Artificial Intelligence chatbots like ERNIE Bot, ChatGPT and DeepSeek can often outperform doctors in diagnosis, but we need ...

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 ...

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 ...

Floating in a small jar of alcohol sits one of Australia’s rarest specimens. The jar, labelled collection number C5757, holds a juvenile Tasmanian tiger or thylacine, one of the best-preserved extinct ...

Natural disasters like floods and heat waves demonstrate the real lack of control people have over the environment – although some of those disasters may actually be a consequence of human decisions ...

The last few weeks have seen an escalation in racially motivated abuse towards people from Asian backgrounds, both here in Australia and around the world. But we’re also seeing this racism spark ...

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 ...

What if I asked you, what is your favourite food? Can you pick just one? Now what if I asked you, WHY is it your favourite? “Easy” – you’d probably say, “because I like the way it tastes”. But could ...

Australians are increasingly dropping their religious affiliations, particularly younger Australians, according to the latest annual Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey ...

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 ...

Australians like their pets, and for most of us by far, the dog remains our best friend. For the first time, the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey that covers 17,000 ...

Probiotics are gaining popularity around the world and demand for probiotic food products and supplements is increasing. Supermarkets, health food stores and pharmacies are full of different types of ...