A new machine learning tool has identified more than 250,000 cancer research papers that may have been produced by so-called “paper mills”. It found more than 250,000 papers with writing patterns ...

The assistance of artificial intelligence for routine mammograms means more cancers are picked up, and fewer diagnoses are made between screens, according to international research. 100,000 women in ...

US researchers have breathed a sigh of relief after successfully keeping a patient alive for 48 hours without lungs. In their new paper, the team describe an artificial lung system that they used to ...

A QUT-led study has found how increasing aridity and habitat variation and the subsequent emergence of grasslands shaped the evolution of modern kangaroos and wallabies. Modern kangaroos did not ...

People who experience traumatic events in childhood or adulthood may face a higher risk of developing dementia or having a stroke later in life, according to research in China. The team compared the ...

A prostate cancer treatment that aims to target the cancer without as many side effects has shown promise in a trial of 100 patients, according to Australian researchers. Treating the whole prostate ...

A new national analysis finds that almost a quarter of Aotearoa's peak electricity use could be shifted to off-peak hours. This could save the country $3 billion in power generation and infrastructure ...

Danish scientists say we tend to buy healthier foods after starting to take glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs) - the class of diabetes and weight loss drugs that includes Ozempic and ...

US scientists say cancer deaths among the under 50s dropped for every type of cancer between 1990 and 2023, apart from colorectal cancer. The team looked at US health records for the period, during ...

Near-weightless conditions can mutate genes and change the physical structure of bacteria and phages (viruses that infect bacteria), altering regular interactions, according to US scientists. Bacteria ...

In 2025, Earth's oceans stored the highest amount of heat since records began, according to international and NZ researchers who studied ocean heat content and sea surface temperatures around the ...

New research has pinpointed the cellular mechanism responsible for driving the long-observed sex differences in chronic visceral pain. Recently published in the journal Science, the international ...