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Not too much perfume, please
Male silkmoths sniff out mates with neurons tuned to detect just the right amount of scent. Forget elaborate dances, sweet serenades or complicated foreplay. And throw away the Spanish fly and...
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Do sperm have a use by date?
Eggs get old. This is old news and it’s why many an eyebrow is raised at the idea of a woman leaving childbearing to the post-35-years ‘danger zone’ of advanced maternal age. But ageing isn’t just...
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Why does alcohol make some people violent?
Alcohol-fuelled violence has been getting a lot of media attention here in Australia. Just yesterday, the state government of New South Wales passed legislation to try to address the problem. The new...
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Brains at risk: The curious link between strokes and Alzheimer’s disease
As we head into old age, our chances of suffering from a range of serious, life-altering conditions increases. Among the most concerning are those that affect our brain — conditions like stroke and...
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Brain of the beholder: The neuroscience of beauty
What is beauty? Is there an objective way of defining what it is that makes something beautiful, or is beauty — as the old cliché goes — in the eye of the beholder? These questions were, for centuries,...
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Learning during amnesia, probing our moral compass and brain apps for kids
Few areas of science are better equipped to delve into the mysteries of what it means to be human than neuroscience. With techniques such as fMRI illuminating the inner workings of our brain and...
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How microbes affect you from brain to bowel
From Cosmos Magazine, September 5-9, 2016. (Photo: Lactobacillus casei by AJC1 via Flickr) Not a day goes by without some new study proclaiming the importance of our microbes to our health. It’s hard...
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How acid warps your thoughts and feelings
From Cosmos Magazine, January 27, 2017 (Image: Mesaj via Flickr) Eight decades since Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann first cooked up the psychedelic drug lysergic acid diethylamide – LSD or “acid” – and...
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