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For decades, preventing pregnancy has largely been considered women’s responsibility. Now, as new male contraceptives edge closer to reality, Professor Lisa Wynn explores why it took so long, and whether the balance could finally be changing.
The high-stakes nature of Year 12 exams can bring out sudden anxiety in the best of students. We are clinical psychologists who research academic stress. Here’s what can help.
If you’ve ever been stung by a honeybee, you might know they have a special trick: they insert the stinger into your skin and leave it behind. Macquarie University researchers filmed the first-ever video of a detached bee stinger pumping venom.
When Robert started bringing his 14-year-old Ragdoll, Pixie, to Macquarie University, he expected a few surprised faces. Instead, she quickly became a much-loved fixture on campus - joining him in classes, meeting students and making friends wherever she goes.
Health and Medicine
A project has revealed how our eyes, head movements and even our hand gestures change when conversation becomes difficult, with findings that could ultimately help hearing devices respond to what their users need.
A pioneering Macquarie University program helping children and teenagers manage anxiety is celebrating more than three decades of impact, with its research now influencing mental health support for young people around the world.
A world-first facility to advance research into motor neurone disease (MND) is now operating at Macquarie University thanks to A$2 million in funding from FightMND and a partnership with Thermo Fisher Scientific.
The fight against some of the most devastating brain diseases is entering a vital new phase with the launch of an Australian-first Brain Institute and Clinic at Macquarie University.
Explainers
New research into screen use in Australian classrooms has revealed an uncomfortable truth for the school screen-time debate: Parents were recommending more hours of device use for their children than limits set by teachers.
Clinical psychologist, sleep researcher and founder of Circa Sleep, Dr Amelia Scott, is questioning whether our obsession with optimising and tracking sleep is actually helping us rest.
Science and Technology
Respiratory specialists at Macquarie University Hospital are using robotic bronchoscopy – precision technology-assisted navigation through the airways of the lung – in new ways to help deliver highly targeted lung cancer treatment, as part of a broader program of innovation backed by a new dedicated research laboratory.
DNA analysis supported by citizen science highlights reduced gene flow and threats to genetic diversity among Brolgas in southeastern Australia.
What happens to your old technology when you throw it away? Macquarie alumna and Konica Minolta employee, Angelique Porta is helping the University community find out – and rethink what we do with our unwanted technology through a new e-waste initiative on campus.
What started as a passion for numbers has grown into something much bigger for Macquarie University student Sarah Haidar. Her journey has taken her from challenging assumptions about women in maths to carving out a space for herself, and others, to do the same.
Arts and Society
There’s no stopping this mother, daughter duo. One is a well-known author, speaker and commentator in the media. The other is a scholar who helped shape her daughter’s resilience and staunch views on ageism, feminism and a champion for mature age students. Here, Jane and Kate Caro fire up the age-old debate on ageism.
Macquarie archaeology student Leonie van den Berg is investigating an ancient Egyptian pottery deposit at Dra Abu el-Naga, exploring what it can reveal about funerary rituals, cultic practices and the people who lived thousands of years ago.
Can you still love an artist’s work when you disagree with their beliefs or behaviour? A Macquarie University philosopher explains why what we do matters more than how we feel.
Forget GDP, the real global recession is in PDA. Historian of emotions Professor Katie Barclay confirms Gen Z are living through a “kissing recession” several centuries in the making.
Business and The Economy
Retailers have every reason to be interested in AI, but there is a catch for customers.
China is reaping the benefits of electric vehicles. But Australia’s reliance on diesel leaves it exposed, writes energy market expert Dr Lurion De Mello.
US technology companies’ investments in artificial intelligence in Southeast Asia risk reproducing existing patterns of technological dependency, writes Dr Govand Azeez.
How can we make the energy transition more equitable? Ask Dr Marjan Nazifi.