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Professor Bryce Vissel.

Shingles-dementia link gives weight to a ‘heretical’ theory

The shingles vaccine seems to give some protection against dementia. But why?

  • Liam Mannix

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Scientist Hugh Goold has completed the final stage of an international effort to create a synthetic yeast genome.

Hugh once delivered cheese to the Queen. Now he’s built the key to synthetic life

The first-ever synthetic multicellular organism is ready to come to life after a Sydney breakthrough 10 years in the making.

  • Angus Dalton
Senator Cory Booker spoke for more than 25 hours without leaving the flood.

‘Urological mystery’: The gargantuan strain Booker’s 25-hour speech put on his body

Sore feet, back pain, a neglected bladder, sleep-deprivation: how physiological effects would have plagued the record-breaking senator.

  • Angus Dalton
Scientists catch, tattoo and release cleaner wrasse fish on Lizard Island as part of a behavioural research project.

The scientists working to keep the ‘lights’ on at the Great Barrier Reef

Mass coral mortality is the worst it has ever been. Some experts say neither side of politics is prepared to reckon with reality.

  • Angus Dalton
Medical researcher Adrienne O’Neill lived with chronic fatigue for a decade before receiving a diagnosis.

It took 11 years for Adrienne’s illness to be diagnosed. A new computer model could change everything

Chronic fatigue syndrome is notoriously difficult to diagnose, but a new computer-assisted model can predict it with 85 per cent accuracy.

  • Broede Carmody and Hannah Kennelly
James was diagnosed with ADHD after emerging from lockdown in the pandemic - part of a growing cohort diagnosed post-pandemic

How the pandemic prompted a surge in adult ADHD diagnoses

Everything changed in 2020. Millions of Australians found themselves stuck inside – just as an ecosystem of ADHD content creators was flourishing on social media.

  • Liam Mannix
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Shark killers extraordinaire, orcas Port and Starboard.

Two killer whales are hunting down great white sharks, Hannibal Lecter style

Forget Free Willy, this is Silence of the Lambs. Shark experts are trying to figure out how and why these orcas are dispatching one of the ocean’s fiercest predators.

  • Jonathan Edwards
Did the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation really invent Wi-Fi?

Who really ‘invented Wi-Fi’, and the problem of Australian science innovation

The story of how CSIRO came to lay claim to inventing Wi-Fi deserves scrutiny as the Trump administration threatens to withdraw scientific funding.

  • Liam Mannix
Former ANU vice-chancellor Professor Brian Schmidt.

‘Sugar-daddy’ Trump comes for CSIRO on scientific research funding

The Trump administration is demanding Australian government researchers answer a diversity, gender and climate survey to guarantee funding as experts warn we’ve become overly reliant on the United States.

  • Liam Mannix and Hannah Kennelly
Fish kill in Ballina waterways in the weeks after Cyclone Alfred.

Mass fish kill chokes waterways in Byron region

The rivers of the NSW North Coast are clogged with thousands of suffocating fish, prawns, eels, and crabs.

  • Angus Dalton

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