Celebrating the Year of the Dragon

From the percussive Samul Nori to the universal shopping centre playlists, musicians from diverse backgrounds share what the Lunar New Year sounds and feels like.

The Chinese dragon has long been associated with the Emperor of China, and by extension China itself. The coming Year of the Dragon this Lunar New Year is a reminder of how the dragon is a significant and auspicious symbol for people all over the world.

Human preoccupation with beauty has a long history, but these experts say something new is at play.

Working long hours can be stressful. While a break can help, what happens when the holiday is over, you've returned to work and that sense of tiredness still lingers?

Australian scientists have made countless groundbreaking discoveries. The Science Show's Robyn Williams has selected a 'Top 100' and he wants to know what you think.

From bean-like seed pods to the rib cage of an emu, Emily Kam Kngwarray drew inspiration from her Country and became an exceptionally prolific and commercially successful artist.

From Ballerina Farm to Nara Smith, we can't help but fixate on the perfect lives of mumfluencers, no matter how problematic. But, for my own wellbeing, I need to look away.

Eddie Perfect has been to Broadway and back with music theatre composer credits including Beetlejuice and King Kong, not to mention home-grown hit Shane Warne: The Musical. Now he's set to play as Dr Pangloss and Voltaire in Leonard Bernstein's exquisitely convoluted opera Candide with Victorian Opera.

Scientists are changing the genetics of cells so that they can be used for a whole range of purposes never before imagined. The potential is enormous, but there are warnings from within the field, not to let the hype get ahead of reality.

Pulitzer Prize winning Libyan author Hisham Matar on friendship in political exile and British author Ela Lee on the power of friendship at times of personal crisis.

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