Sleep
Health & Medicine
Good sleep is key to pre-teen mental health
Improving sleep could be one way to help protect and support a young adolescent’s mental health and wellbeing – with long-lasting benefits
Health & Medicine
Understanding posttraumatic nightmares
Research into the effectiveness of “rescripting” dreams suggests that posttraumatic nightmares are actually a range of different phenomena, opening up the possibility of targeted treatments
Health & Medicine
More sleep, less bad behaviour
New research finds adequate sleep may minimise the impact of many childhood behaviour problems
Business & Economics
How post-boom Australia is faring
The largest ongoing record of Australian life, the annual HILDA survey, shows the young are losing out to the old and the wealth pie is on the verge of shrinking
Sciences & Technology
What animals can tell us about sleeping
Birds do it and bees do it, but exactly why we sleep is still a relative unknown. Is it time to give the science a wake-up call?
Health & Medicine
Go Figure
Why we all get the daylight savings ‘hangover’
Our circadian rhythms refuse to be ruled by daylight savings, which is why things may still feel off-kilter a week after the switch