John Elder
Heavy sleepers: The rise of weighted blankets, and how they’re helping anxiety sufferers
Hello kitty: New research suggests that cats can sometimes give a damn
There are few things more delicate than the affection of a cat. They play us humans hot and cold, all purrs and...
Half of all women believe there’s a vaccine for ovarian cancer. There isn’t
About 65 per cent of Australian women believe there is an early detection test for ovarian cancer. If only there was. Kel Pittman...
Washed your hands? Researchers find coronavirus can live on human skin for nine hours
The coronavirus can remain viable and dangerous on human skin for about nine hours – more than four times longer than a...
Neanderthal gene cluster linked to severe COVID-19 cases
Coronavirus patients who carry a peculiar gene cluster – inherited from our Neanderthal cousins – have three times the risk of ending...
Daylight Saving Time: Great for twilight strolling – and falling down dead
At 2am on Sunday, October 4, Australians will put their clocks forward by one hour, except for those in Queensland, Western Australia,...
True tales: Willie wagtails sing more intensely to the full moon
When colonial graziers first started adding sheep to the Australian landscape, they would have noticed that a busy black and white bird,...
Some energy drinks produce a carcinogenic agent and the makers don’t know it
Melbourne scientists have discovered that some energy drinks contain harmful levels of hydrogen peroxide, a substance many people associate with bleaching their...
Long-lost dinosaur bones: The strange story of the Scelidosaurus
‘Hundreds of thousands’ Chinese get experimental COVID vaccine
Tens of thousands … even hundreds of thousands of Chinese citizens have been given two Chinese COVID-19 vaccine candidates as part of...