Aboriginal Traditional Owners now have more control over parts of their ancestral lands – but a colonial-era quirk in water ...

The best stories crackle with a kind of electricity, but why they grab us can be hard to articulate. A new University of ...

Historically, medical research has excluded women as too complex. But a new University of Melbourne study is investigating ...

Taylor Swift’s ‘The Man’ should go further for feminism - focusing instead on not making ‘alpha male’ the standard, say University of Melbourne expert.

The first highly detailed anatomical study of the short-beaked echidna penis has demonstrated its innovative evolution, say experts from University of Melbourne ...

Australia’s young adults are putting their traditional steps towards adulthood on hold – spending more time living in the parental home. In fact, just over half of young men (54 per cent) and 47 per ...

Monolithic in scale and nature, Melbourne’s 47 public housing towers have become aging assets that present great challenges to the state government of Victoria. This has been amplified by Australia’s ...

All Australians have, to some extent, been negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic but the economic effects haven’t been uniform, and some have been hit much worse than others. People directly ...

Pointing to problems in Aboriginal communities can distract from recognising that they are not the only places with a drinking problem. In spite of decades of evidence to show that the use of alcohol ...

But half a millennium on from da Vinci’s observation, the quiet waters of the Renaissance have been replaced by oceans congested with vessels hundreds of metres long. The noise pollution that stems ...

A new study led by the University of Melbourne provides the first anatomical proof of why giraffes have spots – and how they relate to plastic surgery.