Hundreds of diplomats from almost every country just met for four weeks at United Nations headquarters in New York to review the most comprehensive nuclear non-proliferation treaty in the world. And ...

Diesel is critical to Australia. Any supply disruption has immediate and widespread consequences, given Australia imports almost 80% of its liquid fuels. As the energy shocks of the Iran war ripple ...

Leidy Solis, of Colombia, celebrates after competing in the women’s weightlifting at the Enhanced Games. Jae C. Hong/AP How it all works. Forty-two athletes will compete in swim ...

Australia has to ensure it can build and run these expensive projects without Chinese investors’ participation.

For the past 15 years or so, a class of drugs called immune checkpoint inhibitors have been used to treat melanoma – the most dangerous kind of skin cancer. For many patients, they produce remarkable ...

In our new study, we followed more than 12,000 older Australians to find out if staying socially and mentally active could help people stay physically fit in older age. Here’s what we discovered. As ...

New data shows more than one quarter of Australian students receive a disability adjustment. This is up from 18% in 2015.

From Snowy Hydro to Inland Rail, projects get announced early, then costs soar tens of billions higher. Yet there are proven ways to stop that happening.

Most of Errol Flynn’s films now seem B-grade at best – but Patricia O'Brien’s biography of this Tasmanian devil is compulsive reading.

Researchers have revealed the identities of six sailors and shed new light on the expedition that went missing more than 170 ...

Catholic nuns and religious sisters are gaining new visibility in digital spaces. These contemporary self-representations are connected to a complicated history.

Indigenous people have a far higher risk of early stroke than non-Indigenous people. It’s often caused by atrial fibrillation, which may not have any symptoms.