Young Australian tradies are ‘toughening up’ at the cost of their health, experts say.

Fallout from the CFMEU crackdown continues.

A new standard is being created for comparing the energy efficiency of home heaters.

New technology could use PFAS to make better batteries.

The Federal Government says it has secured an additional 22 million bags of IV fluid.

There are calls for a no-fault compensation scheme to be created for vaccine injuries.

The New South Wales police commissioner wants to keep officers away from mental health incidents.

Australia is facing pressure to ban paraquat - a deadly herbicide.

New stats suggest Australia is facing an overdose crisis.

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For the last few weeks we have been bogged down in the very Earthly matters of royalty, budgets, politics, humanity and celebrity - all good prompts to look away, up into the infinite. 

Health authorities, politicians and scientists have been slowly introducing the world to the concept of ‘One Health’ - an all-inclusive approach to health that extends from the human body right through the global environment. 

This year’s Nobel Prizes honour discoveries that unwind our notion of truth, our understanding of ourselves and the human story, the complexities of cells and the very basics of the universe. 

XENOTRANSPLANTATION - sounds like something that would happen to an ill-fated crew member in Star Trek, but it is also a technical term for using non-human parts to treat or enhance our own bodies. 

I am Tim Hall; a red-blooded, beer-drinking, car-driving Australian male who has no interest in watching sports – at least, not the sports played by humans.

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