Swearing boosts performance by helping people feel focused, disinhibited, study finds ...

Hives of non-native honey bees in natural mānuka shrublands might disrupt the native ecosystem, according to NZ researchers. They studied DNA traces left by insects visiting the flowers, and found ...

Assessing teens' personalities to identify those most at risk of addiction to drugs or alcohol could allow effective early intervention and help keep them on the straight and narrow, according to ...

Getting the Pfizer or Moderna Covid vaccine in 2021 did not increase overall risk of death in the next four years compared to unvaccinated people, according to a nationwide study of 28 million people ...

While a pint at the pub is getting increasingly expensive, there are still a wide range of very cheap alcohol options sold for at-home consumption around NSW, according to Australian research. The ...

****BRIEFING RECORDING NOW AVAILABLE****Dengue fever is increasingly claiming lives on Australia's doorstep, and Australian outbreaks are often traced to travellers returning from popular holiday ...

Korean scientists investigated three popular chatbots people turn to for medical advice - ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude - to see if they could be made to dish out dodgy recommendations when the prompts ...

2025 was another big year in science news, both globally and locally, as the Trump Administration declared war... on science, extinct animals made a comeback, at least to the headlines, and DeepSeek ...

We know artificial intelligence (AI) is energy and water hungry, but how hungry? A Dutch scientist says that, while figuring out the power and water use of chatbots like ChatGPT is hard, looking at ...

Hold on to your hats (or sea sponge wigs if you're a dolphin), it's time for the AusSMC's top 10 WEIRD science stories of 2025! They're guaranteed NOT to turn your brain into glass, but we recommend ...

Nature has released their list of the top 10 people who shaped science in 2025. The names include a deep sea explorer, a physicist responsible for a new space telescope, several health researchers who ...