https://phys.org/ en-us Latest news from University of New England Neuroscientists at the University of New England (UNE) have found three distinctive brain patterns shared by people with childhood maltreatment and depression that could provide the launching pad for a new approach to diagnosis and treatment. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-04-biomarkers-depression-diagnosis.html Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:50:01 EDT news694774022 A study published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology has revealed the toxic "forever chemical," PFOS, can accumulate in exposed honeybee colonies and transfer to their honey, threatening pollinator viability, food security, and potentially human health. Conducted by researchers at the University of New England (UNE), the study monitored the effects of chronic sublethal exposure of PFOS on European honeybee colonies, showing prolonged exposure to environmental levels of PFOS changed the expression of some key proteins responsible for cell function in the honeybee. https://phys.org/news/2026-02-pfos-chemical-accumulate-bees-honey.html Environment Thu, 26 Feb 2026 12:00:10 EST news691321682 The growing number of storms and floods associated with climate change is increasing the risk of a serious human infection—and Australia's rural communities are underprepared. That's the stark warning from research led by the University of New England (UNE) in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health. The authors recommend concerted testing of the public for the zoonotic infection leptospirosis, greater vigilance in regions well beyond the tropical north, and further urgent research. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-02-hidden-climate-disease-threat.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 09 Feb 2026 10:26:38 EST news689855162 A faculty member and group of students from the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine (UNE COM) published a study earlier this year with findings that may help relieve pain in pediatric patients following surgery to the chest. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-10-outcomes-patients-chest-wall-surgery.html Surgery Fri, 27 Oct 2023 11:48:03 EDT news617626081 Better use of technology in prisons would improve family relationships, and ultimately, a detainee's prospects of transitioning successfully back into society. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-tech-prisons-transition-society.html Social Sciences Wed, 20 Sep 2023 17:23:03 EDT news614449381 Looking for insights into geopolitics? Eager to learn about foreign policy in the Asia-Pacific region? Don't rely on James Bond films for your education. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-view-stereotypes.html Social Sciences Wed, 20 Sep 2023 17:14:34 EDT news614448871 Women who experience intimate partner violence (IPV) are also at significant risk of developing poor sexual and reproductive health. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-06-profound-health-impacts-violence.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 14 Jun 2023 15:41:41 EDT news605976098 New research from Australia's University of New England (UNE) has revealed using food waste to create commercial chicken feed would not only save the Australian poultry industry an estimated $500 million a year, but it could reduce the country's total greenhouse gas emissions by at least five%. https://phys.org/news/2023-06-chicken-food-slash-emissions.html Agriculture Wed, 07 Jun 2023 16:14:11 EDT news605373248 In recent years, the popularity of professional women's sports has soared. We've seen the expansion of women's AFL, the creation of the women's Indian Premier League in cricket, as well as things like the 2023 FIFA women's world cup and the 2023 women's rugby league season added to the prime-time television schedule. https://phys.org/news/2023-05-underrepresentation-women-high-performance-sports.html Social Sciences Mon, 08 May 2023 16:58:55 EDT news602783932 A University of New England researcher believes young mothers, their children and families swept up in its wake now need urgent support. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-05-effects-global-pandemic-confined-covid.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 04 May 2023 16:47:04 EDT news602437621 Researcher and nurse Dr. Rikki Jones, from the University of New England's School of Health, has documented the experiences of both police and paramedics responding to people affected by methamphetamines in the first study of its kind in Australia. The revealing findings, published in the journal Nursing & Health Sciences and International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, highlight the complex safety issues they face in the fraught hours before hospital admission. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-02-documenting-police-paramedics-people-affected.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 20 Feb 2023 16:43:04 EST news596133781 The world's major writing systems have tended to simplify over time, with a notable exception: New research shows that the Chinese writing system has become increasingly complex over the course of its 3000-year history. https://phys.org/news/2022-11-chinese-complexity-greater.html Other Wed, 23 Nov 2022 04:03:16 EST news588398592 Glenn Stevenson, Ph.D., professor of psychology within the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at UNE, recently published a paper on gut microbiome modulation of inflammatory pain. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-link-antibiotic-inflammatory-pain-reduction.html Medications Mon, 18 Oct 2021 12:34:22 EDT news553779256 The availability of prey and the ability to adapt to changing environments played key roles in the evolution of sharks. A new study, where 3,000 shark teeth were analyzed, provides new insight into how modern shark communities were established. The results are published in the journal Current Biology. https://phys.org/news/2021-10-favourite-food-million-year-chronicle.html Ecology Tue, 05 Oct 2021 11:00:01 EDT news552641978 One of the strangest carnivorous dinosaurs ever discovered has been given a makeover by a pair of Belgian and Australian palaeontologists. https://phys.org/news/2021-09-scientists-reveal-fossilised-skin-bull-like.html Paleontology & Fossils Fri, 10 Sep 2021 04:00:08 EDT news550465204 Chronic pain is a debilitating condition affecting millions of people worldwide. An improved understanding of the pathophysiology of chronic pain is urgently needed. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-chronic-pain.html Neuroscience Wed, 01 Sep 2021 14:51:51 EDT news549726708 Unlike bones and shells, which can endure for millions of years, soft tissues are rarely preserved as fossils. https://phys.org/news/2021-07-decoding-secrets-million-year-old-brain.html Paleontology & Fossils Tue, 27 Jul 2021 07:36:07 EDT news546590151 New research by the University of New England's Palaeoscience Research Centre suggests juvenile tyrannosaurs were slenderer and relatively faster for their body size compared to their multi-tonne parents. https://phys.org/news/2021-04-fat-footed-tyrannosaur-parents-skinnier-adolescent.html Paleontology & Fossils Thu, 22 Apr 2021 03:47:29 EDT news538282043 Fossilised dinosaur teeth uncovered at Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, have offered fresh insight into how these giants co-existed and foraged. https://phys.org/news/2020-10-fossilised-teeth-diversity-extinct-sauropod.html Archaeology Thu, 29 Oct 2020 10:15:55 EDT news523185315 Paleontologists have discovered remarkable evidence of the sensory capabilities in the fossilized skin of a 155-million-year-old carnivorous dinosaur. https://phys.org/news/2020-10-carnivorous-dinosaur-crocodile-like.html Archaeology Wed, 07 Oct 2020 07:07:43 EDT news521273260 How do you weigh a long-extinct dinosaur? There are a couple of ways, as it turns out, neither of which involve actual weighing—but according to a new study, different approaches still yield strikingly similar results. https://phys.org/news/2020-08-dinosaur.html Archaeology Mon, 31 Aug 2020 18:00:01 EDT news518078308 Large brains have long differentiated humans and primates from other mammals and there is a clear evidence that brain mass increased through time. https://phys.org/news/2020-07-human-brain-large-finely.html Evolution Thu, 09 Jul 2020 03:38:45 EDT news513484715 Where did dingoes come from and when? Who brought them and what can this tell us about human evolution on our continent? They are mysteries steeped in time that University of New England (UNE) archaeologist Dr. Melanie Fillios is eager to solve. https://phys.org/news/2020-06-unearthing-dingo-truths.html Archaeology Tue, 23 Jun 2020 04:18:35 EDT news512104700 Fossil footprints discovered nearly 80 years ago in a sandstone quarry at Berowra have been identified as the traces of a four-legged animal swimming in a river nearly a quarter of a billion years ago. https://phys.org/news/2020-05-fossil-footprints-sydney-suburb-earliest.html Archaeology Wed, 13 May 2020 08:04:10 EDT news508575846 Evidence of agile, carnivorous two-legged dinosaurs known as noasaurids have been found across the now dispersed land masses that once formed the ancient southern supercontinent of Gondwana, but never in Australia—until now. https://phys.org/news/2020-01-predatory-dinosaur-added-australia-prehistory.html Archaeology Thu, 30 Jan 2020 05:00:03 EST news499494286 Researchers have uncovered the first baby dinosaurs from Australia. The bones were discovered at several sites along the south coast of Victoria and near the outback town of Lightning Ridge in New South Wales. Some of the bones are so tiny, they likely come from animals that had died while they were still in their eggs. Slightly larger bones from Victoria come from animals that had recently hatched but were probably nest-bound. https://phys.org/news/2019-12-baby-dinosaurs-australia.html Archaeology Thu, 19 Dec 2019 18:00:01 EST news495970153 Australian creatures like the echidna and the koala are celebrated for their oddness. The fossil record shows that this oddity reaches far back into prehistory, as illustrated in the form of a fossil horseshoe crab found in Tasmania that has been renamed by UNE paleontologist Dr. Russell Bicknell. https://phys.org/news/2019-10-oddness-australian-creatures.html Archaeology Fri, 18 Oct 2019 09:00:02 EDT news490584946 New research has revealed that Australia's extinct short-faced kangaroos were a marsupial version of the giant panda, with jaws adapted to browsing woody, poor-quality vegetation. https://phys.org/news/2019-09-jaws-reveal-australia-ancient-marsupial.html Archaeology Wed, 11 Sep 2019 14:00:01 EDT news487391218 Studies of marine microfossils, known as conodonts, have allowed a team of researchers from Australia and China to map extreme global warming which coincided with the most severe mass extinction on Earth approximately 252 million years ago at the end of the Permian period. https://phys.org/news/2019-08-microfossils-extreme-global-environmental.html Earth Sciences Wed, 07 Aug 2019 05:07:36 EDT news484373241 Fossils that had gone unstudied since the early 20thcentury helped a team led by University of New England (UNE) palaeontologist Dr Russell Bicknell to address a long-standing puzzle: were ancestors of the iconic horseshoe crab blind?  https://phys.org/news/2019-08-prehistory.html Archaeology Wed, 07 Aug 2019 05:06:35 EDT news484373169