A consortium of manufacturers aims to fund the sorting and processing of soft plastics for reuse – but critics say it will pass costs on to consumers * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Almost three years after the collapse of the national soft plastics collection and recycling program REDCycle, the consumer regulator is set to greenlight an industry-led replacement scheme. But there are concerns product manufacturers and the major supermarkets will shift the program’s costs onto consumers rather than change their own behaviour of producing and stocking vast quantities of soft plastics that mostly end up in landfill. Continue reading...

In the Albanese government’s first term, Education Minister Jason Clare observed that Australia has one of the most segregated education systems in the OECD. What is deeply shocking – though not surpr...

In young people with recent-onset, clinical type 1 diabetes, 2·5 mg/kg and 0·5 mg/kg ATG reduced loss of β-cell function, showing the potential of an affordable, repurposed agent, ATG, in a low and sa...

Identifying biomarkers of functional β-cell loss is an important step in the risk stratification of type 1 diabetes. Genetic risk scores (GRS), generated by profiling an array of single nucleotide pol...

A dedicated disaster recovery force is needed, or else responders and defence forces could be "overwhelmed" by multiple concurrent natural disasters, the National Climate Risk Assessment warns.

The usual suspects are trying to whip up a scare campaign about immigration and housing. Let’s look at the numbers and put them into context.

Study says small editor group handled many problematic manuscripts — and a Nature investigation finds out who they are.

The need to suppress a patient’s immune system after the transplantation of allogeneic cells is associated with wide-ranging side effects. We report the outcomes of transplantation of genetically m...

The ancestral protein of the CRISPR–Cas9 system — less than half the size of its famous descendant — is engineered into an effective DNA-targeting tool that can be delivered by AAV as an epigenome edi...

Australian workers are feeling exhausted and burnt out and experts believe it may be time to reassess working conditions.

An investigation can reveal the secret history of one of Australia’s top scientists, whose faked data underpins a drug now being given to patients.

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Sediments in a lagoon near Darwin hold traces of changes to monsoonal rains over 150,000 years. Here’s what it means as Earth’s polar ice melts.

We investigated the requirement for programmed death 1 (PD-1) expression by CD4+ T cells in the maintenance of self-tolerance via bystander suppression of autoreactive CD8+ T cells. Using CRISPR/Cas9...

Real world measurements of how much extra heat the Earth is trapping are well beyond most climate models. That’s a real problem.

Zimislecel is an allogeneic stem cell–derived islet-cell therapy. Data on the safety and efficacy of zimislecel in persons with type 1 diabetes are needed. We conducted a phase 1–2 study of zimisle...