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New blood test could bring in law for minimum hours sleep needed to drive

New study suggests risk of crashing could double if driver slept for less than four or five hours in previous 24 hours

The Independent UK

New blood test could bring in law for minimum hours sleep needed to drive

New study suggests risk of crashing could double if driver slept for less than four or five hours in previous 24 hours

The Independent UK

Sleepy drivers could soon be prosecuted for getting behind the wheel while tired

A new blood test could pave the way for legislation against tired motorists who cause car crashes due to a lack of sleep

Manchester Evening News

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Sleepy motorists could be blood tested and prosecuted in future for driving while tired

The move could eventually mean that a lack of sleep could be proven as a cause of a crash

Chronicle Live

New blood test could open door to prosecuting tired drivers

It could mean, for the first time, that a lack of sleep could be detected as a cause of an accident

Wales Online

Blood test for sleepy drivers could pave way for prosecutions

Exclusive: Research comes amid evidence that driving on less than five hours’ sleep is as dangerous as drink-driving

The Guardian - UK

Experts divided on ethics of testing and punishing tired drivers

Development of biomarkers to detect sleepiness could affect the way we use vehicles – and even how we work

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Program partners with NASA, aiming to produce the 'first-ever Indigenous Australian astronaut'

Five Indigenous students are to head to the US to intern at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory as part of the new National Indigenous Space Academy program.

ABC News

Margaret Bowman obituary

Other lives: UK-born academic and writer who moved to Australia in 1959, becoming an expert on local government and communities

The Guardian - UK

Burnet Institute defends COVID mask mandate study after scientific journal's Expression of Concern

Scientific journal PLOS ONE has raised concerns about "weaknesses" in a Burnet Institute study that examined the effect of mask mandates on Victoria's second COVID-19 wave in mid-2020.

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The GP weight loss 'diet replacement plan' found to keep size down 'for years'

The best person to help you lose weight may actually be your family doctor.

Daily Record

‘Algebra under air raids’: the children in a Ukraine war zone who attend class in Australia

Since the invasion, students have logged on to the Monash University virtual school from bomb shelters and bedrooms

The Guardian - AU

Robot recruiters: can bias be banished from AI hiring?

A third of Australian companies rely on artificial intelligence to help them hire the right person. But studies show it’s not always a benign intermediary

The Guardian - AU

Calls to prioritise women's mental health with more targeted funding and treatments

Australia's mental health services and treatments are largely "gender blind". Is it time for a new approach?

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Reformed NSW gambler helping others recover from addiction to poker machines

It is 22 years to the day since Maria felt the familiar rush of dopamine after feeding her last $50 bill into a poker machine.

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Deflating the myths of inflation

Factors that influence inflation and cost of living are varied but identifying genuine ones can help policymakers prioritise key solutions.

ABC News

Positive masculinity program at Brighton Grammar School aims to create respectful men

For more than a decade, an all-boys school in Melbourne's leafy south-east has worked to create a program to develop its students into "respectful men".

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Lousy buildings and a heat pandemic a lethal combination

Properly designed and built homes deliver so many ‘win-wins’ that could end our ‘heat pandemic’ it’s a mystery there’s not more of them.

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Can you name a heart attack symptom? Subtler signs put women at risk

A new study from Monash University found that one in five adults in Australia can’t name any heart attack symptoms.

The Guardian - AU

Superb fairywrens more likely to help family members in distress than strangers, like humans

Beloved Australian songbird will risk life and limb for its breeding group but ignore cries for help from unfamiliar birds, scientists say

The Independent UK

Scientists discover how to make electricity ‘out of thin air’

Huc enzyme means ‘sky is quite literally the limit for using it to produce clean energy,’ researchers say

ABC News

Melbourne scientists find enzyme that can make electricity out of tiny amounts of hydrogen

Scientists have isolated an enzyme from soil bacteria that can convert air into electricity, which they say could be developed into a renewable power source for small devices.

The New Daily

Australian scientists discover a ‘natural battery’ that generates electricity from ‘thin air’

A “natural battery” – an enzyme that can convert air into electrical energy – has been found by Monash University researchers.

The Independent UK

Scientists discover how to make electricity ‘out of thin air’

Huc enzyme means ‘sky is quite literally the limit for using it to produce clean energy,’ researchers say

Salon

How bees & AI help farmers

The confluence of bee monitoring via cameras and AI is ushering in a new approach for farmers

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