A new national survey has found career stability and funding are two key factors turning young scientists away from research.
It’s argued that building research capacity helps clinicians to provide better care, and health outcomes, for their patients in rural and remote areas.
The Victorian government has announced major reforms intended to reduce harm caused by poker machines, but the gambling industry won’t accept these changes quietly.
With an unavoidable reduction in research output, women are forced out of science at earlier stages in their careers.
Teens have been through a lot in the pandemic, and things won’t simply go back to normal as the nation opens up. Here’s how to support their mental health during the transition.
Researchers are exploring the medical frontier of psychedelics, and their use in facilitating psychotherapy for common mental illnesses.
Could psychedelic drugs provide the next big breakthrough in psychiatry? This episode of the ‘What Happens Next?’ podcast considers the regulatory, cultural and scientific aspects of psychedelic treatment for mental illness – and how innovation in this area could improve the lives of millions of people.
For only the second time in 60 years, a drug has been approved for the treatment of lupus, a debilitating form of rheumatic disease.
The English astronomer and navigator Thomas Harriot died in 1621, leaving behind 8000 pages of notes containing a trove of unpublished scientific discoveries.
A research centre will bring together philosophers, psychologists and scientists to unravel the mysteries of the human mind.
We’re kicking off Series 4 of What Happens Next by looking back, way back. This time we’ll ponder what happens if we stop exploring natural history – what would we lose?
Dr Nicolas Bonne, a vision-impaired astronomer, is translating scientific information into forms that can be experienced by the blind and vision-impaired through experimenting with 3D printing and soundscapes.
When Monash University announced world-first COVID-19 research in July, the crucial behind-the-scenes work of a group of PhD students went largely unnoticed.
A team of researchers is examining how nature's "superfood" is digested, with potentially life-saving results.
In our last episode, we pondered a world without art and now we hear from two people who push the boundaries in fields you wouldn't normally consider creative.
How likely is it that we'll have a relatively quick fix for COVID-19, and what are the hurdles?
Vast amounts of satellite data gives us an unprecedented ability to map the extent and severity of fires, but we're not exploiting it – yet.
As COO of New York’s Green Bank, Caroline Angoorly is helping the city achieve its 100 per cent renewable electricity grid.
A water electrolysis breakthrough has huge potential to make hydrogen generation more economically viable.
Ten years ago, politicians would routinely voice disdain for climate science. Now, while the policy debate remains fierce, the battleground has shifted to economics and jobs.
Innovative treatment approaches to compulsions and addictions are the focus of the new neuroscience research lab, BrainPark.
We need to move past biased, opaque models for energy policies.
Will the icy wilderness we know today survive, or will it succumb to climate change and human pressure? Our choices over the coming decade will seal its fate.
Unless you suffer from coeliac disease, a gluten-free diet may be doing you more harm than good.
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