Tag: lifeandnews
Bugs as treatment: coming to a clinic near you…
By Paul Bertrand, RMIT University and Anna Walduck, RMIT University
When you’re sick, you want the most effective treatment to help get you back on...
From galactic pile-ups, stars are born: a crash course in clusters
By Nick Seymour, Curtin University
Clusters of galaxies have back-stories worthy of a Hollywood blockbuster: their existences are marked by violence, death and birth, arising...
We don’t know if God exists, but we should keep asking
By Graham Oppy, Monash University
Disputes about the existence of God — like most disputes about religion, politics, and sex — almost always generate heat...
King hits: young men, masculinity and violence
By Raewyn Connell, University of Sydney
The recent outcry in Sydney about “alcohol-fuelled violence” has many people asking whether young men are out of control,...
Head of Flawed Effort to ID Missing Soldiers Loses Job
by Megan McCloskey ProPublica, Oct. 3, 2014, 10:32 a.m.
The longtime scientific director of the problem-ridden Pentagon agency charged with identifying the remains of service...
Does the age of online education herald the death of academics?
By Chris Hackley, Royal Holloway
In the mid-1980s as a further education lecturer I was mocked by some more traditional colleagues for using “lantern slides”,...
Life boils down to five ‘rules’ … or so says the...
By James Smith
It may sound overly simple, but just five processes can define us as animals: eating, metabolism, reproduction, dispersal and death.
They might not...
Lawyers look at the Elgin Marbles, but stars keep them firmly...
By Marett Leiboff, University of Wollongong
Legal star power is being deployed in the form of the very well-known London barristers, Geoffrey Robertson QC and...
EXPLORING NATURE
Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...
Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma
