New brain research has busted a 75 year-old theory about how humans hear. Distinguished Professor David McAlpine explains how the findings could lead to better voice recognition technology as well as more advanced hearing devices.
An online program to help children and teenagers beat anxiety has been shown to be as effective in the long term as treatment with a therapist, potentially improving access to care while saving families money.
A study published in Nature Reviews Neuroscience in March by an international team including the Woolcock’s Dr Rick Wassing examined research into sleep disorders over more than two decades to prove a good night’s sleep is the perfect remedy for emotional distress.
Plant-based beef performs dramatically better than the animal version when it comes to climate change and land use, but there is no clear winner in the nutrition stakes, according to new research.
An analysis of anonymised hospital records for more than 110,000 people aged over 65 in New South Wales over 11 years has found “a smoking gun” linking delirium and dementia, researchers say.
Substantial changes to Australia’s electricity generation have set the country on a firmer path to reducing carbon dioxide emissions, according to a new report published today in the Medical Journal of Australia.
Summer may be officially over, but here's why you should wear sunscreen every day of the year. Macquarie University general practitioner at MQ Health's Skin Cancer Clinic, Dr Vivianne Xia, explains.
Tiny, transparent fish have made it possible for Macquarie University neuroscientists to observe damaging protein clusters forming in real time, opening the way for testing potential early interventions for motor neuron disease (MND) and dementia.
A three-hour online course covering health and career considerations as well as financial planning can better equip people as they prepare for retirement, researchers have found.
On January 1 it became illegal to import disposable vapes, and while Australia waits for legislation to make selling them without a prescription unlawful, why are young people still taking up the deadly habit?
Nearly one-third of people who died from cancer in NSW between 2014 and 2019 received hospital care that could be classified as “potentially burdensome” in the month leading up to their death, according to a new study.