It’s been 13 years since Rockstar Games released Grand Theft Auto V, one of the most acclaimed – and controversial – video games of all time. As fans count down the days to GTA VI's release, online debate is raging about whether playing the new romantic storyline is ‘cheating’. Academics who study games and virtual ethics say it's been fuelled by how gamers relate to increasingly lifelike digital worlds.

Iconic Australian department store David Jones has been handed over to administrators. Despite more than a century  of trade, its model was built on something far less sustainable, and it could no longer paper over the cracks.

Whale expert, marine scientist and science communicator Dr Vanessa Pirotta has been named New South Wales’ 2027 Australian of the Year.

Wars in the Middle East and Eastern Europe have done more than drive diesel prices higher. They have redrawn the global map of buyers and sellers.

When Dr Ariella Heffernan-Marks first envisioned Ovum, she was a young doctor undertaking an internship in a Bondi Junction hospital. In a healthcare landscape where women often feel dismissed, the Macquarie alumna is building what she bills as a revolutionary AI infrastructure to close the $1trillion gender health gap.

This Halloween, trick-or-treaters the world over will don pointy black hats and drag along a broom as they trawl the neighbourhood in pursuit of lollies. This typical representation of the “witch” originates from medieval European witch trials. But the concept of witchcraft is much older.

Growing physical and mental health impacts of climate change on young people in Australia and New Zealand, alongside rising economic costs.

Sunlight at night? A US start up imitated the reflection of sun from mirrors they plan to install in space, prompting pushback from environmentalists, scientists, and California locals.

Meet Macquarie filmmaker Tristan Woodington, whose queer short film They Persist began with a conversation on a train and became an exploration of identity, memory and the versions of ourselves that live on in other people.

Six Macquarie University researchers have secured more than $4 million from FightMND, a leading fundraising and advocacy organisation, to advance research into motor neurone disease (MND).

From birth to death, we all need to be cared for, but as years of headlines have shown, Australia’s care economy faces big challenges. Academics examine how the country’s increasingly for-profit models of care are failing those they’re supposed to protect.

Could this egg-laying mammal help unlock the secrets of human reproduction? Australian researchers are finding out.