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Key nervous system components shown to influence gastrointestinal tumour growth

Australia; VIC La Trobe University,Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute,Austin Health,Monash University,WEHI,Victorian Government,Harvard University BMJ Oncology
Expert Reaction
24 October 2025

EXPERT REACTION: Scientists respond to Labor's Environmental Protection Reform Bill

Australia; VIC; QLD; ACT Australian Science Media Centre
Expert Reaction
24 October 2025

EXPERT REACTION: Is there an association between air pollution exposure during pregnancy and autism risk?

Australia; International; VIC Environmental Health Science and Research Bureau, Canada JAMA Network Open
24 October 2025

Nutritional supplements boost baby coral survival

Australia; NSW; VIC University of Technology Sydney (UTS),Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS),The University of Melbourne Communications Biology
24 October 2025

New drug tested in mice could fill treatment void for most severe heart attack patients

Australia; VIC Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute,The University of Melbourne,Monash University,La Trobe University JACC: Basic to Translational Science
24 October 2025

What makes you more likely to get 'hangxiety'?

Australia; VIC Swinburne University of Technology Drug and Alcohol Review
24 October 2025

High speed cameras capture snake bites in slow-mo

Australia; VIC; TAS Monash University Journal of Experimental Biology
23 October 2025

Researchers get wind of hydrogen’s role in the gut

Australia; VIC Monash University,Hudson Institute of Medical Research Nature Microbiology
Expert Reaction
23 October 2025

EXPERT REACTION: Challenges and opportunities with Australia's critical minerals agreement

Australia; NSW; VIC; SA; WA; ACT Australian Science Media Centre
23 October 2025

Colon cancer DNA detectable in blood can guide chemo decisions

Australia; NSW; VIC; QLD; SA Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre,WEHI,The University of Melbourne,Monash University,The University of Adelaide,The University of Sydney,The University of Queensland Nature Medicine
23 October 2025

Restricting sugar in early childhood could have lasting heart benefits

Australia; International; NSW; VIC Monash University,The University of Sydney,Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China The BMJ
22 October 2025

Where should our conservation priorities lie?

Australia; International; VIC The University of Melbourne,Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, France PLOS Biology
22 October 2025

Not hunters but collectors: the bone that challenges the ‘humans wiped out Australian megafauna’ theory

Australia; NSW; VIC; QLD; WA The University of New South Wales,The University of Melbourne,Griffith University,Curtin University Royal Society Open Science
21 October 2025

Australian technology captures first light at Chilean observatory

Australia; VIC Macquarie University,Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) - Germany, Macquarie University / Australian Astronomical Optics (AAO) - Australia, Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon (CRAL) - France, European Southern Observatory (ESO) - Chile, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) and Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) - Germany, Nederlandse Onderzoekschool Voor Astronomie (NOVA) - Netherlands, University of Cambridge Institute of Astronomy (IoA) - UK, Universität Hamburg (UHH) Hamburger Sternwarte - Germany, Universität Heidelberg Zentrum für Astronomie (ZAH) - Germany
21 October 2025

Is our current system for getting an ADHD diagnosis set up to fail?

Australia; VIC Austin Health,Swinburne University of Technology Medical Journal of Australia
21 October 2025

Less wealthy Australians are developing chronic diseases at higher rates

Australia; VIC Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute,The University of Melbourne,Monash University,La Trobe University Medical Journal of Australia
21 October 2025

Up to one in five lung cancer patients aren't smokers

Australia; VIC Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre,The University of Melbourne JAMA
Briefing
21 October 2025

BRIEFING: Breastfeeding linked to lasting immune protection against breast cancer

Australia; International; VIC Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre,The University of Melbourne,The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity,WEHI Nature
20 October 2025

Hormone therapy alters body proteins to match gender identity

Australia; NSW; VIC Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI),The University of Melbourne,Burnet Institute,Monash University,The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity Nature Medicine
Expert Reaction
20 October 2025

EXPERT REACTION: First conference for entirely AI-authored research papers

Australia; NSW; VIC; SA Australian Science Media Centre
18 October 2025

One in five people with a normal BMI could have obesity and the risks that go with it

Australia; NSW; VIC; QLD; WA Charles Sturt University,Western Sydney University,The University of New South Wales,Macquarie University,Curtin University,The University of Queensland,The University of Sydney,The University of Newcastle,Monash University,Griffith University,Deakin University, Torrens University, Charles Darwin University JAMA Network Open
17 October 2025

Bat boxes could mean bye-bye bats during big heatwaves

Australia; International; NSW; VIC The University of Melbourne,The University of New England Journal of Experimental Biology
17 October 2025

What happens to the part of the brain disconnected by epilepsy surgery?

Australia; International; VIC Monash University,University of Milan, Italy PLOS Biology
16 October 2025

’Footprint of Death’ gives new clues to cell life, spread of disease

Australia; VIC La Trobe University,WEHI,The University of Melbourne Nature Communications
16 October 2025

Climate change is fuelling extreme wildfire seasons across the Earth

Australia; VIC The University of Melbourne
16 October 2025

Discovery of hundreds of new human gut viruses provides a new approach to studying the gut microbiome

Australia; VIC Monash University Nature
15 October 2025

Clocking into the internal rhythm of wheat plants

Australia; VIC The University of Melbourne,CSIRO New Phytologist
14 October 2025

Using psychedelics to treat depression produces promising findings

Australia; VIC Swinburne University of Technology,The University of Melbourne Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology
14 October 2025

Teens who start drinking as early as 12 have much higher risk of alcohol-related harms

Australia; NSW; VIC; WA; TAS The University of New South Wales,The University of Sydney,The University of Newcastle,University of Tasmania,The University of Melbourne,Curtin University Addiction
14 October 2025

New way to weaken cancer cells could supercharge prostate cancer treatment

Australia; International; VIC; SA Flinders University,The University of Adelaide,The University of Melbourne,South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
14 October 2025

Outfoxed: Research reveals Australia’s rapid red fox invasion

Australia; International; NSW; VIC; WA Curtin University Diversity and Distributions
14 October 2025

Antenatal corticosteroids linked to higher infection risk throughout childhood

Australia; International; NSW; VIC Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI),The University of Melbourne,The University of New South Wales,Burnet Institute,University of Edinburgh, UK JAMA Network Open
14 October 2025

New study tracks effects of world first social media ban on teens

Australia; VIC Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI)
13 October 2025

‘Far from negligible’: New Australian fossil fuel site will have major impact on people and the planet

Australia; International; NSW; VIC; QLD; SA; WA; ACT The Australian National University,The University of Adelaide,James Cook University,The University of New South Wales,The University of Melbourne Climate Action
13 October 2025

One in five NSW students suspended before finishing school

Australia; NSW; VIC Queensland University of Technology (QUT),The University of New South Wales,Monash University Children and Youth Services Review
Expert Reaction
13 October 2025

EXPERT REACTION: Early deaths still on the decline globally as health burden shifts toward preventable diseases

Australia; New Zealand; International; NSW; VIC; TAS Monash University,The University of Sydney,University of Tasmania,University of Washington, USA The Lancet

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