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Poor report card for children’s wellbeing

Aug 23, 2023

It also found that female students, children in higher year levels, and students from lower socioeconomic cohorts were more likely to have poor wellbeing than their counterparts. Higher wellbeing is...

Why men, wealthy people and maritime residents are more likely to develop skin cancer

Aug 22, 2023

Current estimates indicate that up to 1 in 3 Canadians will develop some form of skin cancer during their lifetime. “To prevent skin cancer many Canadians really need to act...

Hard yacca: grass skirts are a life saver for many animals, but fire and disease threaten their survival

Aug 22, 2023

22 August 2023Yaccas' long thick, grassy skirts help insulate animals from temperature extremes. Now, new research has revealed another, far more important, feature: their ability to protect wildlife from deadly...

The interactive art of Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: psychic resonance, surveillance and a murmuration of lights

Aug 22, 2023

This new show at the Powerhouse Museum reflects the chaos of the digital world and the ubiquity of digital tracking. We are in the Rafael Lozano-Hemmer exhibition Atmospheric Memory at...

Strict tech rules at boarding school a bonus for teens’ sleep

Aug 21, 2023

The findings are based on a survey of 309 students from a co-educational school in Adelaide, including 59 boarders and 250 day students. UniSA researcher Dr Alex Agostini says the...

A new way to evaluate the impact of medical research

Aug 18, 2023

In a new study, the researchers evaluated more than 100,000 medical papers published in the last 20 years and found that most did not do well on this metric. For...

Simple superconducting device could dramatically cut energy use in computing, other applications

Aug 18, 2023

Using that general platform, they developed different iterations of superconducting diodes, each more efficient than the last. When they applied a tiny magnetic field comparable to the Earth’s magnetic field,...

Largest genetic study of brain structure identifies how the brain is organised

Aug 18, 2023

Little is known about how our genetic make-up shapes the development of the brain. From these scans, the researchers measured multiple properties of the outermost layer of the brain called...

International collaboration identifies new breast cancer susceptibility genes

Aug 18, 2023

Current genetic tests for breast cancer only consider a few genes, such as BRCA1, BRCA2, and PALB2. However, these only explain a minority of the genetic risk, suggesting that more...

Nano-thin 'liquid-like' coatings pave the way for a self-cleaning world

Aug 17, 2023

“A water droplet glides with no friction over a thick oil film, but if you completely remove the oil film, say by using soap, most water droplets will stick to...