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Alanna Smith is visiting Melbourne between WNBA and Unrivaled seasons.

Alanna Smith had the best year of her WNBA career. The league is falling apart

Last month, Alanna Smith was named the WNBA co-defensive player of the year. Next month, she might get shut out of playing in the league.

  • Frances Howe

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Simulation of a black hole merger detected by LIGO on January 14, 2025.

Two black holes collided 1.3 billion light years away. Australian scientists were there for the big moment

It’s the most significant leap forward in the study of black holes in decades, and proved a theory conceived by one of history’s greatest minds.

  • Angus Dalton
Alan Boulton has been charged with possessing child abuse material.

Former judge accused of possessing child abuse material allowed to go on luxury overseas trip

A Melbourne academic will be allowed to travel to Europe on a business trip after allegedly mistakenly showing child abuse material during a lecture earlier this year.

  • Erin Pearson
Arts students face a bizarre fee systems in which some subjects can cost four times the amount as others.

One uni subject costs $578, the other $2124. What would the average student choose?

I started an arts course this year only to find my choice of subjects meant I would pay as little as $14,000 or as much as $50,000 for my degree. Bizarre cost discrepancies are rife.

  • Saria Ratnam
Monash University’s Professor Mary Herbert with a colleague.

Healthy babies born to cutting-edge, controversial new three-person IVF technique

Eight babies have been born from a cutting-edge and controversial three-person IVF technique, Australian and British scientists have revealed.

  • Liam Mannix
Monash University vice chancellor Sharon Pickering: “We can’t just rely on dialling things down.”

‘You can’t just turn it off’: Monash vice chancellor on confronting hate on campus

Sharon Pickering says universities need to do more than just dial down conflicts on campus when confronting antisemitism.

  • Chip Le Grand
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Australia’s anti-cheating laws are facing their first test in court.

Five students were caught cheating. Now it’s gone to court in a landmark case

The Federal Court will hear an Australian-first case after five students allegedly used a major company to cheat on their work.

  • Daniella White
Lee Gordon-Brown today.

He disarmed a gunman at Monash Uni after being shot twice. Now, he doesn’t worry about little things

After being shot in his arm and leg, former lecturer Lee Gordon-Brown sprang into action to save others. As The Age turns 170, we revisit people who captured the nation’s attention.

  • Carolyn Webb
A structural image of LYCHOS, a plant-like protein discovered in humans by Australian scientists.

The ‘plant-like’ structure in humans that could block tumours

Australian scientists have discovered a previously unknown link between plants and humans which could help in the treatment of cancer.

  • Angus Dalton
International students Vedant Gadhavi and Ayushi Patel at Monash University.

Labor facing growing resistance to international student caps

The Albanese government is planning sweeping reforms to cap foreign enrolments for 2025 – but universities and students are rallying in opposition.

  • Noel Towell

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