The New South Wales Premier, Chris Minns, has announced a series of reforms aimed at strengthening legal responses to family violence in the state. These reforms come in the wake of the alleged murder of Molly Ticehurst by her former partner earlier this year.…

A new systematic review conducted by the World Health Organization has found no link between mobile phone use and brain cancer. The review, published in the journal Environment International, examined over 5,000 studies and concluded that exposure to radio waves from mobile phones and wireless technologies does not increase the risk of brain cancer.…

Brazil, the country with the fifth largest number of internet users, has recently banned the social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter). The ban came into effect following a dispute between Elon Musk, the owner of X, and Brazil’s Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes.…

Scientists have made a surprising discovery about Earth’s core using a new method of studying seismic waves. They have found a large donut-shaped region around the Equator, a few hundred kilometres thick, where seismic waves travel about 2% slower than in the rest of the core.…

The Paralympic Games, which has become a prominent global event, has its roots in rehabilitation. The first official Paralympic Games took place in Rome in 1960, but its origins can be traced back to 1948 when neurologist Ludwig Guttmann organized the Stoke Mandeville Games in England for veterans of World War II with spinal cord injuries.…

In our quest to learn about the appearance of people from ancient times, computer-assisted reconstructions of their faces have gained popularity. For instance, in 2020, a digital artist used artificial intelligence technology to recreate the faces of Roman emperors in a photo-realistic manner.…