Researchers have uncovered two sticks in fireplaces inside a southeast Australia cave that provide profound insights into the rich heritage of local Indigenous people and curse-making practices.
Deepfakes are threatening privacy and security, and while detection methods using deep learning aim to combat the problem, there’s a long way to go.
Are the rapid advancements in AI, medicine and neuroscience propelling us towards a transhumanist future?
Could our fascination with objectivity be the Pied Piper that led us to develop a machine some of us now fear and avoid?
Children’s books implicitly shape the minds of young readers – and are covertly censored in many ways. But revising occasional words won’t usually shift the values regarded as outdated in the text.
While each city building is part of an overall urban composition, its individual impacts are also important. Here are eight of Melbourne’s best.
On a new episode of Monash University’s ‘What Happens Next?’ podcast, we delve into the world of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and the associated legal ramifications.
Human-centred design approaches can help solve some of our most pressing health challenges.
With COVID-19 continuing to curtail historians’ global work, the call has gone out for the valuable cultural artefacts lying closer to home.
A traditional technique to sharpen the mind has found success with medical students both as a way to remember facts, but also to learn more about Aboriginal culture.
How do you measure the worth of a tree? A forester sees the value of the timber, an environmentalist sees a habitat for possums, insects and birds, and an Indigenous Australian sees the tree as part of the living web of Country.
With the Australian flag increasingly seen as a fashion statement rather than what it's supposed to represent, is it time for a rethink?
Opioids are among the most powerful analgesics available to medicine, but they have huge capacity to cause harm. In trying to solve one problem, is a bigger one being created?
A Victorian site could hold the key to proving people lived in Australia 120,000 years ago, twice as long as first thought.
More than an architectural marvel, it remains to be seen if the damaged Notre-Dame will be caught up in the divisions of French society, or play a role as a symbol of unity.
A post-World War II service that delivered modernist house design to Melburnians could hold some answers to our current housing crisis.
Artist, writer, military man, engineer, lawyer, aesthete, designer and a leader. Former Victorian premier Ted Baillieu regards him as the greatest Australian of all time.
AI, robotics, advanced vision systems and drone-building are redefining one of the oldest sciences – geology.
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