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Fall in support for COVID-19 vaccine could risk jeopardising herd immunity: survey

Just over one quarter of Australians are unwilling or uncertain about getting the COVID-19 vaccine, potentially delaying achieving herd immunity, insights from the latest Taking the Pulse of the Nation Research Insight reveal.

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Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences

18 Feb 2021

Immune system protects children from severe COVID-19

Children are protected from severe COVID-19 because their innate immune system is quick to attack the virus, a new study has found.

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Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences

17 Feb 2021

Treating vision loss globally would see social and economic benefits

An estimated 1.1 billion people were living with untreated vision impairment in 2020, but researchers say more than 90 per cent of vision loss could be prevented or treated with existing, highly cost-effective interventions.

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History and Politics

16 Feb 2021

Australian leaders recognised for their role in our world-leading pandemic response

Unsurprisingly, Australia’s COVID-19 response has featured heavily in weighing the nominees to be shortlisted for the 2020 McKinnon Prize in Political Leadership.

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Business and Economics

16 Feb 2021

Children of same-sex parents outperform others at school

Children with same-sex parents outperform other children on multiple indicators of academic achievement, new research shows.

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Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences

16 Feb 2021

Heartbeat secrets unlocked as cardiac rhythm gene role identified

Researchers have used the zebrafish (Danio rerio) to identify the role of a gene involved in cardiac rhythm, which could help explain the fundamentals of what it takes to make a human heartbeat.

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Science and the Environments

15 Feb 2021

First humans in Tasmania must have seen spectacular auroras

Drilling a 270,000-year old core from a Tasmanian lake  has provided the first Australian record of a major global event where the Earth’s magnetic field ‘switched’- and the opportunity to establish a precedent for developing new paleomagnetic dating tools for Australian archaeology and paleosciences.

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Business and Economics

12 Feb 2021

Strong support for COVID vaccine; financial stress and mental distress remain high

Australians welcome the COVID-19 vaccine but levels of mental distress and financial stress remain high, particularly among the young, according to the latest Taking the Pulse of the Nation survey.

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Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences

11 Feb 2021

Mapping an effective immune response to COVID-19

Melbourne researchers have systematically mapped the immune response to COVID-19 identifying how antibodies develop in response to SARS-CoV2 and new insights into why some people develop severe disease.

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Engineering and IT

10 Feb 2021

New ways to ‘see’ under melting Antarctic ice shelves for more accurate climate modelling

A breakthrough by Australian climate modelling researchers has led to a deeper understanding of the micro-scale processes that melt Antarctic ice shelves from below.

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