Turkey is filling the power vacuum left by Assad, but peaceful coexistence is vital for the Middle East’s future
Geopolitics abhors a power vacuum. One country’s loss is another’s gain, and the space left by Iran is being occupied, for ...
Blinking radio pulses from space hint at a cosmic object that ‘shouldn’t exist’
Most pulsars, the faster-spinning cousins of ASKAP J1839-0756, are like one-sided flashlights. The axis they spin around is ...
Princess of Wales ‘in remission’ from cancer – but what does that mean?
Catherine, Princess of Wales, has announced that she is now in remission from cancer, following a year of health challenges ...
Peacekeeping armies: what are they, why do African states build them and what impact do they have?
Finally, states that develop peacekeeping armies afford peace operations a high level of prominence in their national ...
Staring blankly at your screen? You probably have post holiday blues. The good news is you can get through it
Being forced back into the routine of work after a summer break can be unsettling. But there are strategies to getting over ...
How we diagnose and define obesity is set to change – here’s why, and what it means for treatment
A larger body doesn’t necessarily mean you have ‘clinical obesity’, according to a proposed new definition of the disease.
Study shows hot leaves can’t catch carbon from the air. It’s bad news for rainforests – and Earth
An experiment in the Daintree rainforest found the rate of photosynthesis in leaves warmed by 4°C dropped by an average of 35 ...
Nothing new under the sun: Australia’s long history of missed chances to build sustainable homes
When Australia faced a housing crisis 80 years ago, the government was urged to promote the building of more ...
Trump’s plan for a strategic bitcoin reserve could trigger a crypto ‘arms race’ and reshape the global economic order
There are already media reports that other nations, including Japan, Russia and China, are accumulating bitcoin ahead of a ...