UN Human Rights Council keeps up its bad form on LGBT rights
By Rosa Freedman, University of Birmingham and Camilla R Barker, University of Oxford
The United Nations Human Rights Council is tasked with the universal protection...
Aboriginal people – how to misunderstand their science
By Ray Norris, CSIRO
Just one generation ago Australian schoolkids were taught that Aboriginal people couldn’t count beyond five, wandered the desert scavenging for food,...
Where to now? Future directions for HIV treatment
By David Cooper
The future of HIV treatment bears no resemblance to its past.
Through the lonely days of the early single-drug treatment AZT to the...
Humans drained the Aral Sea once before – but there are no free refills...
By Anson Mackay, University College London
The Aral Sea has reached a new low, literally and figuratively; new satellite images from NASA show that, for...
It takes a global village: how we got ahead in HIV control
By William Bowtell
When AIDS first emerged in the early 1980s, HIV infection was a death sentence. But a global effort has ensured this is...
See one of the year’s best meteor showers, thanks to Halley’s comet
By Jonti Horner, University of Southern Queensland and Tanya Hill, Museum Victoria
As Earth orbits the sun, it continually ploughs through dust and debris left...
Our obsession with abstraction, then and now at London’s Frieze
By Kate Symondson, King's College London
One of the biggest international art fairs is back. And London’s Frieze isn’t just about selling contemporary art, it’s...
Australian schools must promote LGBT-inclusive education
By Jen Scott Curwood, University of Sydney and Jacqueline Ullman, University of Western Sydney
Earlier this month, it was revealed that Kevin Donnelly, one of...
