Politics with Michelle Grattan: Albanese dumps Nature Positive legislation and considers shrinking the electoral reform bill
Hear Prime Minister Anthony Albanese explain why his government has dumped its controversial "Nature Positive" legislation, ...
Trump’s 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico amp up the risk of a broader trade war
Trump’s new tariff war with Canada and Mexico shows his willingness to weaponise trade in pursuit of unrelated political goals. Here’s why it matters globally.
The Austin 7 is back – a short history of the iconic British car that changed the automotive industry
Now it’s back, thanks to the engineer John Stubbs who bought the Austin brand after noticing the brand and trademarks were ...
Teens on social media: Red, blue and purple states are all passing laws to restrict and protect adolescents
In 1998, long before the age of Instagram or TikTok, the federal government set a minimal baseline for internet safety for ...
How the real murders behind the hit novel Butter exposed Japanese media misogyny
Novelist Asako Yuzuki took inspiration from Kijima’s case to create a fictional narrative for her novel Butter. It’s a story ...
Leonardo da Vinci’s incredible studies of human anatomy still don’t get the recognition they deserve
The Italian Renaissance artist created groundbreaking depictions of humans at a time when the inner workings of the body ...
DeepSeek claims to have cured AI’s environmental headache. The Jevons paradox suggests it might make things worse
In the 1860s, economist William Stanley Jevons said more efficient coal furnaces simply meant more coal was burned.
Property and sovereignty in space − as countries and companies take to the stars, they could run into disputes
Space isn’t lawless, but the agreements governing it don’t cover everything nations will have to grapple with as they develop ...
The Black librarian who rewrote the rules of power, gender and passing as white
Belle da Costa Greene, who was JP Morgan’s librarian, became a lively fixture at Gilded Age mansions, country retreats, ...
What happened in the German parliament and why is the far right hailing it as a ‘historic’ moment?
In a dramatic swing to the right, Friedrich Merz’s CDU is proposing Germany breaches EU law by closing its borders to ...
Can aching joints really predict the weather? Exploring the science behind the stormy debate
For centuries, people have claimed that their aching joints can predict changes in the weather, often reporting increased ...
Bogus scientific papers are enriching fraudsters and slowing lifesaving medical research
The world’s library of scientific papers is becoming contaminated as fraudsters use ‘paper mills’ to game scholarly ...