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Any attempts to create “mirror life” should be stopped, according to the scientists who were trying to create it.

Scientists slam brakes on research that could lead to the perfect bioweapon

Potentially catastrophic risks to life as we know it have prompted dozens of eminent scientists to hit the brakes on their research.

  • Angus Dalton

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The newly opened Moderna Technology Centre at Monash University in Clayton, Melbourne.

‘We don’t have a Team Australia approach’: Vaccine facility rejects plea for help

A request by NSW to access a taxpayer-funded Moderna mRNA facility was knocked back, raising more questions about how much value Australia is getting from the facility.

  • Liam Mannix and Paul Sakkal
With matching double degrees in mechatronics and engineering, the 25-year-olds turn heads as they help design and build the Scitech Discovery Centre displays that engage minds young and old in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Formula one, two: Meet the Perth twins driving the next generation in STEM

With matching double degrees in mechatronics and engineering, the 25-year-olds turn heads with their Scitech Discovery Centre designs – including a rac car that hits 100km/h in four seconds.

  • Claire Ottaviano
How earthquakes strike.

Scientists know where the big earthquakes will hit. They just don’t know when

A lurch in the Earth’s tectonic plates can wreak havoc at any time – as we’ve just seen in Vanuatu. How do scientists measure quakes, and are we doing enough to prepare?

  • Sherryn Groch
The science of DNA, new Scitech displays inspire young minds.

New science displays delight curious minds ahead of school holidays

New exhibition to show young minds they don’t have to go beyond WA to have a meaningful career in STEM.

  • Claire Ottaviano
Government auditors have savaged the government’s top research agency’s lax approach to scientific misconduct and fraud in an audit that could lead to a major shakeup of the way bad science is policed.

Dodgy science in crosshairs as fraud audit censures Australia’s top research agency

The National Health and Medical Research Council has been criticised over its lax approach to scientific misconduct in an audit that lays the groundwork for changes in the way bad science is policed.

  • Liam Mannix
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Paramedic Kelsey Hibberd is helping raise funds to fight heart disease.

Paramedic Kelsey lost her dad to a heart attack. She now hopes for ‘exercise in a pill’ to save lives

Ground-breaking Australian research is aimed at developing medication that can mimic the benefits of exercise on the heart and help prevent sudden cardiac death.

  • Wendy Tuohy
Doctors dismissed Brendan Moynihan as too young to have a “seroius” health issue.

Lifestyle and the ‘lag effect’: What’s causing the rise of early onset cancer

Since 1990, cancer in people aged 18 to 49 has increased by 80 per cent worldwide. But why?

  • Sarah Berry
Some sleep physicians estimate most people will experience sleep paralysis at least once in their lives, yet it remains widely under-researched.

Frozen in fear: Sleep paralysis is more common than you think

It’s a condition most people will experience at least once in their lives, yet it remains woefully under-researched.

  • Nell Geraets
Peter Hersey and Xu Dong Zhang, seen here in 20099.

University investigates papers by top Australian cancer researchers after retractions

The University of Newcastle has launched a review into several scientific papers co-authored by two leading researchers after integrity concerns were raised.

  • Liam Mannix

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