The fight against diabetes in Malaysia and Southeast Asia requires a multifaceted approach that addresses dietary habits, physical activity, and socio-economic factors.
For women, there’s no option of distinguishing or opting out – no woman ever gets to say, “Not me”. We’re all faced daily with the weight of relentless misogyny that infects every part of our world.
These innocent insects have done little to deserve our scorn. In fact, they have surprisingly complex minds, and can play important ecological roles.
The surprising frequency of bees on coins through history shows the enduring importance to human societies of our buzzing companions.
A short Australian documentary is a refreshing celebration of “the ordinary” in the prevailing media narrative regarding transgender individuals in our society.
Bee farmers discard propolis, and harvest only the honey from hives for commercial purposes, wasting its potent medicinal value. New research is changing that.
The beauty of language isn’t always in the words a phrase contains, but in the words it doesn’t.
As you make your yuletide preparations, do you wonder where some of the season’s strange words come from? Our linguistic experts have the answers.
New research shows that 91.1% of Earth scientists agree on human-caused global warming, while climate scientists are now in 98.7% agreement.
“The submission date was looming, and I had been staunchly ignoring the bubbling magma of terror that was slowly rising within me the past few months.”
We often think of archaeology as Western science, but First Peoples have been interpreting their ancestral landscapes for generations.
An initiative in First Nations communities in Australia's far north flipped the merchandising model, and found stores could successfully sell more nutritious food without losing money.
For introverted students, educators and professionals who enjoy routine, predictability and quiet reflection, being confined to their homes has given them a chance to thrive.
Dr Harry Al-Wassiti is now part of a Monash research team striving to find a COVID-19 vaccine, but his path has been far from easy.
COVID-19 has highlighted the cruise sector's lack of scrutiny, and questions remain whether it can regain the trust of the travelling public.
Bees are the most important pollinator of food crops, and the honey they produce is the only insect-derived natural product with industrial, nutritional and therapeutic values.
A new advertising campaign for pads that features blood marks a moment when attitudes towards menstruation are changing.
... about those awfully terrific words we use to take language to extremes.
Nostalgia plays a leading role in determining what – and how much – we eat over the festive season.
Many budding entrepreneurs spend years trying to find their one big idea. For lawyer Sarah Holloway, a recreational love of matcha came first; a thriving business, second.
The US-China stand-off gives Australia the unprecedented chance to expand its economic footprint.
Whether it’s ‘having a naughty’ or suffering from ‘pash rash’, Australians are a descriptive lot when it comes to the act of love.
The frank but sweet discussion of childbirth in the BBC's Call the Midwife has much in common with fairy tales.
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