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Heart test is something to spit at

A saliva test that detects the early stages of heart failure could in coming years be available at pharmacies.

Natasha Robinson

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Scientific cancel culture exposed

An inquiry into Great Barrier Reef farming yields remarkable confessions as institutions are challenged by evidence.

PETER RIDD

APPLE LAUNCHTechnology

The new Apple Watch Series 6 features a blood oxygen monitoring system.

Apple’s big COVID-19 play revealed

New Watches, iPads unveiled as tech giant flags research to see if blood oxygen monitoring feature can pick up early signs of virus.

Chris Griffith

Commentary

Prof Tony Blakely, public health expert, Melbourne University

Resist the tyranny of experts

The epidemiologists have been in charge during this pandemic and what a carry-on it has been.

Judith Sloan

The Times

This handout satellite image captured on August 27, 2020 by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission and released by European Space Agency (ESA) shows ice breaking off the Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden glacier in Northeast Greenland. - Warmer temperatures in Greenland has led to a 113 square kilometre mass of ice breaking off from the Arctic's largest floating glacier, scientists said on September 14, 2020, adding that given rising average temperatures the break-off was expected. (Photo by Handout / EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / COPERNICUS/ SENTINEL 2 / ESA" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

Arctic’s biggest ice shelf melting faster

A 39sq km chunk of the Arctic’s largest remaining ice shelf has broken off in northeast Greenland.

Ben Webster

‘wake-up call’The Times

Scientists find signs of life on Venus

Scientists have been left ‘stunned’ at a discovery swirling around Venus, where temperatures are high enough to melt lead.

Tom Whipple

Science

Virus fears led to drop in cancer diagnoses

The diagnosis and treatment of three of the most common cancers plummeted with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, a review has found.

Natasha Robinson

ExclusiveScience

14/09/20 Dana Nicolau suffers from schizophrenia and is taking part in a clinical trial using a drug that targets the estrogen-receptor in the brain to improve memory outcomes.. Aaron Francis/The Australian

Hope for hormones on issues of the mind

When Dana Nicolau was diagnosed schizophrenic, her doctors suggested something from left field.

KIERAN GAIR

HealthThe Times

Shot of pretty young woman eating yogurt while standing in the kitchen at home.

What to eat to boost your mood

The key to feeling more positive could be in simple ingredients in your kitchen cupboard

Peta Bee

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TOPSHOT - A nurse prepares a measles vaccine to a boy in the school of Lapaivka village near the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on February 21, 2019. - The mobile brigade, which consists of two pediatricians and a nurse, arrived to the Lapaivka village as part of the health ministry's special operation in this region, leading in terms of registered measles cases. A measles epidemic is still not declared in Ukraine, though in 2018 the country recorded highest number of measles cases in European region. Since the start of 2019, around 20,000 people in Ukraine have contracted this highly contagious viral disease. Nine people, including two children, have died of measles in Ukraine this year. (Photo by Yuri DYACHYSHYN / AFP)

Vaccine trial resumes after safety scare

Pharma giant AstraZeneca and Oxford University will press on after a UK vaccine volunteer fell ill.

AFP

Celebrity geniusThe Times

In this handout photo provided by Zero Gravity Corp., astrophysicist Stephen Hawking floats on a zero-gravity jet, April 26, 2007. The modified jet carrying Hawking, a handful of his physicians and nurses, and dozens of others first flew up to 24,000 feet over the Atlantic Ocean off Florida. (AP Photo/Zero Gravity Corp.) ** NO SALES ** MANDATORY CREDIT **

Flawed genius: Rude, vain and domineering

A fellow physicist has told of his famous friend Stephen Hawking’s less scientific side.

Tom Whipple

exclusivePolitics

16/04/20 Professor Shitij Kapur is the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at the University of Melbourne. He is leading a project to give the federal government expert recommendations on dealing with COVID-19. Aaron Francis/The Australian

Andrews told to redo Covid modelling

World-leading scientists linked to the modelling Daniel Andrews used to lock down Melbourne say the research has been misrepresented.

Simon Benson

ExclusiveScience

Expeditionerst South Masson Range. Science and field work have been curtailed for this summer by COVID-related scaling-back of Australia's Antarctic program. Pic by Matt Williams. Supplied 11.09.20

Virus puts Antarctic science on ice

Australia’s Antarctic operations are on ice, amid warnings Covid-19 threatens vital science.

Matthew Denholm

Trial suspendedScience

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - AUGUST 19: A general view of AstraZeneca is seen during Prime Minister Scott Morrison's visit on August 19, 2020 in Sydney, Australia. The Australian government has announced an agreement with the British pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca to secure at least 25 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine if it passes clinical trials. The University of Oxford COVID-19 vaccine is currently in phase-three testing. If the vaccine proves to be successful, Australia will manufacture and supply vaccines and will be made available for free. The project could deliver the first vaccines by the end of this year or by early 2021. (Photo by Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images)

Vaccine setback ‘no cause for panic’

The adverse reaction by one of the Oxford vaccine trial participants is revealed.

Jamie Walker and Jacquelin Magnay

Politics

Smoker inhaling on cigarettePhoto Warren Lynam / Sunshine Coast Daily

Big drop in funds to fight smoking

Spending on anti-smoking public health campaigns has plummeted over the past decade as health experts say Australia risks losing momentum.

Natasha Robinson

The Times

Electric current ‘helps dyslexics’

Applying a mild electric current to the brain could help people with dyslexia to read more confidently, a study suggests.

Rhys Blakely

Sci-Fi to realityThe Times

ALMA, in which ESO is a partner, and the SPHERE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope have imaged GW Orionis, a triple star system with a peculiar inner region. Unlike the flat planet-forming discs we see around many stars, GW Orionis features a warped disc, deformed by the movements of the three stars at its centre. This composite image shows both the ALMA and SPHERE observations of the disc. The ALMA image shows the disc’s ringed structure, with the innermost ring (part of which is visible as an oblong dot at the very centre of the image) separated from the rest of the disc. The SPHERE observations allowed astronomers to see for the first time the shadow of this innermost ring on the rest of the disc, which made it possible for them to reconstruct its warped shape.

Glimpse of planet orbiting three suns

1,300 light years away spins a solar system that could give Luke Skywalker’s home planet of Tatooine a run for its money.

Rhys Blakely

COVID-19 jab developmentThe Times

A female rhesus macaque monkey looks out from its crate before being sent to an Indian sanctuary Friday, May 19, 2006 in Singapore. The monkey smuggled into Singapore and kept in a warehouse, chained to a pole by its neck, was rescued and repatriated to India by an animal rights group Friday. Under Singapore law, the keeping of primates as pets is punishable by a maximum fine of 50,000 Singapore dollars (US$31,600; euro 24,600) for each animal, and 2 years' jail, but it was not immediately clear if the monkey's owner was penalized. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

Monkey shortage could delay vaccine

Tests on rhesus macaque monkeys are typically the last hurdle before human trials, but researchers have issued a warning.

Will Pavia

EXCLUSIVEScience

Professor Nikolai Petrovsky will be the first researcher in Australia to trial a COVID-19 vaccine in humans within weeks, at Flinders University in Adelaide, Saturday, May 23, 2020. (The Advertiser, Morgan Sette)

Firm to keep tabs on vaccine side effects

The Department of Health is concerned Australians who receive a COVID-19 vaccine may experience side effects.

Olivia Caisley

FitnessThe Times

Beautiful fit woman in good shape jogging alone on city bridge.

Outdoor workouts the way forwards

Not ready to get back in the gym? From boosting your mood to helping you keep your distance, fresh-air exercise has all kinds of benefits.

Peta Bee

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