Nov 22, 2024 · International researchers have figured out the makeup of a "phantom chemical" found in some drinking water, over 40 years after it was first discovered.

Sep 20, 2024 · EXPERT REACTION: 'Widescale harm' predicted from microplastics pollution in the next 100 years A review of 20 years of microplastics research concludes that addressing microplastics contamination, which could more than double by 2040, needs regulations that involve the public, social scienc

Dec 13, 2024 · The Coalition has released the highly anticipated modelling of its nuclear energy plan. Produced by Frontier Economics, the report's author says including nuclear power in our energy mix is cheaper – by up to 44% - for Australians in the medium-term future.

Dec 19, 2024 · Media release From: Royal Astronomical Society (UK) Dark energy 'doesn’t exist' so can't be pushing 'lumpy' Universe apart – study. One of the biggest mysteries in science – dark energy – doesn't actually exist, according to researchers looking to solve the riddle of how the Universe is expanding.

Sep 20, 2024 · New research points to COVID-19's animal origins New research into the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has added to the growing evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic was sparked by the introduction of infected animals into the Huanan Seafood market in November 2019. On January 1, 2020, after

Dec 2, 2024 · Peer-reviewed: This work was reviewed and scrutinised by relevant independent experts. Meta-analysis: This type of study involves using statistics to combine the data from multiple previous studies to give an overall result. The reliability of a meta-analysis depends on both the quality and similarity of the individual studies being grouped together.

Dec 20, 2024 · Media release From: The Lancet The Lancet Psychiatry: One in 127 people on the autism spectrum globally in 2021, latest estimates suggest One in every 127 people (61.8 million individuals) were estimated to be on the autism spectrum globally in 2021, according to a new study from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors (GBD) 2021 published in The Lancet Psychiatry.

Nov 27, 2024 · Luckily, it was another bumper year for weird science in 2024, providing much-needed relief from all the doomscrolling. In weird health news, we learned that a German man had 217 COVID-19 jabs and experienced no side effects, but narrowly escaped prosecution, and a plexiglass-like 'window' allowed scientists to peer directly into a man's brain.

Oct 8, 2024 · Media release From: Cell Press After injury, these comb jellies can fuse to become one. Researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on October 7 have made the surprising discovery that one species of comb jelly (Mnemiopsis leidyi) can fuse, such that two individuals readily turn into one following an injury.

Publicly released: Tue 28 Jan 2025 at 1102 AEDT | 1302 NZDT Forensic Science International: Genetics. DNA profiling technologies are rapidly advancing, creating the potential to identify individuals involved in making, packing and transporting illegal capsules by analysing the exterior of the illicit drugs and the ziplock plastic bag in which they...