Australia has surpassed 700,000 overseas students for the first time, while over 50,000 visa applications were rejected in the last three months.

The Victorian Government has rejected key recommendations from the Yoorrook Justice Commission's inquiry into child protection and criminal justice systems.

Advocates want Centrelink to lower the age of independence for Youth Allowance from 22 to 18.

Scientists have mapped the complete sugarcane genome.

New research suggests mRNA could be used to target Alzheimer’s disease.

Experts have outlined research priorities for zooplankton - tiny creatures at the heart of the marine food chain.

Experts say Australia is on track for unprecedented, decades-long megadroughts.

Betelgeuse,one of the best known stars in the galaxy, could become the first observed supernova in over four centuries.

Reports say that close to a third of jobs created last year were for the NDIS.

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For the last few weeks we have been bogged down in the very Earthly matters of royalty, budgets, politics, humanity and celebrity - all good prompts to look away, up into the infinite. 

Health authorities, politicians and scientists have been slowly introducing the world to the concept of ‘One Health’ - an all-inclusive approach to health that extends from the human body right through the global environment. 

This year’s Nobel Prizes honour discoveries that unwind our notion of truth, our understanding of ourselves and the human story, the complexities of cells and the very basics of the universe. 

XENOTRANSPLANTATION - sounds like something that would happen to an ill-fated crew member in Star Trek, but it is also a technical term for using non-human parts to treat or enhance our own bodies. 

Even though many of us have been forced indoors, the COVID-19 crisis is eroding our privacy.

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