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Betel nut is the fourth most-used psychoactive drug in the world – and new evidence suggests it was being used in Indonesia as long as 25,000 years ago.
Are we optimising too much?
R U OK? Day is Australia’s most recognisable mental health campaign. A study using nine years of data looked at how it affected wellbeing and access to care.
Sea sponges are some of the world’s simplest animals – but even so, the rhythm of night and day kicks off a crucial stage of their life cycle.
Brain implants can change people’s lives during clinical trials, but what happens next can be just as important.
A study of more than 1 million people found genetic influences on the Big Five traits that shape our personality.
A new study has found that Tasmanian tigers had an adaptation found in no living carnivorous mammal.
A new study in twins shows the likelihood of being trans is influenced by your genes.
The discovery challenges a long-held assumption about where and when whales feed – and could help us better protect them.
The review found vapes containing nicotine were more effective at helping people quit cigarettes than these other methods.
Aviation safety is in the spotlight after four incidents at Sydney airport in almost as many weeks.
It turns out these little red dots might actually be evidence of supermassive black holes.
Existence is hard in the frozen Antarctic soil – and microbes use ‘horizontal gene transfer’ to share the tools that keep them alive.
New research interviewing women involved with the federal government’s Pacific Labour Mobility Scheme shows why it needs urgent reform to stop worker exploitation.
New research suggests that with high levels of vaccination and immunity from previous infections, COVID antivirals are no longer working as well.
Brains scans show a signature linked to a dissolved separation between the self and the world.
The way we classify humanity’s ancient relatives is a mess. But there’s a simple fix.
Rather than focusing only on what men should stop doing, we should also pay greater attention to the kinds of men we hope they become.
The Milky Way contains a fossil record of galaxies it has absorbed.
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