Big pharma is big carbon, but multi-billion-dollar drug companies have a mixed record on efforts towards net-zero, say University of Melbourne experts ...

In 1834, the Henty brothers established the first permanent European settlement in Victoria at Portland on unceded Gunditjmara Country. This marked the beginning of violent colonisation in the state, ...

Recently, it emerged that a team of researchers at the University of Zurich had conducted a study to manipulate Reddit users without their consent. The researchers’ aim was to see if a large language ...

The gig economy is rapidly reshaping urban life. The way we shop, eat and travel has been transformed by apps and the workforce behind them. Yet digital labour platforms do not provide their employees ...

In its standard definition, the word ‘rare’ describes something that doesn’t happen very often. So families who receive a diagnosis of a ‘rare genetic disease’ understandably feel isolated and that ...

In early May, the US President Donald Trump announced a forthcoming 100 per cent tariff on “films produced in foreign lands”. It is unclear whether ‘films’ means any screen content or just content ...

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism are in the news as never before. Media attention is at an all-time high, demand for diagnostic assessments ...

Chemical biologist Professor Megan Maher and her zoologist brother Dr Tyrone Lavery hope to one day combine their fields of study and solve new research puzzles together Growing up on Queensland’s ...

My brother, a 60-year-old Aboriginal man, recently had a heart attack in a public park on a sunny Sunday whilst celebrating the birthday of his three-year-old granddaughter. He went into cardiac ...

Labor’s victory already made the 2025 election one of historic outcomes: the biggest Labor majority since 1943, and the first time an Opposition leader has lost their seat at a federal election. But ...

Major cities worldwide – including within Australia – are running out of cemetery space. Australia has over 6,300 cemeteries, yet a fraction of these remain operational. Cremation is the main ...

In 1963, the French Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe were experiencing economic decline and people were demanding independence from France. Mainland France, meanwhile, was in desperate ...