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Christopher Packham

Christopher Packham

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Chris has written and edited for newspapers and alt newsweeklies since 2003, including the Kansas City Star, The Pitch and the Village Voice. He has been copyediting and occasionally writing for Science X since 2013. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his spouse and two dogs.

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.

Oct 17, 2022
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."

Oct 17, 2022
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.

Oct 17, 2022
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.

Oct 17, 2022
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." ...

Oct 17, 2022
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 ...

Oct 17, 2022
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.

Oct 17, 2022
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.

Oct 6, 2022
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 ...

Oct 3, 2022
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.

Oct 2, 2022
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 ...

Oct 1, 2022
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.

Oct 1, 2022
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?

Sep 30, 2022
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 ...

Sep 29, 2022
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.

Sep 29, 2022