Health and Science
'Kickboxing turkey' ruled over Romania
THE fossil of a stocky new dinosaur has given researchers a window into what European predators looked like in the final years of the age of dinosaurs.
Bloodgate doctor back at work
The MATCHDAY doctor at the centre of the so-called Bloodgate scandal has been told she is free to practise medicine again.
Pre-emptive surgery to beat cancer
WOMEN with a genetic predisposition to breast or ovarian cancer can dramatically reduce their risk of developing either by having preventative surgeries.
Choice takes a stand on BPA risk to babies
Adam Cresswell THREE-QUARTERS of popular canned foods - including baby foods -contain levels of the hormone-disrupting chemical bisphenol-A
Enter, the pursuit of animals
Jill Rowbotham ALTHOUGH it is 25 years since Peter Singer published Animal Liberation, human-animal studies has yet to take off as an area of academic research.
Science infrastructure review next year
Bernard Lane A PLAN that brought a new level of sophistication to investment in research infrastructure will be revisited next year.
Survey finds graduates' mathematics doesn't add up
Guy Healy SCIENCE graduates are in serious trouble with their mathematics skills according to UQ Australian Learning and Teaching Council project leader Kelly Matthews.
Dengue fever hits Games athletes
COMMONWEALTH Games athletes have fallen ill with dengue fever as the Indian capital struggles to contain the mosquito-borne disease.
Coalition could shed up to 1300 CSIRO key staff
Cheryl Jones AUSTRALIA'S premier research agency, the CSIRO, could lose up to 1300 staff if the Coalition were to come to power.
Local support for report on UN climate panel
Leigh Dayton, Science writer AUSTRALIAN scientists have given a qualified thumbs-up to findings of a review of the UN's climate panel, released yesterday in New York.
Groundbreaking technology is speeding up the search for personalised medical treatments.
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A little rich
2:44PM John Lethlean PLACES for the immaculately groomed and financially resplendent are rarely fun and almost always bastions of food mediocrity.
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Sleep deficit raises risk of mental illnesses in youth
10:26PM Adam Cresswell SLEEPING fewer hours than recommended puts young adults at increased risk that any mental health problems they already have will become persistent.
Review urges reforms to climate body
8:27AM AN international review has called on the UN climate change body to carry out reforms after errors in a landmark report dented its credibility.
Genetic hope for migraines
Gene detectives say they have found the first inherited link to common types of migraine, a finding that boosts hopes for new drugs.
Genes link to men's heart attacks
9:20AM Hannah Devlin SCIENTISTS have found a genetic explanation for why men are more likely than women to suffer heart attacks and strokes.
New drug cuts rate of heart failure
Drew Warne-Smith MEDICAL researchers are heralding a breakthrough in the treatment of cardiovascular disease.
Dinosaur's nemesis may be apple's creator
THE apple may have evolved as a direct result of the comet impact thought to have wiped out dinosaurs 65 million years ago, scientists say.
What you see not always what you recall
Stephen Pincock HELEN Paterson has the work of an arsonist to thank for her fascination with the reliability of witness memories.
Low-tech road to crisis
AT THE COALFACE: Terry J. Hannan CRITICAL e-health reform is being interrupted by the Coalition.
Good week for active people
PULSE: Adam Taor Good week for active people, after research showing the longer their couch potato friends sit each day, the likelier they are to die.
US injunction threat to our research
Leigh Dayton, Science writer AUSTRALIAN researchers are alarmed by this week's news that a US judge has blocked federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.
Robot joins war on child cancer
Adam Creswell, Health editor LESS than 30 years ago, cancer was so feared it was often considered off-limits in polite conversation.
Hospital boards trump bureaucracy
OPINION: Jeremy Sammut HEALTH policy did not receive the attention it deserved during the federal election campaign.
Bigger hospital `would have saved child'
Sarah Elks, North Queensland Correspondent A four-year-old who died in a remote indigenous community's hospital might have survived if she had been evacuated to a bigger facility.
Ethical doubts over optical sales
Mark Schliebs AMA president Andrew Pesce says optometrists working for optical retailers face a potential conflict of interest
Giants orbit a distant sun
11:56AM ASTROPHYSICISTS have detected two giant planets the size of Saturn and a possible third the size of Earth orbiting a distant star.
Aboriginal girl death prompts new rules
11:29AM Sarah Elks QUEENSLAND Health will develop guidelines on deaths in indigenous communities and how to communicate with families, an inquest into a girl's' death has heard.
Footage of Cousins 'may harm kids'
Amanda Meade and Courtney Walsh THE Ben Cousins documentary has been a major ratings winner for the Seven Network.
Girl 'would have died anyway'
Sarah Elks A PEDIATRICIAN has said a four-year-old girl who died in an indigenous hospital was likely to have died regardless of medical care.
Blow to Japan's whaling 'science'
Sallie Don A NEW way to study dolphins and whales without dart guns undercuts Japan's argument for what it calls scientific whaling, scientists say.
It's not easy being this tiny
3:39PM ASIA'S smallest frog, a creature the size of a pea, has been discovered living in and around carnivorous plants in the forests of Borneo.
