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A new review shows bed rest is unlikely to help your back pain. The treatments that work can depend on how long your pain has lasted.
A new modelling study has sought to find out what impact recent foreign aid cuts – particularly from the US – will have on HIV. Here’s what the researchers found.
Robotic tools are too big for ‘keyhole’ brain surgery – but a new miniature technology using magnets could change all that.
Men wait an average of 21 years before telling anyone they were sexually abused. A new study looks at why men often don’t disclose sexual abuse and assaults.
Plants shape Earth’s atmosphere by moving carbon and water vapour. New research sheds light on how they learned to do it – and how it may change in future climates.
A project to map galaxies across the universe may have spied cracks in the foundation of our understanding of the cosmos.
The youngest child in the study was a 4-year-old, who said she liked being given a teddy bear at the hospital.
The SKA-Low radio telescope in Western Australia is slowly coming online. It will probe the shape of the universe and study cosmic mysteries.
Research reveals most of the sites the Coalition has earmarked for nuclear power plants would be suitable for pumped hydropower plants.
Is our lifespan primarily dictated by our genetics, or do our behaviour and environment play the more important role?
Chinese is one of the world’s oldest languages and spoken by over one billion people. Its pronoun system may be on the cusp of significant change.
A bird might look and act outwardly healthy – but on the inside, ingested plastics are slowly wreaking havoc.
The mental health of trans, nonbinary and gender-diverse Australians is suffering and getting worse.
The trans and non-binary community may be increasingly visible in New Zealand, but their economic outcomes are still very different to the wider population.
“Farming” behaviour is very unusual in the non-human world. As lyrebirds forage, they cultivate the soil and shore up their own food sources.
Australians tend to eat too much junk food and not enough fruit and vegetables. But how might these trends change in the years to come?
Diversity in leadership isn’t just about ticking boxes. New research on lisetd New Zealand companies finds it’s also about making businesses stronger.
The crater dates back 3.5 billion years, making it the oldest known by more than a billion years.
New research shows frogs and other amphibians are already on the brink of overheating in a warming world. Here’s how many will suffer as global temperatures rise.
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