Claudia Hooper

2020 has been grim, but there have been worse years. Here, experts from science, history and literature take us through just some of the other terrible times

Universities around the world are collaborating to crowd-source coronavirus accounts creating an archive of COVID-19 for future historians

The aroma of beer is a key indicator of its quality, now new technology can ‘sniff’ a beer to help brewers create top notch tasty brews and innovative flavours

A University of Melbourne researcher has invented a device that uses microwaves to control weeds, reducing the need for herbicides

If real-life politics is getting you down, these fictional political TV power players might inspire your interest instead

Camera traps are amazing tools that allow researchers to peek into the lives of shy marsupials, but sometimes the animals they ‘capture’ are surprising

Researchers are opening up the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to expose new treatment targets that could help eradicate the deadly disease

Our knowledge of the ancient world owes a lot to chance discoveries. Here, we share the stories of some of the most important and unlikely finds from ancient Western history

How an anthropologist’s cultural experiences in Cuba led to a multicultural music project in Melbourne