Most Māori teens living in cities don’t feel strongly connected to their ancestral marae, finds a survey of 360 teens in Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin and Rotorua. Distance and lack of time were key ...

Drug trials generally involve comparing a treatment with a non-active, placebo version, an approach called 'blinding' because patients must be 'blind' as to which they've received for the trial to ...

A pelvic floor workout program, designed for women to practice during pregnancy and after birth, could help women reduce their risk of stress urinary incontinence after having a baby, according to ...

Australia's 60-day prescription policy is saving blood pressure patients millions - but is delivering a fraction of its potential because GPs and pharmacists have been slow to get on board. New ...

Leafy vegetables could be used to extract toxic metals from contaminated soil for use in medical technologies and energy projects. Australian researchers have used powerful X-rays to confirm crops in ...

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Agricultural soils exposed to glyphosate might also be an unexpected breeding ground for hospital ‘superbugs’ according to international researchers. The team collected 68 bacterial strains from a ...

After years of research, international experts have confirmed the discovery of a new chemical reaction, launching new opportunities for rapid advances in a range of fields – from recycled plastics to ...

Hidden deep in the ice of the Weißseespitze glacier in Austria lie records of medieval mining, fires and volcanoes, but these historical snapshots are now at risk of melting away as the planet heats ...

Rising carbon dioxide levels are being detected within the human body, with new research warning that a key blood marker for the gas could near its healthy limit within decades if current trends ...

With plastic pollution reaching hazardous levels around the world, concern is rising about the purity and safety of drinking water. Researchers at Flinders University are working on a novel way to ...

Switching to the 'For You' algorithmic feed may shift a user's political views toward conservatism, according to a 2023 experiment with nearly 5,000 users in the US. The participants were randomly ...