The Australian Federal Police recently announced plans to use DNA samples collected at crime scenes to make predictions about potential suspects. This technology, called forensic “DNA phenotyping”, ...

Explore the groundbreaking findings on the settlement of Australia and ancient human migration patterns linked to Aboriginal ancestry. All this is why a new paper looking at the broader genomic ...

Figure 1: Aboriginal Australian and Papuan samples used in this study, as well as archaeological sites and human remains dated to ~40 kya or older in southern Sunda and Sahul. To date, only three ...

Caitlin Curtis receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC). James Hereward does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or ...

But the seamer stranglehold of Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood allowed only brief interludes for just three ...

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At a certain age, you start noticing patterns in your life—not just in events, but in yourself. You see how certain choices repeat, how some opportunities seem to magnetize toward you, and others slip ...

A genomic analysis has helped to show that Australia’s invasive rabbit population probably originated from a shipment of two dozen wild English rabbits that arrived near Melbourne on Christmas Day ...

If you are one of the millions around the world who launched into a personal journey to discover your ancestry, you know how addictive the process can become. With a seemingly unlimited set of ...

At the Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane, the award-winning installation honours the past, present and future of First Nation Australians ...