Early Alzheimer’s blood test
A simple blood test that detects signs of brain damage could be used to spot developing Alzheimer’s disease.
Health Science
Pakistan bid to wipe out polio
Pakistan kicks off its first nationwide polio vaccination campaign for the year in efforts to eradicate the disease by 2020.
TOO LATE TO NIP IN THE BUD
As Australia debates drugs, legal cannabis is raising health fears in the US.
Smelter shutdown helps keep lead below dangerous levels
Drastic action by the operator of a South Australian lead smelter has averted a breach of its licence conditions.
Blue whales, farmers of the sea?
The riddles of Earth’s largest creature may soon be unravelled as experts set sail on the most comprehensive scientific voyage ever.
Faith in healing project
When Ron Finkel’s first son was born in Jerusalem in 1981, he realised something special was happening around him.
China ‘grows plant on moon’
America may have put the first man on the moon, but China is laying claim to growing the first plant on the lunar surface.
Slimming down does a fat lot of good if your metabolism is off-kilter
A big waist is never a good sign but a lack of obesity doesn’t guarantee good health.
Birders flock to rare, lost duck
Sydney man Stephen Aveling-Rowe drove 850km to Victoria to see a rare tufted duck that only landed in Australia because it was lost.
DNA pioneer stripped of honours
A Nobel laureate has been stripped of his honorary titles after he repeated a belief that blacks were intellectually inferior to whites.
Not fatheaded about obesity
The great panic about fatness has made healthy people miserable and diet quacks rich.
Science fixes nature’s flaws to put photosynthesis in overdrive
Photosynthesis ensures life exists at all. But it is also seriously flawed, with a glitch that greatly reduces its efficiency.
A world leader in robotic surgery
Munjed Al Muderis fled Saddam Hussein’s oppressive regime in Iraq to become one of Australia’s foremost orthopaedic surgeons.
Professor backs permanent drug-test centres
A medical professor has backed the idea of a centralised drug-testing facility in capital cities, following a spate of overdoses.
Space peanut turns into snowman
Ultima Thule is an icy celestial body that NASA scientists announced yesterday is aptly shaped like a giant snowman.
Cold case: DNA expert urges national ID centre
Joyce Baxter went missing in Hobart in 1955. Boys playing on a track on Mount Wellington in 1972 found a skull and some bones.
Add safety to fun in the sun
Danger is lurking in the sun, surf and sand this summer.
China lands on dark side of moon
A Chinese lunar rover has achieved a global first that boosts Beijing’s ambitions to become a space superpower | VIDEO
Board accused of trying to silence doctors
Doctors say a push to consider cultural sensitivities, for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, undermines patient safety.
Mysterious rock carries secrets
For 13 years a NASA spacecraft the size of a grand piano has barrelled away from Earth at about 51,000km/h.
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