Olivier Piguet knew something was wrong with his cousin Jacques. During a phone conversation, Olivier’s mother mentioned that Jacques, then a successful and well-liked optometrist in his local Swiss town, was acting peculiar. Suddenly rude to customers and falling out ...

Ever tried to play chasey in a skirt? The thing flaps and billows like a clumsy tornado about your knees. If you’re serious about not getting tagged, nine times out of 10, undergarments will be exposed. Pride will be lost. ...

If you’re an Australian man, you’re better placed than any other male group in the world to reach a ripe old age. This is according to new research by ANU. Pulling data from 15 countries with high-life expectancies across Europe, ...

A child who once struggled with literacy now reads to her younger brother. Music lifts the spirits of a woman living with dementia. The daughter of a woman who survived cervical cancer knows she will never inheret the disease. These ...

Our two-million-year-old ancestors continually breastfed infants from birth until they were about one year old, an analysis of teeth has revealed. Led by Southern Cross University and Monash University, the international team behind the study looked at teeth from Australopithecus ...

Robust regulatory requirements are essential to research, particularly in the field of health and medicine. The approvals procedure acts as a check against misconduct and risk, minimising harm to the participants and organisations involved. Yet in Australia, many researchers believe ...

Mei Krishnasamy has a strong Cardiff accent that belies her many years in Melbourne. The Welsh native has been living in Australia on and off since the early 2000s, and since 2016 has been the inaugural chair of cancer nursing ...

Universities should give more consideration to female academics caring for children, a new paper has argued. One way they could be doing this is by offering financial aid to cover childcare costs for those attending conferences. Another recommendation was that institutions ...

Australia’s universities are celebrating their standing against an international benchmark but not all are happy with the overarching excellence in research for Australia (ERA) reports. Published by the Australian Research Council (ARC), the State of Australian University Research 2018–19: ERA ...

A new study has revealed that drinking water can actually contribute to muscle cramps, as opposed to preventing them, as previously thought. The new research from Edith Cowan University’s School of Medical and Health Science proves that rather than being ...