Festering families, difficult truths and transcendent grace: best podcasts of 2025

Friendship is magic: male dolphins with close friends age more slowly

Like friendship itself, the slower ageing is more than just skin deep.

ATAR results are in – but your number doesn't define you

As Year 12 students receive their rankings this week, experts say there are many pathways forward and it's OK to keep your result private

Temperatures in a patch of Antarctic moss can vary as much as an entire mountain range

The moss beds in Antarctica are like miniature forests – they create their own climate.

Meet the weird, wonderful creatures that live in Australia’s desert water holes

They might not be there much longer

100 years on, T.S. Eliot’s The Hollow Men is a poem for our populist moment

Diagnostic and symptomatic, accusatory and culpable, communal and personal, The Hollow Men is a poem about that which ails society at large.