Real classroom science
Thousands of budding scientists in high school classrooms across Australia could help solve real world problems, while also motivate them to embrace science.
Professor David McKinnon, Director of the Edith Cowan Institute for Education Research,...
Young drivers under the lens: could recording driver behaviour reduce road trauma?
Mark Stevenson, Professor of Urban Transport and Public Health at the Melbourne School of Design, has been awarded an Australian Research Council Linkage Grant of $530,000 to study young drivers aged 18-25 across Victoria...
Making vaccination truly compulsory is well intentioned but ill conceived
Making mandatory vaccination truly compulsory may result in more harm than good, and drive hesitant parents to become anti-vaccination, warn Daniel Salmon, Raina MacIntyre and Saad Omer.
The United States, Australia, and approximately half of European...
Confidence keeps new parents strong
Just months after her daughter Jayne was born, Amelia was a sleep-deprived zombie. Breastfeeding was a nightmare, the baby kept her awake most of the night – and Amelia spiralled into postnatal depression.
It’s a...
Drinking at conception boosts diabetes risk for baby
Babies conceived by women who drink alcohol around the time of conception face dramatically increased risks of type 2 diabetes and obesity in early middle age, a University of Queensland study has found.
The discovery...
High-fat maternal diet changes newborn heart ‘tastebuds’
Baby rats whose mothers were fed a high-fat diet had larger than normal hearts with fewer taste receptors for bitter flavours, according to new UNSW research.
The study, led by the UNSW Head of Pharmacology...
Australia beating UK in baby food battle
Aussie children are getting a better start than their UK cousins, with Australian first research finding that the majority of baby and toddler foods sold at our supermarkets are of a high nutritional quality.
Senior...
Mum’s weight during first pregnancy may impact second child
A woman's weight during her first pregnancy can affect how her second baby fares, Saint Louis University research finds.
Physicians have long recognized complications can occur when a mother is not at a healthy weight...
Autism and ADHD run high in children of chemically intolerant mothers
A new study from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio found that mothers with chemical intolerances are two to three times more likely than other women to have a child...
Spelling Bee not to be taken seriously
The Great Australian Spelling Bee does not translate to real world learning and should not be taken seriously by parents or teachers, according to a Charles Sturt University (CSU) spelling expert.
Mrs Tessa Daffern is...
