Potent drug that ‘slipped under the radar’
Researchers at the Doherty Institute in Melbourne will trial a new treatment for coronavirus in a major clinical trial.
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New weapon ready to fight variants
The single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine is highly effective in preventing severe COVID-19, including newer variants, says US Food and Drug Administration.
Asteroid dust proves how dinosaurs died
Scientists have evidence definitively linking dinosaurs’ extinction to 11.2km-wide asteroid that struck 66 million years ago.
Anti-vaxxers wage election crusade
Anti-vaccination candidates are contesting every seat in the West Australian election in March as activists around the country seize on the COVID-19 immunisation rollout.
Fears over training quality for aged-care jabbers
Medical experts are concerned that training for doctors and nurses administering COVID-19 vaccines in aged care is second-class.
Pfizer to be stored at warmer temperatures
New data from Pfizer shows its vaccine can now be stored at standard freezer temperatures instead of in ultra-cold conditions.
Winter influenza deaths fell to just two
Just two people in Australia died from influenza between late April and November last year.
Grieving family’s anti-vax torment
A woman whose infant daughter died from whooping cough has shared harrowing details of the war of misinformation the anti-vaxxer movement waged on her family, in a new documentary on Sky News.
Call for AFL players to donate brains
A Victorian coroner has called for AFL players to donate their brains to research the impact of contact sports, following the suicide of Danny Frawley.
Heard for first time: what Mars sounds like
Sound of the Martian wind travels more than 211m kms across the universe to be heard for first time on Earth | LISTEN
Jab optimism rising here and abroad
Optimism is rising that COVID-19 vaccines will significantly curtail the transmission of coronavirus.
H5N8 avian flu found in humans
Russia has alerted the World Health Organisation to the transmission of the virus to poultry farm workers.
Quest for the best vaccine has one clear winner: you
The pandemic, for all its tragedy, has provided a ‘dream study’ in vaccine technology that could revolutionise medicine.
Genomic editing no magic bullet for inherited ills
With myriad ethical and practical problems, the government has kept its proposed ‘three-parent-baby’ legislation under the radar.
Covid survivors sought to solve reaction puzzle
The University of Queensland is calling for Australians who have suffered from COVID-19 to participate in a study to understand why different patients have varied reactions to the virus.
We must save our sick wildlife
When tourists stand among the grey kangaroos on Look At Me Now headland to take a selfie in the wild, they probably don’t think too hard about why the animals don’t jump away.
Aussies taste scientific life on Mars
Australian scientists will play an integral role in the ‘groundbreaking’ mission to discover ancient life on Mars, after NASA’s Perseverance Rover landed on the Red Planet on Friday.
NASA’s Perseverance rover lands on Mars
After negotiating landing phase known as the ‘seven minutes of terror’, NASA’s Perseverance rover sends back first images from the red planet’s surface.
Looking to space ‘is key to fire fighting’
The NSW government is urging the federal government to bolster national security by developing Australia’s own satellite capabilities.
AI enhances phones for the blind
Melbourne start-up RealThing Ai is using AI to enhance its modified smartphones that read news to blind and partially sighted people.
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