The results of the ACTT-1 trial, which looked at the effectiveness of remdesivir as a treatment for COVID-19, have ...

Since her death in 1886, Emily Dickinson has haunted us in many forms. She has been the precocious ...

Cathedrals and chapels have played vital roles in the development of Christian culture. As a scholar of the Bible, ...

When Charles Dickens died on June 9, 1870, newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic framed his loss ...

William Shakespeare is widely regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time and one of the ...

The coronavirus is concentrating our minds on the fragility of human existence in the face of a deadly ...

With the FDA approving Gilead’s Remdesivir as an emergency use treatment for the most acute cases of COVID-19, many people ...

These are unprecedented times–but, even so, comparisons are being made to the World War II in terms of ...

Australia's federal government has announced plans to introduce a contact tracing mobile app to help curb COVID-19’s spread ...

To give students more time to visit and consider other factors, a number of colleges have pushed back their ...

Ansel Adams’s bold, black-and-white landscapes of the American wilderness are so iconic that most people know an Adams ...

Snakes – the Chinese krait and the Chinese cobra – may be the original source of the newly ...

Commentary As monstrous blazes overwhelm Australia’s south-east, the need for a national bushfire policy has never been more ...

The student of Greek mythology is often struck by the fact that some gods and goddesses have extensive ...

Whisky (or whiskey if you’re Irish or American) has a 1,000-year long history. According to legend, Irish monks traveling ...

Conductors are a relatively new breed of musician. Only as compositions became more complex circa 1810 (blame Beethoven!) ...

Around 2005, the Chinese government began pushing its policy of huaren canzheng, or “ethnic Chinese participation in politics ...

Record warm temperatures above Antarctica over the coming weeks are likely to bring above-average spring temperatures and below-average ...

What did we do before smartphones? Our devices have become an essential tool for modern life, even when ...

Leonardo da Vinci has attracted more than his fair share of speculative nonsense in the modern day. Not ...

The Morrison government has declared that Australian citizen and writer Dr. Yang Hengjun has not been spying for ...

A 2017 report from the Brookings Institute showed that the research on summer learning is actually quite mixed.

Two Australian universities, University of Technology Sydney and Curtin University, are conducting internal reviews of their funding and research approval ...

Deutsche Bank caused a recent stir with the seemingly sudden announcement that it would cut 18,000 jobs – one fifth ...

“It belongs in a museum.” With these words, Indiana Jones, the world’s best-known fictional archaeologist, articulated an association between ...

Type “Holy Grail” into Google and … well, you probably don’t need me to finish that sentence. The ...

By Anne Twomey The election is over, the Coalition has won the most seats. But we don’t yet ...