Iris van Santen is a project manager at the Rijksmuseum, the national museum of the Netherlands in Amsterdam. The museum is dedicated to Dutch art and history. It’s best known for its collection of ...

Back in 2004, there was a broadly cooperative pattern of economic relations between China and the US. It was also a time when Indonesia’s so-called ‘big bang decentralisation’ – which gave away ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer just a futuristic fantasy – it’s here, and it’s thinking for us. From generating essays and diagnosing diseases to analysing legal documents and coding ...

How hot was it yesterday? Did those storms keep you awake? What’s happening with the fires? Have you seen how much rain is falling up North? We all love to talk about the weather, and right now it is ...

Mis- and disinformation have once again been named the top global risk of the immediate term in the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Risks Report 2025. This comes just days after Meta ...

We’ve just lived through the world’s hottest year on record, as well as the hottest decade on record. And yet, we keep building our cities out of materials that get incredibly hot during heatwaves – ...

Education does not just impart information; it shapes who we are and who we might be. Since 2010, the Australian Curriculum has included an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures ...

In 1490, Leonardo da Vinci wrote, “If you cause your ship to stop and place the head of a long tube in the water and place the outer extremity to your ear, you will hear ships at a great distance from ...

Fire is an important part of plant life in Australia, influencing where plants grow and how abundant a species will be. As a result of recurring bushfires and cultural fire over millennia, many plants ...

Australia’s young adults are putting their traditional steps towards adulthood on hold – spending more time living in the parental home. In fact, just over half of young men (54 per cent) and 47 per ...

Have you heard of ‘Flat-Earth education’? It’s a phrase I am using as a provocation to highlight a problem – the unquestioning acceptance of the everyday structures and practices of education, ...