Pope Francis died on Easter Monday, just a day after greeting crowds at St Peter’s Square. From the very start of his papacy, he was determined to do things differently.

With the most powerful radio telescope in the southern hemisphere, we have observed a twinkling star and discovered an abundance of mysterious plasma structures in our cosmic neighbourhood. The plasma ...

Kathleen McPhillips, Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Newcastle Pope Francis is being remembered as a pastoral leader – and in some ways, his treatment of women ...

From the moment of his election in 2013, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the man who became Pope Francis, proved himself to be unconventional. Shedding much of the formality of previous papal elections, he ...

Countries implementing digital ID programs, such as Nigeria and Kenya, have experienced data breaches, raising fears about how well governments can protect sensitive personal information.

Bird beaks come in almost every shape and size – from the straw-like beak of a hummingbird to the slicing, knife-like beak of an eagle. We have found, however, that this incredible diversity is ...

The survey tracked students in Tasmania in 2022 and 2024. More than a quarter are often going without food because they can’t afford it.

The river’s health has been suffering, with a number of harrowing mass fish deaths events taking place in recent years.

Australia leads the world in community-based needle programs. Yet they’re not used in prisons – which are hotspots for hepatitis C infection.

A Dutton government would introduce new laws to disrupt organised crime and spend $355 million on a strike team to fight the illicit drug trade.

Sofi Oksanen draws on her family’s history of Soviet colonisation and reports of the war in Ukraine to argue Russia uses violence against women as a weapon of war.

Three weeks into the federal election campaign and both major parties have already pledged to spend billions in taxpayer dollars if elected on May 3. But with so many policies ann ...