While Victorians continue to endure restrictions from a second wave of COVID-19, new research from the University of South Australia is providing much-needed good news about people’s overall health and wellbeing following lockdown.
New University of Canberra research has discovered a reduction in income inequity during the pandemic - meaning the gap between the richest and poorest has shrunk - and they have put it down to increased welfare payments.
UniSA architecture researcher, Dr Julie Collins, suggests that in the current pandemic, there is much to be learned from the design of historical health buildings.
A University of Canberra student has found an alternative to reducing the common skin infection cellulitis by 77%, to avoid the use of repeated antibiotics.
Face pareidolia – the phenomenon of seeing faces in everyday objects – uses the same brain processes that we use to recognise and interpret other ‘real’ human faces, university researchers have found.
Thanks to some generous donors, donations made to Jeans for Genes Day tomorrow, Friday 7 August, will be doubled – and help researchers at the Children’s Medical Research Institute (CMRI) continue their important work in gene therapy.
A new study has found that humpback whales are in significantly poorer health on the tail end of their migration back to Antarctica, when they travel 8,000 kilometres and fast for most of the journey.
The survival rates of eastern quolls reintroduced to the ACT have tripled from 29% to 88%, thanks to an experimental research project led by researchers from the ANU.
University of Canberra physiotherapy student Beth Warner is dedicating her honours project to improve rehabilitation measures for hip fracture patients.
A small change in the testing procedure for gestational diabetes has increased the reliability of the results, researchers from the Australian National University have found.
The process for testing gestational diabetes involves eight...
Females who stopped working during COVID-19 are more likely to have taken on unpaid domestic duties and to have stopped looking for paid work than recently unemployed males, who are far more...
Like it or not, memes now play a huge part in the way we communicate online, particularly for the younger generations, and a researcher from the Australian National University (ANU) has delved...
