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The Seine will be used for Olympic events in 2024 and remain open for public swimming, ending a century-long ban. It’s part of a global movement to make city rivers healthy and swimmable again.
Family memoir and reimagined history dovetail beautifully in Kate Grenville’s latest novel.
Named after Greek and Roman mythical creatures, the lymph that flows around the body helps it fight off infection and maintain a fine balance of fluids.
Health workers who picked their noses were more likely to contract COVID, according to a new study. But here’s what the study means for the rest of us.
Evidence suggests late-night eating can be bad for our health.
Self-help articles and books usually point to the things we can do personally to get a good night’s sleep. But the wider social and economic causes of insomnia deserve more attention.
Interest in bird feeding surged soon after COVID lockdowns began in more than 100 countries. While this activity boosts people’s wellbeing, care must be taken to ensure it’s also good for the birds.
There’s no excuse for colluding not to complete on fees, but the time-consuming and complicated bidding process for design work encourages it.
Australia should revisit introducing the much debated carbon tax according to a new study that finds it can have both economic and environmental benefits.
School nurses are ‘real nurses’. And they can do everything from hearing checks and helping with injuries, to managing complex medical conditions at school.
Climate change and the nuclear threat are raising concerns about our planet’s future ability to support human life. If we launch a species survival mission, who should go?
Based on the book by Holly Ringland, new Australian seven episode TV series The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart on Prime Video is solid, well shot, naturalistic and thoroughly middlebrow.
In this podcast @michellegrattan and politics + society editor @amandadunn10 discuss Anthony Albanese's defensiveness when pressed on treaty, support for the Yes case slipping in polls, the
In this podcast, Thomas Mayo and Derryn Hinch discuss misinformation in the Voice to Parliament campaign.
We looked at two ads for the “no” campaign, and two for “yes”, to see how effective their communication strategies have been.
Jessica Zhan Mei Yu’s witty, ‘effervescent’ debut novel follows a Sylvia-Plath-loving young Malaysian-Australian writer’s journey to ‘the heart of empire’ in the UK.
The Voyager 2 spacecraft is 20 billion kilometres away and has lost track of Earth. A radio dish near Canberra is the only channel for re-establishing communication.
Trump faces fresh charges over his alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election result – but how it will affect his 2024 run for the White House remains to be seen.
It might surprise you to know we share our cities and towns with a huge range of native animals. But dog and cat poo can signal to wildlife that predators are about and they should stay away.
Just as the artists of the last revolution grappled with their age’s social and spiritual upheavals, our artists today must rise to the challenge and opportunities of AI technology.
What happens when wild native bush rats meet cockroaches they’ve never seen before?
By including five extinct species in its Bird of the Year competition, Forest & Bird provides a way to mourn what we’ve lost – and also strive to save what remains.
Mammograms are usually analysed by two doctors. But a new study found using one doctor with AI assistance detected 20% more cancers and reduced the workload by 44%.
Researchers asked more than 350 adults to weigh themselves daily or weekly. They found a yo-yo pattern of weight gain over festive periods and cooler months.