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 ...

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 ...

Have you heard of ‘Flat-Earth education’? It’s a phrase I am using as a provocation to highlight a problem – the unquestioning acceptance of the everyday structures and practices of education, ...

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.

The Victorian government’s recent announcement that it’s aiming to build 800,000 new houses in a decade might seem very ambitious, but it aims to address a very serious problem. Housing supply in ...

Deep in a northeast Kimberley rock shelter on Balanggarra Country is a two metre-long rock painting of a kangaroo. This kangaroo is now Australia’s oldest known, intact Aboriginal rock painting. The ...

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 ...

The Australian Black Summer wildfires of 2019-20 were cataclysmic in extent and severity but they were also a landmark in our country’s environmental history. A new book, with contributions from more ...

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 ...