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A new study suggests that consistently working a longer week changes the way your brain works, impacting critical thinking and emotional responses.

How working long hours may be changing your brain

Putting in the hours but spinning your wheels at the office? New research suggests that working a longer week may be to blame.

  • Michael Searles

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A genetically modified Aedes aegypti mosquito at a lab in Brazil.

We finally may be able to rid the world of mosquitoes – but should we?

The mozzie is the deadliest animal on Earth and scientists now have the tools to potentially zap it from existence, but some warn of the hidden dangers of doing so.

  • Dino Grandoni
Vaccinations for COVID are at a five-year low, as health authorities warn of a new variant ahead of winter.

New COVID variant emerges as vaccination rates plunge

The World Health Organisation is monitoring a new variant of COVID as health authorities urge people to consider getting free flu jabs and booster shots.

  • Courtney Kruk
Palestinians inspect the damage at school used as a shelter by displaced residents that was hit by Israeli military strike in Gaza City on Monday.

Distribution hubs and ‘screening’: How the new aid system will work in Gaza

A controversial new group backed by Israel and the United States to deliver aid in Gaza has handed out its first packages, hours after its boss quit amid concerns about its independence.

  • Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy
Burnout is a kind of “bone-deep exhaustion” that can leave you overwhelmed and lacking motivation at work.

Tired, stressed and unenthusiastic? Here’s how to bounce back from burnout

Recovery can vary from person to person but some strategies can help.

  • Hannah Kennelly
A security official moves journalists away from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2021.

Trump remodels COVID-19 support website into lab leak ‘truth’ page

The White House has thrown its weight behind an origin theory that is so far not backed by direct evidence and that many scientists consider less likely than it having emerged at a Wuhan wild-animal market.

  • Benjamin Mueller
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Nick A’Hern has discovered disturbing levels of forever chemicals in his blood, after his tap water supply was contaminated. A’hern, his partner actress Joanne Samuel and his son have all recovered from cancer.

Nick and his family were stalked by cancer. Then came a blood-test bombshell

Nick A’Hern and his actor wife left Sydney for a pristine place to raise their children, but have since discovered their tap water was toxic.

  • Carrie Fellner
Health workers dressed in protective gear at an Ebola treatment centre in Beni in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Ebola has been ruled out this time.

What we know about the deadly mystery illnesses affecting hundreds in Congo

The first cases occurred after children ate bats. Now hundreds of people in two villages are sick and more than 50 are dead.

  • Chinedu Asadu and Jean-Yves Kamale
Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo Judith Suminwa talks to journalists during a press conference in Geneva.

Mystery illness kills more than 50 within hours in Congo

The outbreak began after three children ate a bat and died after suffering haemorrhagic fever symptoms. The WHO has ruled out Ebola.

  • Jean-Yves Kamale and Olivia Le Poidevin
A woman in the Blue Mountains has found high levels of PFAS in her blood after the region’s drinking water supply was contaminated.

She was dogged by health issues. Then this Sydney woman found cancer chemicals in her blood

The woman long feared something in her house was poisoning her. Her blood test was an “aha” moment.

  • Carrie Fellner

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