Cognitive ability tends to decline with age, and the slide steepens once we've blown out the candles on our 50th birthday cake.

The latest HILDA Survey has found that cognitive and financial literacy scores of 15 to 24-year-olds have declined.

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Arts West arches ✨

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The latest HILDA Survey shows that relationship quality can be a rollercoaster🎢
It starts high, declines until about 24yrs after moving in together, then gradually increases again after age 65.

Melbourne Institute found one significant strain on a relationship: financial stress → unimelb.me/4iGARJN

Two AI systems. One loan application. Two different explanations for rejection.

This UniMelb study is examining the complexities that emerge when AI systems don't align in their reasoning and what this means for people affected by automated decisions → unimelb.me/4xB3nAs

Spring in Melbourne is notorious for setting off people's allergies, and now we know who the culprit is 🌾

UniMelb experts used DNA metabarcoding to identify what was in weekly air samples collected over 2 consecutive years. Turns out perennial ryegrass could be the reason → unimelb.me/4xyxQ1H

Emeritus Professor Graeme Clark AC, whose breakthroughs have brought the gift of hearing to over 650,000 people globally, has been awarded the 2026 Honda Prize.

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A moment for our archways 🏛️💙

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Six academics from across UniMelb have been recognised at the 2026 Young Tall Poppy Awards 🏆

The Young Tall Poppy Awards celebrate rising scientists who deliver outstanding research and help build public understanding of science and its value to society → unimelb.me/46jmBiP

New research shows that the resting heart rate in 70% of participants followed a cyclic pattern over years, suggesting that the body has a built-in biological pacemaker controlling our heart rate long term 🫀

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Innovation is central to Australia’s prosperity 📈

A new index charts Australian innovation across nearly two decades. It shows a country with real potential and where we need to focus to realise it.

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Spring has well and truly sprung across our Parkville campus 🌿

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How does Melbourne grow as the nation’s ‘cultural capital’?

Melbourne's future has a real chance to strengthen itself: by acknowledging and celebrating its history, by rethinking how we educate ourselves and one another, and by shifting the narrative → https://unimelb.me/4yusTrU

In this Pursuit story, Lecturer Dr Emily Frawley from the Faculty of Education unpacks how fostering genuine dialogue and critical engagement with diverse perspectives is essential for a healthy democracy.

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What’s the first thing you do when you’re awarded a Nobel Prize?

Deliver a first-year chemistry tutorial of course, and then celebrate ⚛️

Tap through to read more about Professor Robson’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry → unimelb.me/46YXtxo