Wait times for emergency department presentations and elective surgeries in public hospitals stayed about the same in 2024-2025 as they were the previous year, according to a report from the ...

Study suggests counter climate groups emerge as a form of backlash to stronger environmental policies and institutions A new study suggests that countries with stronger commitments to protect the ...

The federal Agriculture Minister Julie Collins has confirmed Australia's first case of highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu has been detected in Western Australia. The infected bird was found on a remote ...

Generative AI technology could create between 1.2 and 5 million tonnes of e-waste between 2020 and 2030, predicts new research in Nature Computational Science. The ...

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and queer people are more likely to have experienced childhood trauma before the age of 18 than their heterosexual peers, according to international research. The team used ...

Today, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria re-launched its plant biodiversity website, VicFlora. The new portal features upgrades that allow users to identify Victoria’s plants more easily. It is based on ...

Dutch scientists say an intervention called The Healthy Primary School of the Future (HPSF) - which provides healthy school lunches and extra physical activity (PA) sessions - boosts kids' maths ...

*** RECORDING NOW AVAILABLE *** Last year, over 1,700 Australians lost their lives to flu, the highest number of flu deaths this century, but how is the 2026 season shaping up? With winter just over ...

A study which examined over 500,000 deaths in Florida and Ohio during the pandemic has found that death rates were significantly higher for Republican voters than Democratic voters after COVID-19 ...

Arithmetic has a biological origin deep in our evolutionary past, according to new research from the University of Canterbury. Authors of the study say that four key principles describe how humans and ...

A new study by the Menzies-led DIABETES Across the LIFECOURSE: Northern Australia Partnership has identified seven co-designed recommendations for schools to better support Aboriginal and Torres ...

The heart and lung capacity and strength of transgender women exceed those of their cisgender peers, even after years of female hormone therapy, but they are lower than those of cisgender men, ...