A new University of Melbourne trial has found nature-based prescribing generated wellbeing benefits for young Australians ...

As a professor and cognitive scientist at the University of Melbourne and Director of the Complex Human Data Hub, much of my research focuses on the study of ...

This work was funded by the Victorian Government Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action (DEECA) in collaboration with the U.S. Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, ...

Advocating for climate change action can sometimes feel like pushing a huge boulder up a hill. News headlines are filled with breaking climate records, while governments, including Australia’s, are ...

From movies to TV and parental anecdotes, teenagers are often characterised as risk-taking and impulsive with poor decision-making skills. In most of popular depictions, these qualities of teen ...

In 1490, Leonardo da Vinci wrote, “If you cause your ship to stop and place the head of a long tube in the water and place the outer extremity to your ear, you will hear ships at a great distance from ...

Australia’s young adults are putting their traditional steps towards adulthood on hold – spending more time living in the parental home. In fact, just over half of young men (54 per cent) and 47 per ...

In 2021, the Morrison Government introduced the Job-ready Graduates Package. If you haven’t heard of it or don’t remember the announcement, the policy aimed to steer university students away from “low ...

The Universe is over 13 billion years old and space is often depicted as a vast, empty vacuum. Other than planets and stars, there’s nothing there, right? The James Web Space Telescope (JWST) – the ...

What if I asked you, what is your favourite food? Can you pick just one? Now what if I asked you, WHY is it your favourite? “Easy” – you’d probably say, “because I like the way it tastes”. But could ...

Australia’s Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme has published its findings. And it’s a damning read. Various unnamed individuals are referred for potential civil or criminal investigation, but ...

If you look around any waiting room or queue of people, almost all will be on a mobile phone. But alleviating boredom is just one way digital devices are being increasingly used to manage emotions ...