Many men were concerned about climaxing too quickly or lacking interest in sex.Krista MangulsoneOne in two Australian men aged 18 to 55 have experienced sexual difficulty in the past 12 months, accord...
Jennifer Power, Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
No sooner had the US midterm elections for Congress concluded than jockeying began for the presidential elections in 2020. Barring either impeachment, which seems unlikely, or a health crisis, Donald ...
Dennis Altman, Professorial Fellow in Human Security, La Trobe University
A worshipper lights candles at a makeshift memorial at the Al Noor mosque in Christchurch.AAP/Mick Tsikas, CC BY-SAToday, many Muslims in New Zealand will be returning for Friday prayers. Some might f...
Fatima Junaid, Lecturer, Massey University
Children and young people told us they were often overwhelmed by the risks that surrounded them.from shutterstock.comIn recent months, we have been confronted by events that make the world seem unsafe...
Tim Moore, Associate Professor and Deputy Director, Australian Centre for Child Protection, University of South Australia
Women played a role as both readers and authors in the history of science writing.Shutterstock/Africa StudioThree centuries ago, when modern science was in its infancy, the gender disparity in educati...
Robyn Arianrhod, Adjunct Associate , School of Mathematical Sciences, Monash University
Fire ant stings can be deadly to people who have an allergic reaction to their venom.Forest and Kim Starr/Flickr, CC BY-SATropical fire ants (Solenopsis geminata), originally from central and South Am...
Pauline Lenancker, PhD student in biology and ecology, James Cook University
Australia’s Fairwork Commission has so far this year examined more than a dozen cases of wage theft. Those cases involve hundred of workers and millions of dollars in underpayments.And it’...
Joo-Cheong Tham, Professor, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne
The unemployment rate is 4.9%, but the underemployment rate is 8.1%ShutterstockThis is the third in a three-part mini-symposium on Wages, Unemployment and Underemployment presented by The Conversation...
Barbara Pocock, Emeritus Professor University of South Australia, University of South Australia
In the days before the mass shootings in Christchurch I was visiting Parkland, Florida, where 17 people were killed in a school shooting on Valentine’s Day 2018. I was recording a story about ho...
Amanda Tattersall, Postdoc in urban geography and Research Lead at Sydney Policy Lab. Host of ChangeMakers Podcast., University of Sydney
These images of Cherine Fahd's grandfather's funeral were tucked away in a brown paper envelope for decades. As a society, we too often keep grief hidden from view. Author providedBefore her death in...
Cherine Fahd, Director Photography, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney
Supporters of the campaign to stop commercial development at Ihumaatao.Qiane Matata-Sipu , CC BY-SAAn escalating crisis at Ihumaatao, near Auckland’s airport, is challenging the commercial devel...
Tim McCreanor, Professor Race Relations, Health and Wellbeing, Massey University
With the election likely to be called in about a fortnight – the weekend after the April 2 budget - behind the scenes Labor is “measuring the curtains” of government.Any sign of hubr...
Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced a ban on certain military-style weapons.AAP/David AlexanderAs she foreshadowed in the aftermath of the Christchurch massacre last Friday, New Ze...
Rick Sarre, Professor of Law and Criminal Justice, University of South Australia
Feral horses have severely damaged the landscape in Kosciuszko National Park.Travelstine, CC BY-SAThe future management of New South Wales’s national parks is one of the issues on the line in Sa...
Don Driscoll, Professor in Terrestrial Ecology, Deakin University
Home care providers' profits are growing but many older Australians are missing out on quality care.The Conversation / ShutterstockThis week, the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety hea...
Fron Jackson-Webb, Deputy Editor/Senior Health + Medicine Editor
The unemployment rate is 4.9%, but the underemployment rate is 8.1%ShutterstockThis is the third in a three-part mini-symposium on Wages, Unemployment and Underemployment presented by The Conversation...
The Conversation
Australia’s Fairwork Commission has so far this year examined more than a dozen cases of wage theft. Those cases involve hundred of workers and millions of dollars in underpayments.And it’...
The Conversation
A 12-week-old baby female macaque, named Grady, was born from frozen testicular tissue. Oregon Health and Science University, CC BY-SACancer in children was often a death sentence in decades past, but...
Kyle Orwig, Professor of OB/GYN and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
The odds of more legal betting are good. AP Photo/John LocherMarch means springtime, but also breathless headlines of Cinderellas, busted brackets and buzzer beaters. This year, it’ll also inclu...
John Affleck, Knight Chair in Sports Journalism and Society, Pennsylvania State University
Will food laws change as more GM foods are created?Zerbor/Shutterstock.comThe world of food and drug regulation was rocked earlier this month by the news of a change in leadership at the Food and Drug...
Ana Santos Rutschman, Assistant Professor of Law, Saint Louis University
Teacher license exams often fail to predict which teachers will be the best, research shows.michaeljung from shutterstock.comStudents of color seldom see teachers who look like them. This is because m...
Emery Petchauer, Associate Professor, Michigan State University
While fertility levels have declined rapidly in most parts of the world, many countries in the sub-Saharan African region of the Sahel have seen their reproductive rates go down very slowly, and only ...
John F. May, Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University School of Nursing and Health Studies, Georgetown University
Margareta, head of the women's community at Lippoldsberg (in modern-day Germany) clasps hands with an Augustinian monk as he hands her a book.Lippoldsberg Evangeliary. Kassel, Landesbibliothek, MS the...
Alison I. Beach, Associate Professor of History, The Ohio State University
Facebook Live can be fun – or really scary.I'm friday/Shutterstock.comWhen word broke that the massacre in New Zealand was livestreamed on Facebook, I immediately thought of Robert Godwin Sr. In…
Tarana Burke created #MeToo in 2006 but it didn't emerge as a mass social movement until 2017.AP Photo/Damian DovarganesMany of history’s revolutions and social movements have emerged with littl…
Dogs don't need pot or CBD or other marijuana derivatives. Harshad Rathod/Shutterstock.comMy family and I were on vacation in Florida recently and took advantage of a free afternoon to do some gift sh…
When Judge Peter Kidd sentenced Cardinal George Pell last week, it was broadcast live on radio and television. It was a stark contrast to the preceding trial, which was subject to a suppression order …
The endangered Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby is one of Victoria's threatened species.TARONGA ZOO/AAPVictoria is struggling with biodiversity conservation, according to a State of the Environment report ta…
There's no trading strategy that will deliver better returns than chance.ShutterstockIn 2013 I wrote a piece on The Conversation arguing that foreign exchange trading should be much more tightly regul…
Janson George/ShutterstockYour lipstick and foundation will be less likely to come at the expense of animal welfare, thanks to Commonwealth legislation that passed in recent weeks.The legislation, whi…
Light bounces from an image to your eye, and is interpreted by your brain. oldskool photography / Unsplash, CC BYAs an experimental video-maker working at scales smaller than molecules, I surround mys…
The Muslim diaspora means that people live in many parts of the world.from www.shutterstock.com, CC BY-SANew Zealand is a religiously and ethnically diverse country with an almost negligible global te…
Students are far more understanding of their religious peers if they attend classes about religious diversity.from shutterstock.comAround 80% of secondary school students who had classes about diverse…
The earlier you start planning, the better.ShutterstockMost Australians prefer to die at home but few adequately plan for it. Consequently, just one in seven dies at home. Some say they will make pla…
The first step in coming to terms with the attack in Christchurch is to understand that it has been produced by right wing extremism, both in Australia and internationally.The problem does not lie wit…
The kebab van enlivens and humanises otherwise unattractive and abandoned parts of the city.James Connor, Author providedThe ubiquitous kebab van has become part of the urban character of Melbourne ov…
Children will skirt around tech barriers if they feel restricted. from www.shutterstock.comHow well are we preparing the typical primary school kid for life when they graduate in 2032?Current attitude…
Australia, like its competitors Qatar, Canada and the United States, aspires to become the world’s largest exporter of gas, arguing this helps importing nations reduce their greenhouse emissions…
Cashless payment systems are not socially neutral. They discriminate against the 'unbanked'.ShutterstockAfter recreational cannabis use became legal in Canada last October, research shows the number o…
Weeks ahead of the ANZAC commemoration at Gallipoli, serious tensions erupted between Australia and Turkey, after threatening comments by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the wake of the…
Opponents of Australia’s strong immigration program will be disappointed.In announcing a cut in Australia’s migration ceiling from 190,000 to 160,000 per year, federal population minister …
The UK will leave the EU on 29 March unless the UK government requests an extension to Article 50.ShutterstockThere is a song by the Melbourne band Little Heroes, called One Perfect Day, from back in …
Gurindji singers Thomas Monkey Yikapayi, Ronnie Wavehill Wirrpa and Topsy Dodd Ngarnjal sing ‘Wanji-wanji’.Brenda L Croft, CC BY-SAIn a time before radio or even gramophones, songs were sh…
Doulas support women before, during and after childbirth. A new review explores the important role they play.From shutterstock.comWomen have traditionally been supported by a companion during childbir…
There's no trading strategy that will deliver better returns than chance.ShutterstockIn 2013 I wrote a piece on The Conversation arguing that foreign exchange trading should be much more tightly regul…
In an uncertain economy that sees a growing number of people with a side career, a work-from-home gig or starting their own business, lots of self-starters wonder how they can boost their business. …
Cashless payment systems are not socially neutral. They discriminate against the 'unbanked'.ShutterstockAfter recreational cannabis use became legal in Canada last October, research shows the number o…
Teens aren't necessarily less social, but the contours of their social lives have changed.pxhereAsk a teen today how she communicates with her friends, and she’ll probably hold up her smartphone…
Guards take apart the death penalty chamber at San Quentin State Prison on Wednesday, March 13, 2019California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation via APBoth celebration – and ire &ndas…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.AP/Sebastian ScheinerAfter a decade in office, Benjamin Netanyahu’s long tenure as Israel’s prime minister may soon be ending. Whether his Likud P…
Library subjects and call numbers can be the subject of controversy.jakkaje808/shutterstock.comFor many years, the Library of Congress categorized many of its books under a controversial subject headi…
More than 14 million kids attend summer camp each year.Rawpixel from www.shutterstock.comIn popular culture, summer camp is often portrayed as a place where pranks are played, romances unfold and unde…
Women who are sexually assaulted by their partners or other men sometimes turn to opioids to numb themselves.Tinnakomjorruang/Shutterstock.comOne night, a woman I’ll call Tonya got a compliment…
What's the best way to put the brakes on current research?Okrasyuk/Shutterstock.comShould researchers put the brakes on genetically engineering babies? Leading scientists and ethicists recently called…
Opponents of Australia’s strong immigration program will be disappointed.In announcing a cut in Australia’s migration ceiling from 190,000 to 160,000 per year, federal population minister …
The world was saddened and distressed to learn of the shocking Christchurch mosque attacks on Friday, which claimed the lives of 50 people and injured nearly as many. Since then we’ve heard hear…
The difference in the Christchurch attacks is that propaganda supplied by the perpetrator was available to the professional media, even as the story was breaking.Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-N…
Cities have a choice of autonomous vehicle futures: cars or mass transit vehicles. Which one we adopt is likely to determine how people-friendly our cities are.SueBeDoo888/ShutterstockA unique opport…
Significant changes in your child's behaviour could signal they are being sexually abused.from shutterstock.comRecent events, including the conviction and sentencing of George Pell for sexually abusin…
Do you think you could make an echo at Echo Point in Katoomba?Flickr/Amanda Slater, CC BYCurious Kids is a series for children. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to …
Greg Combet wants to use his super power to free business from being hostage to short-term share-price and profit measures.ShutterstockRight now Greg Combet is arguably the most powerful man in Austra…
The government has announced a reduced annual cap on migration of 160,000 for each of the next four years, as well as measures to stream a greater proportion of migrants to regional areas and boost th…
Livestream on Facebook isn't just a tool for sharing violence – it has many popular social and political uses. glen carrie / unsplash, CC BYAs families in Christchurch bury their loved ones foll…
Future technologies will exploit today's advances in our understanding of the quantum world.Shutterstock/PopTika When you deal with things at the quantum scale, where things are very small, the world …
There are better ways for politicians to address defamation concerns than through the courts.AAP/Ellen SmithWhen The Project host Waleed Aly began his editorial in the wake of the Christchurch massacr…
Youth dance troupe Stompin performed their thought-provoking work Nowhere as part of this year's Ten Days on the Island.Jacob Collings, Lusy ProductionsThis year marks the tenth biennial Tasmanian Art…
The world is reeling in the aftermath of the horrific shootings in Christchurch. The attack has also raised a number of side issues, including the ethics of broadcasting the live stream of the attack…
Many older Australians prefer to stay at home than enter residential aged care – but the process of securing home care is riddled with complexities.From shutterstock.comThe Royal Commission into…
This has been an exciting, sad and fascinating year for Health and Medicine. The Conversation has followed, as well as led, some of the coverage. Take our 2017 quiz to see how much you can remember.
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