Health
How Your Memory Works — and Why Forgetting Is Totally OK [TED Talk Video]
30 November
Have you ever misplaced something you were just holding? Completely blanked on a famous actor’s name? Walked into a room and immediately forgot why? Neuroscientist Lisa Genova digs into two types of memory failures we regularly experience...[Read More]
What You Can Do to Prevent Alzheimer’s [TED Talk Video]
16 November
Alzheimer’s doesn’t have to be your brain’s destiny, says neuroscientist and author of “Still Alice,” Lisa Genova. She shares the latest science investigating the disease — and some promising research on...[Read More]
Nasal vaccines could ‘change’ pandemic
16 November
A nasally delivered COVID-19 vaccine developed in Australia is promising much better protection against the virus. Testing of the new nasal spray vaccine resulted in zero COVID transmission among mice, researchers from Sydney University and the...[Read More]
Aust life expectancy up despite COVID
9 November
Australians are living longer despite the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused life expectancy to drop in many of the world’s richest nations. Australian Bureau of Statistics figures released on Tuesday showed a girl born in 2021 could expect to...[Read More]
Workers need right to switch off: report
19 October
Employees should have the right to “disconnect” from work and not be contacted by bosses after knock-off time, a parliamentary committee recommends. The Senate committee on work and care released its interim report on Tuesday, which...[Read More]
Living costs more stressful than pandemic
12 October
Cost of living pressures have overtaken the pandemic as Australians’ greatest source of worry, according to a survey released on World Mental Health Day. Mental health charity Beyond Blue surveyed 1500 people and found inflation, rising...[Read More]
Serious fear: Have you got nomophobia?
14 September
Many people feel a little anxious if they forget their phone but some suffer from nomophobia – “no mobile phone phobia” – a serious fear of being disconnected. Macquarie University psychologist Wayne Warburton says...[Read More]
Booster campaign in long war against COVID
7 September
With COVID-19 restrictions relaxing everywhere from airports to footy stadiums, millions of Australians are being exposed to the virus including almost three in 10 adults yet to have a booster shot. National cabinet has agreed that from Friday there...[Read More]
One big ‘key’ to solving loneliness crisis
31 August
Susan McDonald enjoyed an illustrious career cooking for the likes of Queen Elizabeth and Julia Gillard. But she gets her greatest satisfaction delivering food to vulnerable members of her community while volunteering with Meals on Wheels. Her...[Read More]
Global research centre for ‘next pandemic’
31 August
A new global centre will be set up in Australia to develop a drug breakthrough equivalent to mRNA vaccine technology for the next pandemic. Canadian and New Zealand businessman Geoffrey Cumming, who lives in Melbourne, is donating $250 million to...[Read More]