Skills training alone won't prepare graduates for a world where AI is doing the technical work. The real fix lies in how ...

Bees are critical to our biodiversity, but they’re in trouble. The University of Melbourne's new Map of the Month tells us ...

Not many scientific studies sound like a Bond film, but ours really does involve lasers, sharks and doctors (of research, not the evil kind). Sharks are not the easiest species to study, but ...

Back in 2004, there was a broadly cooperative pattern of economic relations between China and the US. It was also a time when Indonesia’s so-called ‘big bang decentralisation’ – which gave away ...

Predictive artificial intelligence (AI) hiring systems (AHSs) are used by employers every day to screen and shortlist job candidates. But while AI hiring systems promise time and cost savings for ...

Housework, child care, caring for elderly or disabled relatives, and work to keep the home running are still largely women’s work in Australia. This is despite the fact that, during the past 20 years, ...

Whichever way the data in the latest annual Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey is sliced and diced, the picture that emerges for single parents is harsh. They have some ...

How hot was it yesterday? Did those storms keep you awake? What’s happening with the fires? Have you seen how much rain is falling up North? We all love to talk about the weather, and right now it is ...

Mis- and disinformation have once again been named the top global risk of the immediate term in the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Risks Report 2025. This comes just days after Meta ...

Fire is a natural part of the Australian landscape. But the more frequent fires we’ve seen recently – particularly the high severity bushfires that consume or scorch the canopies of whole forests – ...

We’ve just lived through the world’s hottest year on record, as well as the hottest decade on record. And yet, we keep building our cities out of materials that get incredibly hot during heatwaves – ...

In 1490, Leonardo da Vinci wrote, “If you cause your ship to stop and place the head of a long tube in the water and place the outer extremity to your ear, you will hear ships at a great distance from ...