With a climate-denialist re-elected as US president and another petrostate host (following Dubai in 2023) – hopes for ambitious outcomes at the 29th UN Climate Change ‘Conference of the Parties’ ...

As 2021 drew to a close, the focus for children, parents, carers and educators alike was getting schooling back on track and re-establishing familiar routines while maintaining wellbeing ...

First person accounts of a bushranger’s life are rare: there are very few bushranger memoirs or autobiographies. A couple of exceptions appeared in the 1870s, both of which presented themselves as ...

Honorary Fellow, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne.

How has it come to this? For many observers outside the United States, it is almost inconceivable that Donald Trump has reclaimed the American Presidency. But he has. Donald Trump’s re-election must ...

According to ancient records, the famous Greek writer and speaker Gorgias of Leontini lived to be over a hundred years old. He was born in 485 BC and died around 380 BC. When Gorgias was in his old ...

In South Sudan, there is an age-old practice called bride price. A groom’s family pays a bride’s family for the marriage, usually in cattle. As the Dinka tribe in South Sudan has a largely ...

Melbourne Cup Day means different things to different people. For some, it’s an exciting day of fashion and competition. For others, it’s a distressing reason for a public holiday. Many people observe ...

3D printing has exploded in popularity over the past decade, introducing countless new approaches that allow both researchers and hobbyists to transform their designs into physical objects in just a ...

Associate Professor and head of the Collins BioMicrosystems Laboratory (CBML), Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Melbourne ...

Australia’s engineering skills and labour shortage is at its highest level in over a decade. According to a recent Engineers Australia report, demand for engineering skills is growing at three times ...

There’s been no shortage of talk during this US election campaign about the role social media is playing in influencing how Americans vote. From an AI-conjured image of Taylor Swift supposedly backing ...