
How does Australia’s migration system actually work? 5 common myths busted
Think it’s easy to get a visa to Australia? Or that migrants get government benefits? Think again.
Independent Analysis and Reportage

Think it’s easy to get a visa to Australia? Or that migrants get government benefits? Think again.

Winter evenings are the perfect time to escape into another world, with teachers in Korea, a fortune teller in Japan, or in a retirement village in New Mexico.

Properly addressing the problem of space requires work across three fronts: technology, policy and philosophy.

Crown-of-thorns starfish and long-spined sea urchins can rapidly devour healthy reefs.

Lung cancer screening promises to find cancer early and treat it before it progresses. But a year on, issues have emerged.

It’s a sentence that can feel heartbreaking to parents. You try to set a boundary with your little one and they lash out.

What can research tell us about the upsides and risks of going to auction? And what can a failed auction mean for a property’s final selling price?

New telescopes are challenging the idea that the cosmic web fades into a uniform, directionless distribution. It may be closer to a tangled yarn than a misty fog.

Even though Mexico is the US’s top trade partner, the fate of the pact underpinning that relationship is uncertain.

The Montréal shooter was a lonely, furious young man who built an ideology to justify killing, and its bedrock was a hatred of women.

How prepared are we for a solar storm, bad software update or cybersecurity event that could trigger widespread loss of satellite control?

Scientific and engineering breakthroughs are allowing us to make ammonia from pollution rather than fossil fuels.