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While other superheroes draw on past trauma for strength, super-detective Jessica Jones wryly bares her wounds and questions the whole hero gig.
Cultures around the world call the Pleiades constellation ‘seven sisters’, even though we can only see six stars today. But things looked quite different 100,000 years ago
At a time when history is so contested, the gift of the Uluru Statement is that it provides a basis for redefining — and retelling the stories of — the nation.
The clever strategy by Premier Daniel Andrews to defer analysis of the failed hotel quarantine program until the virus had been suppressed makes the findings largely academic and historical.
The Christmas we celebrate today around the world, whether in northern winter or southern summer, has its roots in many cultures and traditions.
We’ve already sent probes to land on Mars. The challenge now is to get people there and bring them home again.
As the holiday season begins after months of reduced travel, wildlife hospitals are braced for a new wave of admissions.
If your gut is healthy to begin with, it will take more to knock it out of whack. Prepare yourself now by making food choices that feed the microbiome and enhance gut health.
Which countries emerge best from the pandemic, and how the world tackles the climate crisis, will be among the defining features of global politics in the coming year.
The pandemic delivered a political year like no other. The risk now is that the country returns to a ‘normal’ that wasn’t working to start with.
The most important changes in Scott Morrison’s limited reshuffle are centred on two vital and controversial issues that will severely test the government in coming months.
The cluster in Sydney’s northern beaches is likely linked to a US strain of the virus. But no one knows how it got there.
We still don’t know if current vaccines prevent people from transmitting the virus to others. Here’s why that matters in 2021.
The method, using satellite data and other information, could reduce the work of fire forensics teams after bushfires.
Airborne data like this is usually available only to industry and government agencies and researchers — rarely to the public.
The president-elect is also likely to be less tolerant of Israel’s settlement expansion and the inroads Russia and Turkey have made into the Middle East.
It was once thought the Aboriginal names for the Hawkesbury had been lost forever. But after a remarkable find in the Mitchell Library, almost 100 place names will be restored to Dyarubbin Country.
‘Catching a baby’ or caring for new parents on Christmas Day is special, midwives say. But Christmas can also be a vulnerable time for many women, especially so during a pandemic.
The Morrison government has through great skill and some luck helped avoid Austrlaia a COVID catastrophe.
Christmas is traditionally a time of giving, including to charities and the needy. But what happens when so few of us carry cash anymore?
New Zealanders will travel more during the summer period and it is more important than ever to use the contact-tracing app to improve our chances of controlling any potential outbreaks.
Students prefer videos that are simply produced, convenient to watch and with a narrative that’s delivered in an informal conversational way.
A collaboration between Australian and German scientists gives an unrivalled view of the structure of the Universe.
When he ended 2019 amid literal and political smoke, it would have seemed inconceivable Scott Morrison could finish 2020 on a high. Or that he’d have reached there on the back of Australia’s worst downturn…