Large-scale research shows abdominal fat strongly predicts future migraines in young adults. Waist size matters more than weight alone, highlighting how inflammation, lifestyle choices, and long-term health risks intersect with performance and resilience.

Hybrid attacks across Europe eased in 2025, but this may be a pause—not a retreat. Shifts in negotiation prospects, better detection, and looming elections point to renewed pressure and influence efforts in 2026.

Oil scarcity fears have shifted to demand uncertainty. Weak climate follow-through risks an abrupt supply peak, with the potential to leave governments exposed to volatile energy shocks, rising prices, and disruptive economic adjustment.

Hard, twice-baked biscotti once sustained fleets for months at sea—its long shelf life, simple ingredients, and scale of production show how logistics, food preservation, and coordination underpinned exploration, trade, and naval power.

An autonomous landing system safely handled a real emergency after cabin pressurisation failed—showing how trusted automation can reduce risk, manage complexity, and preserve human decision space when seconds matter.

Australia faces a fractured global system where familiar guarantees are fading—navigating rising coercion, economic leverage and competing power centres now requires sharper choices, stronger partnerships and a clearer understanding of how prosperity and sovereignty are sustained.

Ukraine shows that timely surveillance enables decisive strikes. Persistent sensing, fast data fusion, and resilient networks decide when targets are most vulnerable—and failure to protect these systems risks losing the initiative in any high-end conflict.

The polar regions are becoming strategic spaces. Australia is responding by building expertise, testing rules, and strengthening awareness—so national interests, science, and stability are protected as competition grows at both ends of the Earth.

Quantum navigation offers precise positioning without satellites. It works underwater and underground. Trials show promise, but ruggedisation remains key—success would reduce disruption risks, protect critical systems, and strengthen resilience where signals fail or are denied.

Continuous deterrence relies on people most of all. Long, silent patrols impose heavy human costs. Commitment, trust, and resilience sustain credibility—yet, the author argues, ageing systems and delayed investment push teams and families far beyond limits once judged unacceptable.