John Elder
Ignore the on-again, off-again advice: Wear a face mask when out and about
Geez, what a mystery: those people infected with COVID-19 at the footy? They weren’t sitting together. They didn’t know one another. And...
COVID-19 origin: ‘It looks like this virus was designed to infect humans’
In recent weeks, there has been a radical shift in sober thinking about where the SARS-CoV-2 virus, better known as COVID 19,...
Feeling smarter? How the coronavirus pandemic ‘changed’ your personality
We’ve heard a lot about the profound impact COVID-19 and social distancing measures have had on mental health in Australia, including that...
Mix and match: Having two different vaccines may give you better immunity
Most Australians will receive either the Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccine, even despite changing advice following rare blood-clotting side effects. Now a new...
April 2022: When Australia will most likely be fully vaccinated, maybe
Australians won’t be fully vaccinated until April next year, according to projections made by epidemiologist Catherine Bennett. And that’s only if the...
First the love song, then the species: How an Australian bird might be lost
The fate of Australia’s critically endangered regent honeyeater might hinge on how many young birds learn the specie’s particular love song –...
COVID vaccine rollout ‘hysteria’: Take a chill pill, Australia
Oh no. Europe is about to curb exports of the AstraZeneca vaccine to the rest of the world for six weeks –...
They come in good times: The irony of mouse plagues
At the beginning of autumn every year, in grain country, people living in country towns expect mice to move into their homes....
Could we be hatched, not born? Mice are being grown in mechanical ‘wombs’
Scientists have managed to grow the embryo of a mammal in a mechanical uterus outside of the womb for the first time....
Vaccine rollout on ‘training wheels’ and potentially compromised by greed
Any confusion about Australia’s vaccine rollout can be attributed to its infancy, our leading medical body says, as the process is still...