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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BACKGROUND BRIEFING: Bloomin' Algae! The latest science behind the SA algal bloom As we head into summer, many people are wondering what will happen to South Australia's algal bloom that h ...

Digital health technologies give health and aged care systems the opportunity to deliver cost savings, efficiencies, stronger safeguards and more seamless connections to other services. A review of ...

A 13-year-old boy in New Zealand has undergone major surgery after eating 80–100 small neodymium magnets that were purchased on Temu. That's despite the magnets being banned for sale for personal or ...

An upcoming scientific conference, Agents4Science 2025, claims to be the first Open Conference where AI serves as both primary authors and reviewers of the research papers. Organised by researchers at ...

International researchers have developed a method for making bamboo-based plastic which they say is strong enough to be used for industrial purposes but able to biodegrade in soil within 50 days. The ...

Despite research finding a higher prevalence of eating disorders among Aboriginal youth in Australia, new research from Edith Cowan University (ECU) has revealed a lack of culturally specific and ...

International researchers suggest there is a link between a person's IQ at age 18 and their risk of developing alcohol use disorder (AUD). The team looked at close to 600,000 people from the Swedish ...