Articles by The Conversation
A new year might mean new viral threats.
Old viruses are constantly evolving. A warming and increasingly populated planet puts humans in contact with more and different viruses. And increased mobili�...
We spend a third of our lives asleep. And a quarter of our time asleep is spent dreaming. So, for the average person alive in 2022, with a life expectancy of around 73, that clocks in at just over si�...
Recent surveys estimate more than 6.7 million Australians almost half of all workers, and the majority in Sydney, Melbourne, and Canberra work from home at least some of the time in paid or unpaid ro�...
Ever been about to pour rancid milk down the sink and thought"Hmm, maybe I shouldn't"? What about the tomato passata that's gone off? Or the water you washed the paint in? Or that pungent oil from a �...
A large Swedish study reported a lower risk of dementia among middle-aged and older adults who consumed higher amounts of full-fat cheese and cream. The findings may sound like welcome news but they �...
There's an unwritten rule in publishing, or so I've been told: Don't write about COVID. Our collective attention span has been saturated by those endless months holed up in attics and cramped corners�...
When you look at clouds, tree bark, or the front of a car, do you sometimes see a face staring back at you? That's "face pareidolia" and it is a perfectly normal illusion where our brains spot faces �...
When we lose weight, we don't just lose body fat we lose muscle, too.
This can be a problem for many reasons, because skeletal muscle is far more than the tissue that helps us move. It plays a cruci�...
Positive psychology forms the backbone of wellbeing programmes around the world. Many people aiming to improve their mental health and live a good life are told to follow a programme of activities th�...
Stuck in front of our screens all day, we often ignore our senses beyond sound and vision. And yet they are always at work. When we're more alert, we feel the rough and smooth surfaces of objects, th�...
