Hacker News
- Getting a Covid jab is safer than taking aspirin https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/getting-a-covid-jab-is-safer-than-taking-aspirin 53 comments
- Ever wonder what your dog is thinking? https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/ever-wondered-what-your-pet-is-thinking 14 comments
- Starving the bacterium that causes pneumonia https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/starving-the-bacterium-that-causes-pneumonia 3 comments science
- Our psychological bias against people and things we consider ugly is tied up in a built-in human response that’s designed to alert us to objects that may contain potentially harmful diseases. Some human faces considered ugly, ugly animals, and — to a lesser degree — ugly buildings elicit disgust https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/the-ugly-truth 86 comments science
- New Research finds that people are more likely to say something they regret when they’re not relaxed https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/why-do-we-say-things-we-later-regret 23 comments science
- Linear A was a VSO language https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/how-do-you-crack-the-code-to-a-lost-ancient-script 16 comments linguistics
- Many women are abused during childbirth - New research shows that more than a third of women in four low and middle-income countries are being mistreated when giving birth in health facilities. The highest risk of physical and verbal abuse being between 30 mins of birth until 15 mins after birth. https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/many-of-the-world-s-women-are-mistreated-during-childbirth 459 comments science
- Heart disease and stroke mortality rates have almost stopped declining in many high-income countries, including Australia, and are even increasing in some countries, according to new research. https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/are-declines-in-cardiovascular-disease-mortality-ending 6 comments science
- But how else will I get my annual training?! https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/how-neuroscience-beats-powerpoint-coma?utm_source=twiter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=story 4 comments army
- A new brain scanning technique reveals how changes in white and grey matter seen in schizophrenia are actually linked https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/schizophrenia-mapping-how-the-brain-changes?utm_source=twiter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=story 4 comments science
- What the past can tell us about the future of climate change: Study finds century-scale climate variability was enhanced when the Earth was warmer during the Last Interglacial period (129-116 thousand years ago) compared to the current interglacial (the last 11,700 years) https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/what-the-past-can-tell-us-about-the-future-of-climate-change 3 comments science
- Why the James Webb Space Telescope is the most complex space telescope ever built https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/getting-it-right-the-most-complex-space-telescope-ever-built?utm_source=twiter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=story 10 comments space
- Strains of bacteria have developed increased tolerance to the alcohols in hand sanitizers, which requires hospitals to rethink how they protect patients from drug-resistant bacteria. https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/is-this-the-end-for-alcohol-handwash-in-hospitals 722 comments science
- Researchers have uncovered a whole new class of drug compounds with the potential to completely stop the proliferation of specific cancers like leukaemia and liver cancer, and maybe help keep other cancers in remission https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/putting-cancer-cells-to-sleep?utm_source=twiter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=story 15 comments science
- CEO salaries are often highlighted as an example of widening income inequality, but that singular focus misses the other equally important ways big business fails to contribute to a fairer society https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/don-t-blame-inequality-just-on-the-fat-cats 248 comments science
- How did a cockatoo reach 13th century Sicily? By Dr Heather Dalton, University of Melbourne https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/how-did-a-cockatoo-reach-13th-century-sicily 3 comments history
- Why Shakespeare still matters according to Melbourne University lecturer https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/why-shakespeare-still-matters?utm_source=twiter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=story 5 comments books
- How did an Australasian cockatoo reach 13th century Sicily? A discovery in the Vatican Library in Frederick II of Sicily's falconry book reveal a medieval world that was surprisingly interconnected. https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/how-did-a-cockatoo-reach-13th-century-sicily?utm_source=twiter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=story 189 comments history
- Research finds holding a position of power can unleash your inner narcissist, rather than the other way around. Thoughts? https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/it-s-official-power-creates-a-narcissist?utm_source=twiter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=story 7 comments philosophy
- The right leadership style is key to fostering self-motivated employees and workplace well-being. A controlling leadership style is restraining and suffocating, whereas an autonomy supportive style is empowering, irrespective of national culture, finds new research (meta-analysis, n=32,870). https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/want-to-lead-self-motivated-employees 15 comments science
- New study of 500 women with surgically confirmed endometriosis, found that, contrary to popular belief, endometriosis is not associated with thin body types, instead the majority of patients have a body-mass index (BMI) in the healthy range. https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/busting-the-myth-that-endometriosis-is-a-skinny-woman-s-disease 3 comments science
- New research on the long-term effects of removing tonsils and adenoids in childhood finds that the operations are associated with increased respiratory, infectious, and allergic diseases. The study provides even more evidence to support possible alternatives to surgery when possible. https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/what-are-the-long-term-health-risks-of-having-your-tonsils-out 21 comments science
- In a world first, Melbourne scientists have discovered how the most important cancer-preventing gene, called p53, stops the development of lymphoma – and potentially other types of cancer https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/our-cancer-preventing-genes-revealed 334 comments science
- Removing tonsils and adenoids in childhood increases the long-term risk of respiratory, allergic and infectious diseases https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/what-are-the-long-term-health-risks-of-having-your-tonsils-out 8 comments science
- There's a flesh-eating bug that has caused a localised epidemic in Australia. Experts can't tell people how to avoid it because they don't know what's causing it. https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/australia-s-flesh-eating-bug-outbreak-needs-urgent-research?utm_source=twiter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=story 5 comments science
- [Analysis] This is not a drill: 5 facts about the South China Sea https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/this-is-not-a-drill-5-facts-about-the-south-china-sea?utm_source=twiter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=story 4 comments geopolitics
- New research has discovered why some people aren't immune to the flu even after being vaccinated. The main difference was whether the jab successfully recruited three specific kinds of blood cells to the fight: T follicular helper cells, antibody-secreting cells and memory B cells. https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/but-i-got-my-flu-shot-why-the-flu-vaccine-works-for-some-and-not-others?utm_source=twiter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=story 4 comments science
- Raw chicken linked to paralysis in dogs https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/raw-chicken-linked-to-paralysis-in-dogs 16 comments science
- The probiotic Lactobacillus reuteri may help treat colicky breastfed babies less than 3 months old. Study has found that the probiotic is twice as likely as a placebo to reduce crying by 50% after three weeks of treatment for colicky babies who are exclusively breastfed. https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/the-probiotic-hope-for-colic 9 comments science
- Researchers in Australia decrypt government health data https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/understanding-the-maths-is-crucial-for-protecting-privacy 4 comments crypto
- The entire Tasmanian tiger’s genome has now been sequenced, revealing the apex marsupial predator was in poor genetic health and may have struggled to fight disease had it survived. Thylacines went extinct in 1936. https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/secrets-from-beyond-extinction-the-tasmanian-tiger 3 comments science
- More sleep, less bad behaviour - New research finds adequate sleep may minimise the impact of many childhood behaviour problems https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/more-sleep-less-bad-behaviour 68 comments science
- In a breakthrough hydrodynamics, researchers have demonstrated the seemingly impossible: a ball that sinks in water with almost zero drag (and proving the 18th century d’Alembert’s Paradox) https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/life-s-a-drag-unless-you-live-in-a-bubble?utm_source=twiter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=story 421 comments science
- Our adaptive immune systems can take days to become fully effective, meaning infections can take hold. Researchers are working on being able to put our innate immune systems on 'high alert' to prevent things like influenza and the common cold. https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/stopping-the-flu-before-it-takes-hold?utm_source=twiter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=story 5 comments science
- Cleaning out ‘rust’ from the brain could be a way to slow and even prevent Alzheimer’s. The discovery that high iron levels in the brain can lead to the onset of the devastating disease may pave the way for a treatment. https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/rusty-brains-linked-to-alzheimer-s 13 comments science
- New research has found high iron levels in the brain can lead to the onset of Alzheimer's - paving the way for new treatment options. https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/rusty-brains-linked-to-alzheimer-s?utm_source=twiter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=story 7 comments science
- Looks like the photon beaming thing is less about teleportation as it is about the quantum internet https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/photon-teleportation-less-beam-me-up-more-007?utm_source=twiter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=story 8 comments science
- A new compilation of worldwide data reveals most complete picture of climate change ever. Key greenhouse gases are higher now than they have been over the last 800,000 years. https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/key-greenhouse-gases-higher-than-any-time-over-last-800-000-years?utm_source=twiter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=story 114 comments science
- Almost 150 years after Charles Darwin first proposed a little-known prediction from his theory of sexual selection, researchers have found that male moths with larger antennae are better at detecting female signals. https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/darwin-was-right-females-prefer-sex-with-good-listeners?utm_source=twiter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=story 321 comments science
- For 4 years straight a medical researcher was on call 24/7 anytime lung surgery happened in her city so she could receive samples of fresh tissue. Her work discovered stem cells that make mistakes in repairing DNA as a likely culprit of a major lung cancer. https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/caught-the-cell-behind-a-lung-cancer 435 comments science