Fresh Science

Children aged between four and six who have imaginary friends are better able to get their point across than their contemporaries who do not

Researchers at Prince Henry’s Institute in Melbourne have discovered how an extra copy of a gene halts the process of becoming a boy. Their work may lead to earlier diagnosis and better management of a condition known as disorder of sex development (DSD) whereby one in 4500 babies is born with ambiguous or incomplete genital…

A technique which measures the variation in bone density within spinal bones may improve the ability to identify people at special risk of breaking their backs, Curtin University physiotherapist Andrew Briggs has found.

During the past four decades, the oceans have been soaking up heat, expanding and rising at a rate about 50 per cent faster than previously estimated by the IPCC, a team of Australian and US oceanographers has found.