We all know the pain of a blaring alarm clock after a late night, but sleep deprivation does more than just bring our mood down. This is what happens when you consistently short change yourself of a good night's rest.

Elle Macpherson has shared her life lessons in a new memoir, but revelations about her breast cancer treatment have come under fire from experts.

There are as many stereotypes about boarding schools as there are pop culture references. But who really goes to Australian boarding schools? It might not be who you think.

Sugar is a relatively new addition to our diet. Like many of the world's resources, the discovery and widespread uptake of sugar led to the exploitation of millions of people.

Attachment theory is a foundation of modern psychology — a framework for understanding human relationships and how we connect other people. But has social media taken this concept too far?

As Australia prepares for the government to finalise its gambling advertising restrictions, we take a look at what's happened in a nation where bans have already been implemented. Spoiler: Not everything went to plan.

For more than 1000 years, India was a trading powerhouse across the globe — not only of spices, wild animals and gemstones, but also of language, philosophy, religion, mathematics and astronomy. So, why isn't this history well known, and when India's dominance begin to wane?

The protests that engulfed Bangladesh last month — resulting in the removal of the Sheikh Hasina government — were led by students and sparked by the reintroduction of a civil service quota system. But there's more to the story.

The American playwright Suzan-Lori Parks started writing plays on the advice of a very famous mentor: the celebrated writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin. Now, Parks' Pulitzer Prize-winning play is on stage in Australia for the first time.

Every species has different traits that are 'attractive' — DIY skills making a bower, vibrating sexy fruit fly songs, puffing up a wattle, or just having really massive moose … antlers. Is this innate attraction like falling in love or is it more like meeting a (really hot) investment advisor?