Explainer: how does the immune system work?
Steven Maltby, University of Newcastle and Vicki Maltby, University of Newcastle
The immune system is critical for protecting against illness-causing organisms, such as viruses, bacteria...
Mindfulness meditation offers help with the travails of chronic illness
Monika Merkes, La Trobe University
Drugs to relieve pain for people with chronic diseases are expensive and can have harmful side effects. But there are...
Crying out for a change in mood on emotional disorders and anxiety
Ron Rapee
A few weeks ago, my children came home from school to announce they were raising money for World Vision’s 40-hour famine.
Naturally, I applauded...
‘I feel your pain’: measuring the unmeasurable
Michael Vagg, Barwon Health
There may be many pitfalls in an argument which equates sensation in humans with nervous discharges from frogs skin. – Edgar...
We are finally learning the Perth Canyon’s deep-sea secrets
Charitha Pattiaratchi, University of Western Australia and Malcolm McCulloch, University of Western Australia
After going unexplored for centuries, one of Australia’s biggest marine features is...
Dancing seal is first non-human mammal to keep a beat
Sunanda Creagh, The Conversation
Ronan the sea lion was able to keep a musical beat, even when hearing a song for the first time.
American Psychological...
How a week of camping resets the body clock
Hannah Valmadre, The Conversation
One week of camping outdoors and eschewing all man-made light is enough to reset a person’s body clock to its natural...
Acting out the nightmares of post-traumatic stress disorder
Andrea Phelps, University of Melbourne
You can run a marathon, fly over foreign lands, fight to the death with a two-headed dragon … all while...
