University of Melbourne research shows the endangered long-footed potoroo is experiencing changes to its diet in a warming ...

Spinal cord damage breaks the connection between the brain and the body, but University of Melbourne researchers are exploring new carbon fibre electrodes to bridge this gap and offer an all-new treat ...

Monotremes are among the world’s strangest animals, mixing mammalian and reptilian characteristics in the one creature. When British scientists in the 18th Century first saw a platypus they dismissed ...

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.

Australia’s young adults are putting their traditional steps towards adulthood on hold – spending more time living in the parental home. In fact, just over half of young men (54 per cent) and 47 per ...

For many people, having their tonsils removed is a childhood rite of passage. The promise of ice cream and hours of television do make the recovery a much more bearable prospect, even a source of ...

If you look around any waiting room or queue of people, almost all will be on a mobile phone. But alleviating boredom is just one way digital devices are being increasingly used to manage emotions ...

From movies to TV and parental anecdotes, teenagers are often characterised as risk-taking and impulsive with poor decision-making skills. In most of popular depictions, these qualities of teen ...

The questions of when people first arrived in Australia and the nature of their dispersal across the continent are subjects of ongoing debate. A lack of ceramic artefacts and permanent structures has ...

In the beginning there was Day, that fundamental unit most simply determined by the rising and setting of our sun. Humanity went on to track the seasons, the cyclical passage of which came to be ...

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 ...

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 ...