It is undeniably impressive. Uluru--a.k.a. Ayers Rock--that abrupt sandstone mountain that shimmers up out of Australia's desolate "Red Centre" like some vivid, prehistoric hallucination. But the ...

I wrote recently about the Australian Rock Garden at the Arboretum & Botanic Garden at UC Santa Cruz, as a resource for home gardeners. For today’s column, we’ll outline the history, design and ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Archaeologists have discovered a new style of ancient Australian rock art that features unusual depictions of human and animal figures, seemingly living in harmony. The works from this ancient art ...

"The normal thing for a band to do would to be to keep on toward the bright, shining lights – but instead we went completely in another direction." Roadshow Films has revealed an official trailer for ...

One very popular Australian rock star just had a daughter. Michael Clifford, the lead guitarist of the Australian pop-punk ...

The land down under can be tough to wrap your head around. It’s a continent, a country and an island. In terms of land mass, it’s close in size to the continental USA. Still, the total population is ...

As connoisseurs of marsupials and platypuses know, evolution in Australia happens in a parallel manner to elsewhere, but sort of upside-down, occasionally even laying eggs. So an American trying to ...

The long, contentious debate in Australia over the future of the sacred Uluru is over. Climbing the famed Northern Territory site will be banned from October 2019 following a unanimous decision by the ...