Lifestyle and the ‘lag effect’:What’s causing the rise of early onset cancer

Lifestyle and the ‘lag effect’:What’s causing the rise of early onset cancer

Since 1990,cancer in people aged 18 to 49 has increased by 80 per cent worldwide. But why?

  • bySarah Berry

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Frozen in fear:Sleep paralysis is more common than you think

Frozen in fear:Sleep paralysis is more common than you think

It’s a condition most people will experience at least once in their lives,yet it remains woefully under-researched.

  • byNell Geraets
University investigates papers by top Australian cancer researchers after retractions

University investigates papers by top Australian cancer researchers after retractions

The University of Newcastle has launched a review into several scientific papers co-authored by two leading researchers after integrity concerns were raised.

  • byLiam Mannix
Albanese defends $1b start-up bet as Queensland support wavers

Albanese defends $1b start-up bet as Queensland support wavers

The contentious $1 billion project relied on federal and state co-operation,but the new Queensland government is sceptical.

  • byPaul Sakkal andDavid Swan
Melbourne team helped solve the mystery of a killer skin disease

Melbourne team helped solve the mystery of a killer skin disease

A man facing likely death from his own immune system has been saved by an experimental,AI-powered therapy co-developed by a team at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute.

  • byLiam Mannix
Light exposure can alter your lifespan by up to five years

Light exposure can alter your lifespan by up to five years

A large new study has found that people with the best light-exposure patterns live longer than those with poorer patterns.

  • bySarah Berry
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The frightening new links between air pollution and our health

The frightening new links between air pollution and our health

Air pollution has been linked to peanut allergies,ADHD and memory problems,with male brains particularly susceptible.

  • byAngus Dalton
One in seven science papers is not to be trusted,says new science paper

One in seven science papers is not to be trusted,says new science paper

Such a high level of fraud presents an “existential threat to the scientific enterprise”,the paper says.

  • byLiam Mannix
‘It’s almost beyond belief’:Findings blast Australia’s biggest carbon offset scheme

‘It’s almost beyond belief’:Findings blast Australia’s biggest carbon offset scheme

The scheme under question is the fifth-largest nature-based carbon abatement scheme in the world,making the adverse findings of global significance.

  • byMichael Bachelard
Doctors had their phones checked at a Sydney conference. The results were filthy

Doctors had their phones checked at a Sydney conference. The results were filthy

There’s a reason this geneticist wipes his phone fives times a day.

  • byAngus Dalton
The potential wonder drug,the ‘whistleblower’ scientist and the fateful Balmoral dinner

The potential wonder drug,the ‘whistleblower’ scientist and the fateful Balmoral dinner

Professor Shaun Jackson has spent 30 years developing what could be a revolutionary stroke drug. But human trials have been derailed amid a Federal Court dispute.

  • byAngus Thomson