Toxic protein found in Alzheimer’s research
The process by which normal neurons become poisoned by a toxic protein may be the mechanism by which Alzheimer’s disease spreads in its vast majority of victims.
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Close encounters of the unidentified aerial kind
The skies over Australia have long been fertile territory for UFO sightings, old records show.
Outrage at ‘whale coffin’ on Straddie
The Queensland government and an Aboriginal corporation are to push ahead with a whale watching centre on North Stradbroke Island.
TGA to rule on psychedelic drug access
A group of prominent Australians is continuing to push for greater access to psychedelic drugs to treat mental health problems.
‘Act now or we face ecosystem extinction’
The natural environment, iconic places and endangered species are in trouble and need new, rigorously enforced national standards to protect them, an independent review has concluded.
Spider fame for rescue heroes
Rare cave-dwelling spiders found only on the Nullarbor Plain have been named after the Thai cave heroes who rescued a group of boys from almost certain death.
Concern over vaccine evidence for elderly
The TGA is assessing ‘all the evidence’ amid concerns that older people were not included in trials in large enough numbers.
Positive corona side effect
Seasonal influenza and respiratory disease dropped dramatically among WA children last winter, in a rare positive outcome of the coronavirus pandemic.
Doctors slam TGA for critical shortages
Senior medical specialists have criticised the national medicines regulator over its failure to deal with shortages of critical drugs.
Sea rising faster as global ice shelves melt
Enough ice to cover the whole of Britain in a sheet 100m thick has melted from glaciers and the polar regions since the mid-1990s and the rate of loss is accelerating, a study has found.
Unsung hero on the virus frontline
Top commonwealth official Caroline Edwards is an unsung hero of the nation’s initial coronavirus response, having led the federal health team.
Weigh giving jab to frail elderly: TGA
Doctors and nurses administering the Pfizer vaccine should ‘carefully assess’ the merits of giving the jab to the frail elderly on a case-by-case basis.
Lots of pluses and few minuses
As far as vaccine efficacy goes, it doesn’t get much better than Pfizer-BioNTech — the mRNA vaccine showed efficacy of 95 per cent in clinical trials.
Dinosaur may be world’s largest
Scientists have unearthed massive, 98-million-year-old fossils in southwest Argentina they say may have belonged to the largest dinosaur ever discovered.
Trove of Kinsey letters reveals British carnal curiosity
Postwar letters to the academic Alfred Kinsey show wide variations in nations’ carnal curiosity.
AMA call for mass upscaling of drug-making
The AMA is calling for a mass upscaling of critical drugs to be manufactured onshore, triggered by a shortage of essential medications due to coronavirus disruptions.
Breakthrough: CBD oil kills gonorrhoea bacteria
Groundbreaking new research has found synthetic cannabidiol can kill bacteria associated with gonorrhoea, meningitis and legionnaires disease.
Quick and safe vax method
Australian scientists have created a new method for synthesising vaccines that will enable the quicker and safer production of vital immunisations.
AstraZeneca claims ‘not evidence-based’
Claims that the AstraZeneca vaccine prevents death ‘100 per cent of the time’ are not based on evidence, say experts.
No slowdown in scary climate prophecy
Every year, new climate doomsday projections seem to pop up. These gratuitous and unverified claims are not science, no matter what Al Gore and Greta Thunberg would have you believe.
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