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Critics have portrayed ECT as a form of medical abuse. Yet many psychiatrists, and more importantly, patients, consider it to be safe and effective. Few medical treatments have such disparate images.
For over two decades, psychologists and communication scholars have been seriously studying the degree a person is able to correctly understand another’s unsaid thoughts or feelings.
Most passengers have no idea how bad air travel is for the environment.
New research confirms puppies respond better when we talk to them in a certain way.
There is no evidence supporting claims that cooking or heating food in the microwave can give you cancer or food poisoning.
A restaurant in New York is offering a pizza topped with caviar, stilton cheese and gold leaf, with each bite costing around US$50.
Atoms manipulated to be 4000 times larger than usual may be the tool dark-matter hunters have been waiting for.
'Denial of service' cyberattacks are increasingly used to shut down websites. New research reveals that 911 call centers are vulnerable to the threat as well.
Not finding your 'soulmate' can lead to more than a broken heart.
Small changes can make a big difference to your quality of life without denting your social life.
Forget about oil or gas – you should be worrying about the less discussed but far more concerning fact that the world is running out of clean, drinkable water.
The festive season is an intense time of year. Neuroscience can shed some light on what it does to our brains.
A new highly sensitive detector is being built one kilometer underground in a gold mine to detect the elusive dark matter.
The same chemical reaction is behind the frothing of milk in your cappuccino and the whipping of egg whites in sweet meringue.
NSW is about to embark on the largest and most definitive clinical trial ever of medicinal cannabis for chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting.