Experts have shown that restarting a nuclear reactor is not just a matter of flicking a switch.

Scientists in the US have linked 22 pesticides to prostate cancer, raising fresh concerns for farmers.

FIFO workers’ partners face emotional and physical stress when their loved ones leave.

With mpox cases on the rise across Victoria, health officials are urging eligible residents to get vaccinated.

Australia is getting a CDC, years after facing COVID-19 without a playbook.

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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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