Technology

The obesity explosion that has swept the Western world over the past 30 years may have been caused by a virus, scientists have said. Researchers have discovered new evidence for an illness they have called […] […]

AUSTRALIAN scientists have revealed the most complete picture yet of the way HIV maintains its grip on the body, pointing to new ways to combat it. The Melbourne-based research has explained how the virus hides […] […]

THE sexual revolution was not just a struggle for equal rights; women also had science on their side. A leading neuroscientist has dismissed the “myth” that women’s brains are wired differently from men’s. Gina Rippon, […] […]

American physicist Leonard Mlodinow felt much like a graduate student as he worked with Stephen Hawking on their latest collaboration The Grand Design. “He was teaching me his ideas of the universe and together we […] […]

THOUSANDS more people may be able to have high-tech MRI scans in coming years following the release of a new type of pacemaker that will not go haywire and kill the recipient when the scanner […] […]

SCANS reveal that young drug users have brain damage usually seen only in the elderly MRI brain scans of Perth amphetamine users with an average age of 27 found that 20 per cent had a […] […]

NEW and improved varieties of wheat that will help to feed the world were promised by scientists after the staple food’s genetic code was read for the first time by a British team. The achievement […] […]

It is the second-lightest element in the Universe, has the lowest boiling-point of any gas and is commonly used through the world to inflate party balloons. But helium is also a non-renewable resource and the […] […]