Sufferers of a specific type of blood cancer could be spared gruelling chemotherapy regimes thanks to a new test developed in Queensland. The world-first tool helps predict how patients with a specific form of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma - known as Diffuse ...

New research from the University of New South Wales has found that teenagers who smoke cannabis at least once a week are less likely to finish school, enrol in university or get a degree. The study focused on 3600 young people ...

More than 80 per cent of residents in the Ballina region oppose lethal responses to shark bites, a new University of Sydney study has shown. Researchers conducted a representative study of 500 residents in the Ballina state electorate, which includes Lennox ...

Those who sign up and complete MOOCs are getting a genuine return on their time and effort with new research indicating that almost three quarters report career benefits and nearly two thirds reporting educational benefits. An online survey of about ...

University of Sydney researchers are conducting the first-ever count of Australians living alone with dementia, in an effort to better understand their experiences. Estimates suggest almost 70,000 Australians – or a third of people with dementia not in aged care ...

The re-examination of a study that initially found psychiatric drug paroxetine to be a safe and effective treatment for depression in adolescents, has concluded the treatments drug to be ineffective and associated with serious side effects A team of international researchers, led by ...

Psychopathic traits can now be detected in children as young as three with the help of a new diagnostic tool. A team of researchers at the University of New South Wales, led by developmental psychologist Dr Eva Kimonis, has developed tools ...

Scientists from the Australian National University and University of Aberdeen have discovered the world’s longest known continental chain of volcanoes. Named the Cosgrove hotspot track, this chain runs 2000 kilometres from North Queensland’s Whitsunday Islands to central Victoria, and was ...

A study of primary school students with hearing loss has shown children with double cochlear implants performed much better in exams than kids with only one. The University of Melbourne study measured academic performance of 44 profoundly deaf 8-year-olds across Australia ...

An investigation into the reproducibility of results in psychology has found fewer than half of replications produce the same findings as the original study, regardless of the analytic method or criteria. Launched in 2012, the Reproducibility Project: Psychology was an international ...