Care by Design: How Environments Do the Work for Us

Care by Design: How Environments Do the Work for Us

How environments shape behaviour in hospitals and aged care Hospitals are designed for safety. Aged care is designed for care. At least, that’s the intention. But if you look closely, both are also behavioural systems. They shape how people move, how they interact,...
Ozempic and the Gila Monster: How a Venomous Lizard Changed Medicine

Ozempic and the Gila Monster: How a Venomous Lizard Changed Medicine

In the arid borderlands where Arizona meets Mexico, a peculiar reptile has been quietly rewriting medical history. The Gila monster—with its orange-black beaded skin and lumbering gait—seems more like a relic from prehistory than a vanguard of pharmaceutical...
Luminous Bodies: The Remarkable Science of Human Bioluminescence

Luminous Bodies: The Remarkable Science of Human Bioluminescence

In the soft boundary where hard science dissolves into wonder, there exists a fact so quietly astonishing that it seems plucked from science fiction: human bodies emit light. Not as metaphor, not as spiritual allegory, but as measurable physical phenomenon. We are,...