Australian Football League. Credit: Deirdre/Flickr By Steve Ellen, Monash University It’s Grand Final season – it might seem that nothing else matters about now. Writing about the psychology of…

Neonicotinoid pesticides were invented because there was concern that they could have an effect on bees. Colony collapses have happened all throughout recorded history, of course, but in an immediate…

The first animal model for ALS dementia, a form of ALS that also damages the brain, has been developed. This advance will allow researchers to directly see the brains of living mice, under anesthesia…

Within the first 5 years after the birth of a child, women are considered at an increased risk of developing metastatic breast cancer. Why that happens has been considered a puzzle but the fact…

Stroke is one of the leading causes of death worldwide and while there are obvious environmental factors such as diet, exercise and behavior, many lines of evidence suggest that the risk of stroke is…

In the developed world, people are having fewer children and living longer and that has led to a population that is older than in the past. On average, life expectancy in developed countries has…

Ovarian cancer is the most deadly gynecological kind, it claims the lives of more than 50% of women who are diagnosed Ovarian cancer is often diagnosed late and develops a resistance to chemotherapy…

Retinoblastoma is a childhood retinal tumor usually affecting children ages one to two and the most common malignant tumor of the eye in children. Left untreated, retinoblastoma can be fatal or…

'To be, or not to be' male or female? Maxine Peake plays Hamlet. Credit: Jonathan Keenan/Royal Exchange Theatre By Mareile Pfannebecker, University of Manchester The ghost, in this autumn’s Royal…

The public supports most traffic safety laws. They routinely defy cell phone laws, believing that they should be pulled over for driving recklessly, not for having a cell phone, and they defy speed…