The Conversation

By Andres Fielbaum Picture this: you’re competing in a time-trial cycling race along a route that’s not known in advance. Instead of following a marked course, you receive instructions via… …

By Merling Phaswana and Philippe Gradidge South Africa is facing an alarming increase in non-communicable diseases and related mortality. According to Statistics South Africa, deaths due to non-communicable diseases such …

By Beth Schinoff and Elana Feldman Your back pain gets worse as you sit through a long meeting. Your wrist pain flares when you’re typing furiously to meet a tight …

By Sean Semple and Rachel O’Donnell At 6am on a quiet Sunday morning 20 years ago today, Scotland became the first UK nation to ban smoking in enclosed public spaces. …

By Armin Sorooshian The waves of U.S. and Israeli bomb strikes in Tehran and Beirut, and Iran’s missile and drone attacks on neighboring countries in response, are damaging more than …

By Jonathan Graffam-O’Meara Every Melburnian knows the West Gate Bridge, crossing the Yarra River north of its exit to Port Phillip Bay. It looms, it hums, it holds memory, it …

By Jennifer Loewen, Barbara Fornssler, Colleen Dell, and Maryellen Gibson Opioid-class drugs are commonly prescribed as powerful pain medications in both humans and animals, though they can also be accessed …

By Wenge Xu Self-driving cars are very much a reality and no longer a vision from science fiction. In the UK, automated vehicles (AVs) such as self-driving shuttles are already …

By Vikram Niranjan When e-cigarettes first appeared around 2010, they were hailed as a breakthrough: nicotine delivery without the toxic tar and combustion byproducts of traditional cigarettes. Public health bodies …