John Elder
Male contraception: Seriously, it’s time to get a wriggle on
One of the longstanding and inconveniently reasonable complaints from women is that they tend to shoulder the responsibility of contraception – mainly...
Wiggly line out, straight line home: New robot navigates like an ant
French researchers have built a six-legged robot with a navigation system modelled on that of a clever desert ant – and it...
Memory loss from ageing and disease can be reversed, studies suggest
Two separate studies have for the first time shown promise that memory loss can be reversed. The first study focused on people...
President Puppet: When Sean Hannity calls the tune, Trump dances
Has Donald Trump proved himself to be the glove puppet of America’s biggest loudmouth media star, Sean Hannity? There is a growing...
Exercise performance, not your age, is the best guide to how long you’re going to live
Performance on a treadmill stress test, used to calculate your “physiological” age, is a better predictor of longevity than your actual chronological...
World’s first sparrow: the rise of the seed-eaters, tree perchers
Researchers have discovered the earliest version of the sparrow from 52 million years ago – in a rare find of a complete...
For love or drama: Whose interests the Married At First Sight experts are really looking out for
Six series of Channel Nine’s Married At First Sight – and so far the experts’ success rate, in terms of creating a...
The sixth sense explained: How the brain fools you into feeling things you haven’t seen
Researchers have found a short cut in the brain that allows some blind people to navigate the world and react to sudden...
Didn’t think things could get crazier? The Cold War nuclear arms race is back on
For the first time in nearly 50 years, the world is sliding toward the horror of there being no legally binding agreement...
Climate change predicted to cause more heart defects in babies
Researchers are predicting that the protracted heatwaves associated with climate change – and which are breaking records in the Australian summer in...