Christopher Nolan's film is the latest of countless retellings – in opera, poetry, comics and video games. And the epic's own ...

Flooding, displacement and housing insecurity are no longer distant issues. Houses that move with people are helping ...

Gender bias is deeply ingrained in hiring and work. In Australia, women on average earn 23 per cent less than men, are less often invited for a job interview and are evaluated more harshly. That AI ...

An Australian summer rarely passes without another chilling headline about a shark attack. And while the first response to the now seemingly regular attacks is to call for a cull, killing them is not ...

This is an edited extract from the Miegunyah Lecture 2016, Chopin’s Piano: A Path through the Romantic Century, delivered by Dr Kildea on 19 May, 2016 The eminent pianist Wanda Landowska departed ...

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 ...

A global mental health crisis is evolving. And at the forefront of the surging rates of mental health disorders globally are women, who are disproportionately affected when compared to men. While men ...

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, ...

Human beings have five senses – taste, touch, sight, hearing and smell. These senses help us navigate the world and act as warning signs of dangers. We use them to make everyday decisions; for example ...

Combining travel with remote work was once a relatively niche lifestyle. But these days, digital nomadism has matured into the mainstream. This surge in numbers – a reported 131 per cent growth ...

In 1848, the Scottish explorer Thomas Mitchell wrote “fire, grass, kangaroos, and human inhabitants, seem all dependent on each other for existence in Australia; for any one of these being wanting, ...