Asteroid 2024 YR4 has around a 1-in-77 chance of hitting Earth in 2032 – but there’s no need to panic.

The US president says he wants Greenland for security reasons. But Greenland is not terra nullius ripe for American colonisation.

Worldwide, large-scale monocrop agriculture is the most significant driver of deforestation. Bulldozers flatten natural landscapes, wiping out wildlife and destroying the forest resources that support ...

The Egyptian government should accept and take urgent action to carry out recommendations made during a United Nations review of its human rights record on January 28, 2025, Human Rights Watch said ...

Sarah Bekessy, Professor in Sustainability and Urban Planning, Leader, Interdisciplinary Conservation Science Research Group (ICON Science), RMIT University Researchers mined the knowledge of ...

For as long as we’ve had democracies, majority rule has left some in the minority worse off. We need to be talking about what’s fair – not just what’s equal.

Ria Hopkins, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW Sydney Long-anticipated changes to how Australians buy paracetamol are on their way in a bid to reduce harms.

Donald Trump plans to augment the mainstream White House press corps with social media influencers and content creators. There is an insidious side to this strategy.

A Korean chatbot named Iruda was manipulated by users to spew hate speech, leading to a large fine for her makers — and providing a warning for lawmakers.

From their origins in the clubs and jams of the 1970s and 1980s, house and hip-hop have become global cultural forces.

By the 2080s, climate change will mean most of Britain’s peatlands could be too dry to form new peat. That’s the stark warning from a new academic study my colleagues and I ju ...

New research from broadcaster Channel 4 reveals a troubling trend towards support for authoritarianism among young people in the UK. The report “Gen Z: Trends, Truth and Trust” found that 52% of the 2 ...