Society

‘I was on the floor, leaning against the wall on the carpet and I was in the middle of crying.’

The family of a Perth teenager who is battling a sixth relapse of leukaemia are desperately trying to fund potentially lifesaving treatment overseas after exhausting all medical options in Australia.

THE WASHINGTON POST: If you’re one of the 15 million people who shared your DNA with 23andMe, it’s time to delete your data.

Han Jong-Hee, co-chief executive of Samsung Electronics who joined the technology giant nearly 40 years ago has died in hospital after a medical incident on Tuesday.

‘I always tell people the way I play, but most people don’t take me seriously.’

Young travelling Australians will be targeted on social media, podcasts, at airports and with text messages warning them of the dangers of methanol poisoning and urging them to keep an eye on their mates.

A US photographer's creative twist on dog adoption social media posts have taken the world by storm and helped scores of pooches find new homes.

The growing popularity of platforms such as OnlyFans has been linked to an increase in the number of Australians seeking help for pornography addiction.

‘You hear about it happening to other families, and it’s awful, but you never imagine it to happen to your own parent.’

After an incredible 286 consecutive days in space, the mental toll on NASA’s astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore may be more serious than their smiles and thumbs-up signals indicated.   

THE WASHINGTON POST: If an idea of ‘evolving dark energy’ holds up under further investigation, it would put many different cosmic futures in play.

Both sides of politics have vowed to stare down the Trump Administration if it goes after Australia’s $18 billion medicine subsidy scheme

Nature has found a way after an echidna was spotted on an island where wildlife was mostly destroyed by a devastating bushfire more than a decade ago, leading experts to rejoice.

With five years left of Earth’s ‘decisive decade’, Sam Elsom speaks about the headwinds and heartbreak of finding solutions in a world often indifferent to what he sees as the most pressing issue for us all.

The big-name tech billionaires have established themselves as a global ruling class but how are they using their combined trillion-dollar wealth to carve out a better future for the planet?