What does concussion do to the brain?
Feb 18, 2016 04:32 am UTC| Health Sports
News that actor Will Smith will boycott the Oscars has overshadowed promotional coverage of his latest film, Concussion, which examines the effects of repeated head injury. In the film, Smith plays the real-life...
Can man live by potatoes alone?
Feb 17, 2016 14:04 pm UTC| Health
In the film The Martian, Matt Damons character, Mark Watney, is stranded on the red planet with nothing to eat but spuds. Now, a 36-year-old Australian is following the same diet, voluntarily. In an attempt to lose...
Hidden housemates: meet the moulds growing in your home
Feb 17, 2016 08:59 am UTC| Health
Home alone? Hardly. Our homes are positively swarming with creatures of all kinds. In our new series, well be profiling the hidden housemates that live with us. Our offices and homes are full of airborne spores from...
Do Wi-Fi and mobile phones really cause cancer? Experts respond
Feb 17, 2016 08:07 am UTC| Health
On 16th February, Catalyst aired an episode on the ABC titled Wi-Fried, hosted by Dr Maryanne Demasi, claiming that radiation from mobile phones and Wi-Fi may constitute a brain cancer risk. We invited experts who have...
New app helps people with neurological conditions practise speech
Feb 17, 2016 08:02 am UTC| Health Technology
Researchers at CSIRO and University of Queensland have developed an app called Harlie that is designed to chat with humans. Unlike Siri and Google Now which are designed to answer specific questions Harlie is designed...
AIDS: how far the world has come and how far it needs to go to get to zero
Feb 17, 2016 07:59 am UTC| Health
Foundation essay: Our foundation essays are longer than usual and take a wider look at key issues affecting society. There is no story in global health as transformative, awe-inspiring, and yet as tragic as the AIDS...
No, pesticides are not causing microcephaly in Brazil.
Feb 17, 2016 07:28 am UTC| Health
The explosive expansion of the range of Zika virus in the Americas has only been exceeded by the rise of conspiracy theories blaming everything from vaccines to genetically modified mosquitoes. While not a conspiracy...
Gabon: post-coup dialogue has mapped out path to democracy – now military leaders must act
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects