John Elder
What’s next for Trump after his ex-lawyer’s explosive confessions
To understand what happens next with Donald Trump – now that his personal lawyer Michael Cohen has been sentenced to jail and...
Alzheimer’s may be transferable between people: research confirms
Evidence is building that brain-damaging sticky proteins – central to Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative conditions – are transmissible between people under...
How an exploding star may have wiped out Earth’s sea monsters
About 2.6 million years ago, when small-bodied and small-brained human ancestors were first chipping flakes off rocks, they may have noticed a...
Up your nose with a slippery hose: Rare seals are snorting eels
Like many endangered species, the Hawaiian monk seal has struggled to draw attention to its many trials – some of which are...
Arrest of Huawei telco exec: The new cold war runs hot
The arrest in Canada of Meng Wanzhou, an executive with Chinese telco giant Huawei, is more than an ‘up-yours’ to China from...
Magic pudding: All you can eat and no weight gain, new research suggests
With Christmas gorging on the horizon, an Australian-led study has had a tantalising breakthrough: By suppressing a single gene, it appears you...
Chemicals in beauty products may explain girls’ earlier puberty
A long-running study of mothers and children has found that chemicals widely used in shampoo, deodorant, nail polish and cosmetics are linked...
Coulda been a contender: Why Tony Abbott keeps on punching
Two significant events happened this weekend: Boxer Anthony Mundine was knocked out in 96 seconds by Jeff Horn, ending a career that...
Australia’s most lethal animals revealed – and they’re not the ones you thought
Horses and cows kill more Australians than sharks, crocodiles, snake and spiders combined. Between 2008 and 2017, according to Australian Bureau of Statistics figures,...
Au pairs, farm hands and circus workers make list of lowest paid
Are au pairs being ripped off more than other Australia workers? Probably, but not by much – and sometimes they come out ahead....