During fieldwork in cities in China I came across a new marital practice, locally described as liang-tou-dun, literally “two places to stay”. A bride and groom, each an only child of their respective ...

Girls with painful periods are twice as likely as their peers to have symptoms of anxiety or depression ...

When multibillion-dollar AI developer Anthropic released the latest versions of its Claude chatbot last week, a surprising word turned up several times in the accompanying “system card”: spiritual.

Interviews with female prisoners in WA show many struggled with violence, drugs, alcohol, poverty and homelessness from an early age.

Landfall is a haunting and propulsive crime novel, set in 2050s Sydney, that weighs the value of a human life on an ecologically ravaged planet.

The resolution cancels a Biden-era rule guaranteeing continued emissions controls on facilities emitting substantial amounts of seven “super-toxics,” including lead compounds, arsenic, mercury, and ...

The world’s remaining great primary forests, including those in Borneo, the Amazon and the Congo basin, are still threatened by deforestation. This harmful practice often has colonial origins.

Martha E. Walls, Associate Professor, History, Mount Saint Vincent University Part of a eugenic logic is the ongoing belief that erasing disability and people with disabilities is a desirable and ...

Researchers worked with Indigenous Rangers to map life in 34 estuaries across NSW using environmental DNA - and made a host of unexpected discoveries.

Catherine Hoad, Senior Lecturer in Critical Popular Music Studies, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University Dave Carter, Associate Professor, School of Music and Screen Arts, Te Kunenga ki ...

The digital giants earn billions from Australian consumers. But efforts to tax a fraction of those profits have gone nowhere.

But the early childhood sector faces issues around availability, quality and staffing.