Articles by Christopher Packham
Phys.org / Social media use and poor well-being feed into each other in a vicious cycle. Here are three ways to avoid getting stuck
We often hear about the negative impacts of social media on our well-being, but we don't usually think of it the other way round—whereby how we feel may impact how we use social media.
Phys.org / The Right Stuff: The new conservative dating app which has, unsurprisingly, failed to attract women
The Right Stuff is a new conservative dating app, recently launched in the US. Not yet available in Australia, the app was apparently created "for conservatives to connect in authentic and meaningful ways."
Phys.org / What is DLD: The most common disorder you have 'never heard of'?
Developmental language disorder or DLD is a lifelong disorder that affects language comprehension and expression. People with DLD find it more difficult to say what they mean and to understand others.
Phys.org / Australian women are more educated than men, but gender divides remain at work
The Bureau of Statistics has just released a new set of data from the 2021 census. The first set—released in June 2022—covered topics including age, sex, religion, unpaid work and country of birth.
Phys.org / Solar farms a 'blight on the landscape'? Research shows they can benefit wildlife
Liz Truss, the new U.K. prime minister, isn't a fan of solar farms. In 2014, when she was environment secretary, she described rows of panels arranged in a field to capture energy from the sun as a "blight on the landscape." ...
Medical Xpress / Legalizing cannabis led to increased cannabis poisonings in Canadian children, and it could get a whole lot worse
When Canada legalized non-medical cannabis four years ago, there was enormous uncertainty about how legalization could impact the health of Canadians. Since then, there has been increasing evidence that legalization has resulted ...
Phys.org / Nigeria floods: Expert insights into why they're so devastating and what to do about them
Nigeria is experiencing its worst flooding in over a decade. Over 1.4 million people have been displaced, 500 have been reported dead and thousands have been injured.
Phys.org / Just 20% of climate change studies are 'written by women'
Chioma Blaise Chikere is at the pinnacle of her career, as a professor of environmental microbiology and biotechnology at the University of Port Harcourt in Nigeria and director of the institution's Entrepreneurial Center.
Phys.org / Hubble spies a stately spiral galaxy
The stately sweeping spiral arms of the spiral galaxy NGC 5495 are revealed by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 in this image. NGC 5495, which lies around 300 million light-years from Earth in the ...
Phys.org / DNA cracks a century-old mystery about New Zealand's only extinct freshwater fish
In 1923, Te Rangi Hīroa (Sir Peter Buck) documented the last confirmed capture of a special fish—the upokororo or New Zealand grayling.
Phys.org / Glass beads in lunar soil reveal ancient asteroid bombardments on the moon and Earth
In 2020, China's Chang'e 5 mission sampled more than a kilogram of moon rock and soil and brought it back to Earth. The samples contain countless tiny beads of glass, created when asteroids hit the moon and splashed out droplets ...
Phys.org / A kung-fu kick led researchers to the world's oldest complete fish fossils. Here's what they found
Some of the world's most significant fossil discoveries have come from China. These include amazing feathered dinosaurs, the earliest modern mammals, and some of the oldest-known animals on Earth.
Medical Xpress / Attachment insecurity may be detrimental to the sexual well-being of long-term couples
What motivates people in long-term relationships to have sex and how do those motives affect the emotions they experience during sex?
Medical Xpress / A workout for cartilage implants
Whether arising from being felled on the soccer pitch or a seemingly harmless collision with a coffee table, a minor injury to the cartilage in your knee can have major consequences. In the worst case, the weak spot gives ...
Medical Xpress / Postbiotics could deliver immunity boost in your morning coffee
Your morning coffee could now give an added immunity boost, thanks to postbiotics and Griffith University and CSIRO researchers.