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Researchers say they are close to completing a blood test that can accurately detect the presence of Alzheimer's disease.

Published on: HealthCareer

The next wave of prosthetic teeth could be churned out of a 3D-printer.

Published on: EngineeringCareer

Ride-sharing firm Uber is partnering with military veterans to give returned soldiers a solid job.

Published on: HealthCareer

A $400 million deal has been signed for Western Australia’s first garbage-burning power station.

Published on: GreenCareer

Queensland’s Labor Government has passed new laws that mean unions no longer have to give 24 hours notice before entering a worksite.

Published on: TradesCareer

A new company will soon launch outlets offering a ‘hangover cure’ administered through an intravenous (IV) drip.

Published on: HealthCareer

The world's premier solar car race is rolling out of the Northern Territory, leaving from Darwin onon a 3,000km run to Adelaide.

Published on: GreenCareer

The $16 billion Adani Carmichael coal mine has been approved under a new set of environmental conditions.

Published on: TradesCareer

The shortlist of sites for a new public high school in Perth's western suburbs has been released.

Published on: EducationCareer

In just a few years it will be commonplace for people to have their entire set of DNA sequenced, but many do not want to know what is in store.

Published on: EducationCareer

There has been plenty of bad press about Westpac’s sudden rate hike this week, but Morgan Stanley analysts say it could reach even further than most already fear.

Published on: TradesCareer

National Australia Bank and Commonwealth Bank of Australia are joining a group of 20 global banks in a trial of “distributed ledger” technologies, which use the same “blockchain” approach that underpins bitcoin transactions.

Published on: FinanceCareer

The Federal Government has been accused of storming ahead on plans to impose strict restrictions on Indigenous welfare recipients, by way of a cashless welfare card.

Published on: EducationCareer

The silence has been broken between the two sides of the federal public sector wage deal.

Published on: GovernmentCareer - Federal

A row is forming over the West Australian Government-owned electricity company Synergy’s $100,000 bill for ‘corporate hospitality’ at sporting events.

Published on: GovernmentCareer - State

The Tasmanian Government has been forced to launch a full-scale inquiry into unresolvable conflicts within the Glenorchy City Council.

Published on: GovernmentCareer - Local

The Member for Cairns, Rob Pyne, is taking action on claims of wrongdoing at a number of far north Queensland councils, particularly Tablelands Regional Council.

Published on: ExecutiveCareer

High levels of toxic metals, found in and near mining towns, appear to be negatively influencing the brain development of children living nearby.

Published on: TradesCareer

The Tasmanian Government says it will implement all seven recommendations from a State Service Management Office examination of redundancy payments.

Published on: GovernmentCareer - State

Queensland’s LNP Opposition says the State Government has given extraordinary powers to a union that was key to its election victory.

Published on: EducationCareer

Computer giant Dell is looking to buy data storage company EMC Corp for a mind-bending $US67 billion.

Published on: ExecutiveCareer

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For the last few weeks we have been bogged down in the very Earthly matters of royalty, budgets, politics, humanity and celebrity - all good prompts to look away, up into the infinite. 

Health authorities, politicians and scientists have been slowly introducing the world to the concept of ‘One Health’ - an all-inclusive approach to health that extends from the human body right through the global environment. 

This year’s Nobel Prizes honour discoveries that unwind our notion of truth, our understanding of ourselves and the human story, the complexities of cells and the very basics of the universe. 

XENOTRANSPLANTATION - sounds like something that would happen to an ill-fated crew member in Star Trek, but it is also a technical term for using non-human parts to treat or enhance our own bodies. 

Even though many of us have been forced indoors, the COVID-19 crisis is eroding our privacy.

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