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Stress combined with calorie-dense ‘comfort’ food creates changes in the brain that drive more eating, boost cravings for sweet, highly palatable food, and lead to excess weight gain - mouse study

2 years ago newsroom.unsw.edu.au brain medicine

New DNA testing technology shows majority of Australian dingoes are pure dingoes, not hybrids, challenging the view that dingoes are in decline due to crossbreeding with domestic dogs

2 years ago newsroom.unsw.edu.au australia

Study finds dementia patients are more at risk of self-harming within the first 6 to 12 months of diagnosis

2 years ago newsroom.unsw.edu.au psychology

90.8% of teachers, around 50,000 full-time equivalent positions, cannot afford to live where they teach — in the Australian state of New South Wales

2 years ago newsroom.unsw.edu.au australia economic

More children and adolescents in mental health crisis since beginning of COVID-19 pandemic: study

2 years ago newsroom.unsw.edu.au covid health

Researchers have completely defined the cellular process known as methylation in yeast, confirming the essential role methylation plays in the creation of proteins.

2 years ago newsroom.unsw.edu.au biology

Scientists have developed an AI tool that shows promise in detecting Parkinson’s disease years before symptoms start appearing

2 years ago newsroom.unsw.edu.au ai chemistry disease

New treatment method designed to selectively target cancer cells shown to be effective at reducing leukaemia in cell cultures and mice

2 years ago newsroom.unsw.edu.au cancer

Global study of moss shows that topsoil mosses improve nutrient cycling, decomposition of organic matter and even control of pathogens harmful to other plants and people

2 years ago newsroom.unsw.edu.au environment

UNSW engineers show that jellybean quantum dots are possible in silicon - a solution that gives qubits more space so the necessary control wires can fit into quantum circuitry

2 years ago newsroom.unsw.edu.au engineering