Two scientists, who today are colleagues, were on opposite sides of the Berlin Wall when it came down 30 years ago. Here they reflect on 1989 and what it meant ...

Chair of Family Violence Prevention, Royal Women's Hospital and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne Professor ...

A new book explores how the kangaroo became a quarry, a resource and a point of violent conflict between settlers and Australia’s Aboriginal people ...

Modernist design ushered in a new way of thinking in Australia and inspired some of our most iconic architecture. Two architectural historians look at the legacy of some of our top designs ...

Men with obesity have been associated with more aggressive forms of prostate cancer, and poorer treatment outcomes. Professor Matt Watt is researching the relationship between these diseases and how ...

Head, Anaesthesia Research, Royal Melbourne Hospital; Honorary Professorial Fellow, Centre for Integrated Critical Care, Melbourne Medical School, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences, ...

Florey Senior Principal Research Fellow, Preclinical Critical Care Unit, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health; Affiliate, Centre for Integrated Critical Care; Honorary, Department of ...

This year’s dry winter is good news for Melbourne’s hay fever sufferers, but after last year’s thunderstorm asthma event claimed nine lives, there are never any guarantees when it comes to pollen ...

Understanding the interaction between increasing rainfall and dry soil conditions can help us better plan for the consequences of climate change ...

Head, Human T cell Laboratory, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne at The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity ...

As National Science Week celebrates scientific discovery in Australia, we ask what’s likely to be the ‘next big thing’ in some of the most exciting fields of science research? The platypus is a ‘near ...

Honorary Professor, Social Work, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, Co-researcher, MAEVe (Melbourne Research Alliance to End Violence Against women and their children), University of ...