Climate change and the growing population in tropical and subtropical regions are accelerating the spread of mosquito-borne diseases, posing urgent public health challenges worldwide.
New research reveals how water containing the antidepressant Prozac affects male guppies, raising concerns about the health of aquatic ecosystems exposed to pharmaceutical pollution.
A study of purple-crowned fairy-wrens offers lessons for fire management along waterways in tropical savanna ecosystems.
A hands-on, fish-focused course offers an inspiring, authentic experience for high school students to see the scientific method from start to finish.
The Omicron strain is driving a rapid increase in China, and is quicker to transmit than other variants.
Infertility affects one in six couples in Australia, and as many as 70 million globally, but a simple new device aims to help both clinicians and prospective parents.
The hormones in the contraceptive pill can cause or exacerbate depression, and the type you use is an important factor.
Why aren’t we creating more art about this metamorphic life stage experienced by half the population?
About 10% of women stop having periods and reach the end of their fertile years much earlier than expected.
New research has found that using high-frequency ultrasound on sperm can boost their ability to swim and increase the chances of conception.
While most women who try for a baby will succeed, some won’t, and some will have fewer children than they had planned or hoped for.
Gender justice can’t be achieved by dealing with schoolboy masculinity in isolation of the wider schooling context from which it emerged.
Warnings of an end to human sperm production have been making headlines recently, now with the added threat of shrinking penises. But is it science or sensationalism?
Xanana Gusmao’s recent visit to a disgraced priest in Timor-Leste proves patriarchal forces are still very much in play.
The “Tasmanian tiger” was hunted to extinction based on its perceived size as a predator big enough to take sheep, but new research shows it weighed just 16.7kg.
Epidemiological models may be complex, but they must be treated with respect.
Until now we haven’t really talked about male age and its effect on the chances of pregnancy, but it's a crucial component in the fertility puzzle.
Knowing who you are is considered a fundamental right, but for some, the answer to ‘Who am I?’ lies in the complex emotional and legal matrix of donor conception.
Rather than traditional notation, contemporary composers are using technology to represent their musical ideas.
A new study reveals the lives of human ancestors who died millions of years ago.
It affects about one in seven women of childbearing age, yet there are no public health campaigns or celebrities raising it as an issue.
The genetic modification of twin baby girls before their birth has highlighted the ethical concerns raised by the use of gene-editing tool CRISPR in humans.
Voluntary assisted dying scaremongering is threatening to shut the door on important and much-needed access to VAD in other Australian states and territories.
Once seen as shapers of national identity, these days they're thought of as little more than disadvantaged. What changed?
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