Current evidence suggests three common techniques used during the embryo transfer stage of IVF don't influence the likelihood of a pregnancy, according to a Cochrane review by international and ...

Canadian scientists pooled and re-analysed the data from 11 previous studies on links between pesticide exposure (including herbicides and insecticides) and motor neuron disease, finding that exposure ...

Rising numbers of deer are threatening our native forests, NZ researchers say. Deer eat and damage young trees, harming regenerating forests and meaning bigger trees in old forests won’t get replaced ...

People who spend an excessive amount of time online tend be more stressed, have worse moods and to neglect other parts of life, a new study finds. Every evening for two weeks, researchers sent 900 ...

Gendered sports uniforms play a “major role” in high drop-out rates of teenage girls in sport, according to UK research led by England hockey star Tess Howard, who found that 70% of girls dropping out ...

The federal Agriculture Minister Julie Collins has confirmed Australia's first case of highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu has been detected in Western Australia. The infected bird was found on a remote ...

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and queer people are more likely to have experienced childhood trauma before the age of 18 than their heterosexual peers, according to international research. The team used ...

As a four-day work week is trialled in countries across the globe, health researchers at the University of South Australia say they’re ‘all in’ when it comes to a long weekend, especially as new ...

More than half of NZ's university graduates are overeducated, and they're being hit with a wage penalty because of it, new research shows. The study found that overeducated graduates earn 6.7% less ...

**BRIEFING RECORDING NOW AVAILABLE** Australia's first Clinical Consensus Statement on Obesity and Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is set to recommend new obesity medicines to reduce heart disease risk.

Generative AI technology could create between 1.2 and 5 million tonnes of e-waste between 2020 and 2030, predicts new research in Nature Computational Science. The ...

Slammed by the World Anti-Doping Agency and International Olympic Committee as “utterly irresponsible and immoral”, the Enhanced Games are underway. The games claim to exist to challenge traditional ...