Push for sustainable food reforms
While food systems account for up to 30% of total global greenhouse gas emissions, Vietnam is holding high-level talks aimed at creating more sustainable farming systems […]
Fossils and fires: insights into early modern human activity in the jungles of Southeast Asia
Studying microscopic layers of dirt dug from the Tam Pà Ling cave site in northeastern Laos has provided a team of Flinders University archaeologists and their […]
Smart homes help aged care
The boom in ageing around the world, including China where traditional family-based care is common, is underpinning a tech revolution in elder care, say Flinders University […]
Women carry burden of aged care
Women make up more than 60% of the older adult population in the Asia-Pacific, where the challenges associated with one of the fastest ageing population clusters […]
A rare glimpse of our first ancestors in mainland Southeast Asia
What connects a fossil found in a cave in northern Laos with stone tools made in north Australia? The answer is, we do. When our early […]
English at new heights throughout Asia
An estimated 280 million people in India, as well as 280 million in China, regularly speak English. If ASEAN and other Asian countries are included, the […]
Native bees’ exotic origins reveal cross-pollination
Ancestors of a distinctive pollinating bee found across Australia probably originated in tropical Asian countries, islands in the south-west Pacific or greater Oceania region, ecology researchers […]
Tropical snake uses its head to ‘breathe’
Humans use a snorkel and fish have gills. Now researchers have found a sea snake which uses a complex system of blood vessels in its head […]
Science can help 15 million people avoid mercury poisoning
Mercury poisoning through artisanal and small-scale gold mining is increasing – with critical health dangers affecting more than 15 million people a year. Award-winning South Australian […]