Can a child legally take puberty blockers? What if their parents disagree?
Recent political attention might imply gender-affirming care is risky, controversial, perhaps even new. But Australian law ...
Trump’s 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico amp up the risk of a broader trade war
Trump’s new tariff war with Canada and Mexico shows his willingness to weaponise trade in pursuit of unrelated political goals. Here’s why it matters globally.
Astronomers have spied an asteroid that may be heading for Earth. Here’s what we know so far
On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...
Trump says he wants to take Greenland. International law says otherwise
The US president says he wants Greenland for security reasons. But Greenland is not terra nullius ripe for American ...
Teens on social media: Red, blue and purple states are all passing laws to restrict and protect adolescents
In 1998, long before the age of Instagram or TikTok, the federal government set a minimal baseline for internet safety for ...
South African troops are dying in the DRC: why they’re there and what’s going wrong
The Southern African Development Community intervention force in the mission in the DRC is outgunned and outmanned.
DeepSeek claims to have cured AI’s environmental headache. The Jevons paradox suggests it might make things worse
In the 1860s, economist William Stanley Jevons said more efficient coal furnaces simply meant more coal was burned.
How should Keir Starmer handle Donald Trump – and how’s it going so far?
Relations between presidents and prime ministers aren’t always easy, even without Elon Musk weighing in with his views.
Bogus scientific papers are enriching fraudsters and slowing lifesaving medical research
The world’s library of scientific papers is becoming contaminated as fraudsters use ‘paper mills’ to game scholarly ...
What happened in the German parliament and why is the far right hailing it as a ‘historic’ moment?
In a dramatic swing to the right, Friedrich Merz’s CDU is proposing Germany breaches EU law by closing its borders to ...
How Trump’s suggestion to ‘clean out’ Gaza sent shockwaves through the Middle East
Hundreds of thousands of civilians returned to the northern Gaza Strip this week after checkpoints were reopened in line with ...
Property and sovereignty in space − as countries and companies take to the stars, they could run into disputes
Space isn’t lawless, but the agreements governing it don’t cover everything nations will have to grapple with as they develop ...