Science & Health

Since health officials confirmed the first COVID-19 cases, misinformation has spread just as quickly as the virus. Social media may …

Meditation and mindfulness practices in Western nations are booming. One report estimates that 55 million Americans engaged in meditation in …

If ever there is a time when you really do need to see a doctor in person, as opposed to …

Voluntary assisted dying (VAD) has been legal in countries such as Switzerland and the Netherlands for more than a decade.  …

As the need to cut greenhouse gas emissions becomes increasingly urgent, governments of all levels, as well as private businesses …

Days out from the event, festival goers for Canberra’s Groovin the Moo festival were told the event would no longer …

It started with a tweet. On 14 January 2020, as the world waited anxiously for news about the emerging virus …

While the nation takes stock to remember our Anzacs this week, we need to take a moment to think about …

Costly delays in reporting and responding helped COVID-19 spread. But the failures that saw it become a pandemic were of …

In his classic book Straight and Crooked Thinking – now in its fifth edition (2011) – Robert H. Thouless describes many …

The founding father of Federation Henry Parkes declared in 1890 that Australia should “embrace the power that is conferred by …

The global ‘war on drugs’ is one of the single-most catastrophic public policy failures in history. Now one Victorian MP …