Spinal cord damage breaks the connection between the brain and the body, but University of Melbourne researchers are ...

A University of Melbourne expert explains how the undead's latest resurrection in the new 28 Years Later film reflects our ...

The failure of countries like Australia, France and Britain to condemn the illegality of the Trump administration’s assault on Venezuela is also an assault on international law, says a University of ...

The Alice Springs crime wave gained widespread coverage in the past week. This crime wave and particularly the data on domestic violence assaults draws attention to a contentious issue that goes ...

Floating in a small jar of alcohol sits one of Australia’s rarest specimens. The jar, labelled collection number C5757, holds a juvenile Tasmanian tiger or thylacine, one of the best-preserved extinct ...

It doesn’t take long, if you spend any time on social media, to come across a meme, reel or TikTok taking a side in the US actor Johnny Depp’s defamation case against his ex-wife, Amber Heard. Social ...

Unlike New Zealanders, whose education is rich in Maori language, history and customs, most Australians have only a sketchy understanding of the traditions of their country’s first peoples.

Among the hand-written documents, books, and ancient artefacts in the Vatican Library is a 13th century manuscript on falconry written in Latin by or for the Holy Roman Emperor - King Frederick II of ...

You don’t necessarily need a working knowledge of evolutionary theory to know that in the animal kingdom, larger beasts tend to live longer than smaller ones. An elephant lives longer than a mouse; a ...

Giraffe spots have interested researchers and natural historians for hundreds of years, and indeed humankind for much longer. In fact, they are a key feature in early rock carvings, including ...

The history of the quantum revolution is replete with famous names like Einstein, Bohr, Pauli, Heisenberg, Schrodinger, and others who have forever changed the way we think about the world. The smug ...

Australia’s catastrophic bushfires earlier this year may seem like a long time ago now as focus has shifted to the COVID-19 pandemic, but their impact continues. The fires, which devastated the ...