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Pride and prejudice: The fragile future of LGBTIQA+ rights

Once a celebration of progress, World Pride 2025 became a rallying cry against rising global attacks on LGBTIQA+ rights – and a call for united resistance.

Politics and society

Ectopic pregnancy: Understanding the physical, emotional and clinical burden

A global review examining ectopic pregnancy through clinical insight and lived experience highlights diagnosis, treatment, emotional recovery, and the need for patient-centred, equitable care.

Medicine and health

How heat speeds up the ageing process

Sustained heat takes it out of you, quite literally. Researchers have found heat accelerates ageing by changing how our bodies switch genes off and on.

Medicine and health

Why gender equity is essential for ethical technology innovation

Gender diversity in information and communications technology isn’t just necessary—it’s essential for fairness, innovation, and trust.

Technology

Leading the charge: Tackling tuberculosis and other diseases with mRNA

Monash’s Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences groundbreaking work on Australia’s first mRNA COVID-19 vaccine and, now, a new mRNA-LNP vaccine for tuberculosis, is positioning Australia as a leader in addressing global health challenges.

Medicine and health

Atapuerca’s ancient fossils: Redefining the timeline of human presence in Europe

The discovery of ATE7-1 at Atapuerca, Spain, offers insights into early human evolution in Europe, pushing the timeline of human presence back to 1.4 million years ago.

Medicine and health

The manosphere isn’t just about economic power – it’s about gender power

Andrew Tate's arrival in the US highlights the broader appeal of the manosphere beyond economic hardship, and why it's crucial to confront extremist sexism head-on.

Education

Is Australia going down the same Trump anti-trans path?

The answer is a tentative no, with three recent Australian legal decisions reaffirming the legal rights of trans people.

Politics and society

Dancing with digital partners: The creative revolution of generative AI

Generative AI is transforming the creative process, becoming a collaborator rather than a replacement for human creativity. Its impact spans various industries, from advertising to education, while raising important ethical considerations.

Education

The power of pulses

Pulses’ importance in global food security is more critical than ever, as they contribute to sustainable farming, improved nutrition, and climate resilience.

Science

World Cancer Day 2025: Getting personal with care

As a stage-four cancer survivor and a researcher, Muhamad Kamarudin experienced first-hand the urgent need for more precise, personalised treatments.

Medicine and health

AI and the acceleration of drug discovery

Why are there medicines that work miracles for some people and are useless, or even harmful, for others? AI could help find the answer.

Medicine and health

HIV treatment and prevention: A tale of two countries

The different approaches Australia and Malaysia initially took in addressing HIV highlights the essential role human rights must play if the world hopes to end AIDS as a public health threat.

Medicine and health

Episode 97: Can Good Stories Help Save the Planet?

See how storytelling, not statistics, can inspire climate action by highlighting resilience and innovation across the Indo-Pacific on a new episode of “What Happens Next?”

Podcast: What Happens Next?

Episode 96: Will Climate Change Wipe Out the Indo-Pacific?

Discover the urgent climate challenges facing the Indo-Pacific and the power of storytelling to drive meaningful climate action in this new “What Happens Next?” episode.

Podcast: What Happens Next?

COP29: Accelerating a just energy transition for a sustainable future

Enough time has been lost arguing “jobs versus climate” – the transition to renewable energy is now rightly understood as an economic opportunity, rather than a detrimental trade-off.

Sustainability

COP29: The untapped power of India’s self-help groups

Composed primarily of rural women, they’ve been a driving force behind social and economic empowerment, but could they transform from intuitive problem-solvers into organised, scalable forces for climate resilience?

Sustainability

Putting women front and centre in climate change reparations

Women from climate-vulnerable countries face devastating impacts and are disproportionately affected by disasters, which is why they must be included in the UN’s Loss and Damage Fund.

COP – The global forum for climate change

Episode 95: Can We Create a Better Reality?

While AI and robotics reshape our reality, experts explore how these emerging tools could be used to create a more equitable future – from healthcare breakthroughs to Indigenous-led innovation.

Podcast: What Happens Next?

Episode 94: Will AI Cut Us Off from Reality?

In the season nine premiere of Monash’s podcast, learn how AI, deepfakes and humanoid robots are transforming human interaction and our perception of reality.

Podcast: What Happens Next?

Southeast Asia’s energy security challenge

How can its energy systems transition to become climate-smart, to withstand extreme weather, while also protecting social and economic priorities?

Sustainability

The ‘What Happens Next?’ Podcast Is Back

Monash's award-winning podcast, “What Happens Next?”, returns for a ninth season that explores pressing global issues including reality in the digital age, climate change in the Indo-Pacific region and the ongoing struggle to eliminate gender-based violence.

Podcast: What Happens Next?

The ‘machine defendant’: Who’s to blame when AI makes mistakes?

As they improve, we’ll likely trust AI models with more and more responsibility. But if their autonomous decisions end up causing harm, our current legal frameworks may not be up to scratch.

Business and economy

I survived stage four prostate cancer – now I’m meeting the cells that unravelled my world

Nine years ago, Tim Baker was diagnosed with stage four, metastatic prostate cancer. Today, astonishingly, he’s fit and healthy, and meeting the scientists researching new treatments for this disease.

Medicine and health

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Pride and prejudice: The fragile future of LGBTIQA+ rights

Ectopic pregnancy: Understanding the physical, emotional and clinical burden

How heat speeds up the ageing process

Why gender equity is essential for ethical technology innovation

Leading the charge: Tackling tuberculosis and other diseases with mRNA

Atapuerca’s ancient fossils: Redefining the timeline of human presence in Europe

The manosphere isn’t just about economic power – it’s about gender power

Is Australia going down the same Trump anti-trans path?

Dancing with digital partners: The creative revolution of generative AI

The power of pulses

World Cancer Day 2025: Getting personal with care

AI and the acceleration of drug discovery

HIV treatment and prevention: A tale of two countries

Episode 97: Can Good Stories Help Save the Planet?

Episode 96: Will Climate Change Wipe Out the Indo-Pacific?

COP29: Accelerating a just energy transition for a sustainable future

COP29: The untapped power of India’s self-help groups

Putting women front and centre in climate change reparations

Episode 95: Can We Create a Better Reality?

Episode 94: Will AI Cut Us Off from Reality?

Southeast Asia’s energy security challenge

The ‘What Happens Next?’ Podcast Is Back

The ‘machine defendant’: Who’s to blame when AI makes mistakes?

I survived stage four prostate cancer – now I’m meeting the cells that unravelled my world