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Changes around puberty and pregnancy can affect the function of genes influencing hair shape. And chemotherapy can cause hair to regrow in a different shape for the first few cycles of hair regrowth.
Most Australians think of scorpions as exotic desert animals, but they are fairly widespread across the continent. Still, next to nothing is known about most local scorpion species.
The tournament has proven to be very resilient throughout its history, but its greatest challenges may lie ahead.
Raising children with behavioural, developmental or learning difficulties can also make parenting more challenging. So how can parent training help?
Modular building techniques offer sustainable, affordable and adaptable solutions for a rapidly changing world.
In her prose and her poetry, Sara M. Saleh renders unique the ways people resist, transcend, adapt, make the best of things, compromise, endure, and lose hope and faith.
Another year, another COVID wave. Here’s what we know about what the virus is doing around the country.
While running it briefly and intermittently at a very low temperature may feel thrifty, it will not be the most energy efficient choice. Here’s what to do instead.
The impacts of record heat on the global water cycle were severe and wide-ranging – and the trend will continue in 2024.
Queen Margrethe II’s abdication ceremony is scheduled for this Sunday, the 52nd anniversary of her accession to the throne.
Most people stop taking ADHD medication within two years of starting it. The hope is that they’ve developed successful strategies to manage the condition in that time.
Mind wandering is often confused with daydreaming, but they are not the same thing.
Christopher Lasch’s sharp-tonged a critique of American society was a product of its time, but has things to say about the present.
What happened to the three-metre tall apes that once lived alongside orangutans? A new study suggests they were too slow to adapt to a changing world.
Today, hearings will begin in the International Court of Justice, where South Africa is accusing Israel of genocide in Palestine. How will the proceedings work, and what does it mean for the war?
The shift from family migration towards skilled migrants changed settlement patterns in the first two decades of this century. But these skilled migrants still get paid less than non-migrants.
Pressure for greater transparency by food producers and retailers about costs is increasing as rising grocery prices hit the hip pocket.
TikTok dental tips, from making your own tooth whitening paste through to using ‘gap’ bands to fix spaces between your teeth, should be treated with caution.
For many families, there is a daily battle around getting kids off their screens and back into real life.
A heatwave in 2022 redefined scientific expectations of the Antarctic climate. Now the global community must prepare for what a warmer world may bring.
Glynis Johns, most famous for her role as the suffragette mother Mrs Winifred Banks in Disney’s Mary Poppins (1964), passed away last week at the age of 100.
As digital media took off in the 2010s, few believed magazines could survive. While the industry isn’t what is once was, magazines are still very much alive, but why?
The five international models we examined would have prevented excessive rent increases and helped many renters stay in their homes.
We tend to just think of viruses in terms of their damaging impacts on human health and lives. But viruses can also be used to benefit human health, agriculture and the environment.