‘The ghost has taken the spirit of the Moon’: how Torres Strait Islanders predict eclipses
Mar 25, 2024 05:05 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Its eclipse season. The Sun, Earth and Moon are aligned so its possible for the Earth and Moon to cast each other into shadow. A faint lunar eclipse will occur on March 25, visible at dusk from Australia and eastern...
How Moscow terror attack fits ISIS-K strategy to widen agenda, take fight to its perceived enemies
Mar 25, 2024 05:04 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Russia is reeling from the worst terror strike on its soil in a generation following an attack on March 22, 2024, that killed at least 137 concertgoers in Moscow. The attack has been claimed by the Islamic State group....
How ‘social financing’ could help fund higher education for under-represented students
Mar 20, 2024 12:15 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
Canadas new international student cap will likely have a significant impact on universities, which are already facing financial pressures and other challenges related to artificial intelligence and climate change all...
Do you have 7,513 unread emails in your inbox? Research suggests that’s unwise
Mar 19, 2024 11:29 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
How do you manage your emails? Are you an inbox zero kind of person, or do you just leave thousands of them unread? Our new study, published today in the journal Information Research, suggests that leaving all your...
What is the ‘great replacement theory’? A scholar of race relations explains
Mar 18, 2024 09:13 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
The great replacement theory, whose origins date back to the late 19th century, argues that Jews and some Western elites are conspiring to replace white Americans and Europeans with people of non-European descent,...
Jury convicts father who bought the gun used in son’s Michigan mass shooting
Mar 18, 2024 09:06 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
In a case of what prosecutors described as gross negligence, a Michigan jury convicted James Crumbley on charges of involuntary manslaughter for his role in his sons deadly rampage at Oxford High School nearly three years...
Fuel poverty in England is probably 2.5 times higher than government statistics show
Mar 18, 2024 09:04 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
The cap set on how much UK energy suppliers can charge for domestic gas and electricity is set to fall by 15% from April 1 2024. Despite this, prices remain shockingly high. The average household energy bill in 2023 was...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects