Quitting smoking with the help of a smartphone app could be almost 3 times as effective as trying to quit with no support, and using an app alongside traditional interventions like nicotine ...

New research has pinpointed the cellular mechanism responsible for driving the long-observed sex differences in chronic visceral pain. Recently published in the journal Science, the international ...

The Research and Development Tax Incentive was introduced in 2019 to encourage business innovation through a 15% tax credit on eligible research and development expenditure. A report looking at its ...

Australian researchers have discovered a hidden climate superpower of trees. Their bark harbours trillions of microbes that help scrub the air of greenhouse and toxic gases. It’s long been known that ...

It turns out profanities aren't just fun, they may actually be a secret superpower, boosting your strength and staying power, according to UK scientists. They say this may be because cussing helps us ...

Assessing teens' personalities to identify those most at risk of addiction to drugs or alcohol could allow effective early intervention and help keep them on the straight and narrow, according to ...

Subsidies for green technologies (‘carrots’) may help in the short-term, but punishment policies like charging for carbon emissions (‘sticks’) are likely needed as well to greatly reduce CO2 emissions ...

Korean scientists investigated three popular chatbots people turn to for medical advice - ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude - to see if they could be made to dish out dodgy recommendations when the prompts ...

Treatment with semaglutide can reduce the time spent in hospital for patients with cardiovascular disease who are overweight or obese, according to Australian led research. The analysis of previous ...

The bacteria causing travellers' diarrhoea vary in their susceptibility to key antibiotics, depending on which country they come from, according to new international and Australian research. The study ...

Women who have had the HPV jab are less likely to encounter high-grade vulvovaginal lesions - precancerous growths on the vulva and vagina - according to Swedish scientists. They looked at the health ...

A drug used to treat cold sores, which targets the herpes virus, has shown no benefit in treating people with early stage Alzheimer's disease, despite recent studies suggesting a link between the ...