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Erin Schuman Receives Kavli Prize 2026
‘Lab-on-a-drone’ tests remote farm waterways for nitrate levels
Reminiscing may ease grief when caring for people with dementia
Scientists make Parkinson’s drug from plastic in world first
Toxic dust from California’s shrinking Salton Sea is harming children’s lung growth – our study tracked the impact in 700 kids
Rudeness May Be Rewarded – As Response To Rudeness
Half Of Social Science Results Cannot Be Replicated
Professor Martin Widschwendter to lead the Daffodil Centre into a new era of precision cancer prevention 
Distant past may expose companies to claims of hypocrisy
La Trobe PhD Student Receives Fulbright Honour
Are mental health apps like doctors, yogis, drugs or supplements?
‘Probably’ doesn’t mean the same thing to your AI as it does to you
Study Finds Online Racism Associated With Black Young Adults Seeking Mental Health Support
Medicare is experimenting with having AI review claims – a cost-saving measure that could risk denying needed care
Confused by the new dietary guidelines? Focus on these simple, evidence-based shifts to lower your chronic disease risk
How well-meaning allies increase stress for marginalized people
How does Narcan work? Mapping how it reverses opioid overdose can provide a molecular blueprint for more effective drugs
Engineers Develop Solid Lubricant To Replace Toxic Materials In Farming
Pain Tolerance Increases During Social Interaction In VR
Fresh fossil finds in Africa shed light on the era before Earth’s largest mass extinction
Physicists take step toward a holy grail for electron spins
Your brain learns from rejection − here’s how it becomes your compass for connection
How your genes interact with your environment changes your disease risk − new research counts the ways
Schools and communities can help children bounce back after distressing disasters like the LA wildfires
Extreme heat silently accelerates aging on a molecular level − new research
Intense heat changes our biology and can make us age significantly faster: study
Earth’s inner core is less solid than previously thought
Rural Americans don’t live as long as those in cities − new research
Knowing less about AI makes people more open to having it in their lives – new research
How Britain got its first internet connection – by the late pioneer who created the first password on the internet
Adults grow new brain cells – and these neurons are key to learning by listening
Taxpayers spend 22% more per patient to support Medicare Advantage – the private alternative to Medicare that promised to cost less
Blurry, morphing and surreal – a new AI aesthetic is emerging in film
New Esri Book Explores How Spatial Data Science Helps Users Understand Data and Make Predictions
Medicare vs. Medicare Advantage: sales pitches are often from biased sources, the choices can be overwhelming and impartial help is not equally…
Got an unaffordable or incorrect medical bill? Calling your hospital billing office will usually get you a discount
Gus Walz’s unbridled emotion on the DNC stage opens the door to more understanding of neurodiversity
Griffith University Athletes Shine In Paris
‘Fuel to the fire’: repeated climate-sceptic claims enough to nudge even the strongest of climate change endorsers
Moms think more about household chores − and this cognitive burden hurts their mental health
Study confirms rotation of Earth’s inner core has slowed
Female AI ‘teammate’ engenders more participation from women
High-tech Roo Collars Aim To Prevent Road Accidents
Iron fuels immune cells – and it could make asthma worse
‘Noise’ in the machine: Human differences in judgment lead to problems for AI
Researchers create AI model to understand how brain activity relates to illness
Granting legal ‘personhood’ to nature is a growing movement – can it stem biodiversity loss?
Cancer-predisposition variants associated with adverse outcomes in rhabdomyosarcoma