is this: methane ...
I experienced the fall of Goma. I had to leave my Congolese colleagues in a critical situation
A professor of global health was in Kivu when the fighting began to rage. She recounts what she and her colleagues ...
Why Trump’s plan to cut national debt by selling ‘gold card’ visas for US$5 million each won’t work
The idea that wealthy foreigners can address a nation’s faltering economy is not new. Trump’s gold visas will themselves ...
Children’s perception of normal body shape is affected by who they see around them – new research
If we are shown a lot of heavy bodies, the bodies we rate as attractive get heavier and the bodies we rate as “normal” get ...
Two great war leaders united by American isolationism: Charles de Gaulle and Volodymyr Zelensky
Roosevelt agreed when his ambassador to Vichy, Admiral William D. Leahy, described de Gaulle as “an apprentice dictator”. There is a chilling echo in Trump’s description of Volodymyr Zelensky as a ...