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Your social media feed is changing democracy

Being creative can make you more popular at work

We’re closer to ‘engineering’ blood vessels

A new diamond voltage imaging microscope will give us more insight into the neural micro-circuitry that runs our brains: the device uses a diamond-based sensor that converts voltage signals at its surface directly into optical signals – this means we can see electrical activity as it happens

Poetry as a Surveillance Survival Guide

Getting a Covid jab is safer than taking aspirin

Ever wonder what your dog is thinking?

Our psychological bias against people and things we consider ugly is tied up in a built-in human response that’s designed to alert us to objects that may contain potentially harmful diseases

How do you crack the code to a lost ancient script?

New Research finds that people are more likely to say something they regret when they’re not relaxed

Many women are abused during childbirth - New research shows that more than a third of women in four low and middle-income countries are being mistreated when giving birth in health facilities

New research (published in Cell Host and Microbe journal) is discovering how small molecules can be used to ‘open up’ the HIV virus – allowing the immune system to target and destroy it.

A new brain scanning technique reveals how changes in white and grey matter seen in schizophrenia are actually linked

Women and the slowing global population

Predicting landslide boundaries two weeks before they happen

Strains of bacteria have developed increased tolerance to the alcohols in hand sanitizers, which requires hospitals to rethink how they protect patients from drug-resistant bacteria.

Researchers have uncovered a whole new class of drug compounds with the potential to completely stop the proliferation of specific cancers like leukaemia and liver cancer…

CEO salaries are often highlighted as an example of widening income inequality, but that singular focus misses the other equally important ways big business fails to contribute to a fairer society

Physicists have successfully run the largest quantum computing simulation to date

The right leadership style is key to fostering self-motivated employees and workplace well-being

Farmed salmon are deaf, and now we know why -- (link to Journal of Experimental Biology in story)

In a world first, Melbourne scientists have discovered how the most important cancer-preventing gene, called p53, stops the development of lymphoma – and potentially other types of cancer

New research on the long-term effects of removing tonsils and adenoids in childhood finds that the operations are associated with increased respiratory, infectious, and allergic diseases

New research has discovered why some people aren't immune to the flu even after being vaccinated

Raw chicken linked to paralysis in dogs

The probiotic Lactobacillus reuteri may help treat colicky breastfed babies less than 3 months old

The simple process of re-identifying patients in public health records

More sleep, less bad behaviour - New research finds adequate sleep may minimise the impact of many childhood behaviour problems

Researchers at the University of Melbourne have used mathematical modelling to successfully calculate how badly a blockage is impeding the flow of blood in humans

In a breakthrough hydrodynamics, researchers have demonstrated the seemingly impossible: a ball that sinks in water with almost zero drag (and proving the 18th century d’Alembert’s Paradox)

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