Can a child legally take puberty blockers? What if their parents disagree?
Recent political attention might imply gender-affirming care is risky, controversial, perhaps even new. But Australian law ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Marianne Faithfull: the singer with an inimitable voice was a Romantic poet at heart
Marianne Faithfull, the London-born singer with an inimitable voice, has passed away at the age of 78. She was known for many ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...