University of Melbourne provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. Thanks for your lovely question. Very smart people have been wondering about this very question for thousands of ...

Q Often when I step outside from a dark room into the sunlight, I sneeze. Why does this happen? A My colleague, Dr. Robert Shmerling, looked into this question once. I learned from him that there are ...

Have you ever heard someone say that your heart stops for a moment every time you sneeze? Whew, if that were the case, allergy season might be a tad bit scarier, and you'd probably now have a lot of ...