Website profile

Mirage News

Wollongong-based online news outlet covering Australia and beyond. If you have anything newsworthy - a story, video or picture to share with us, please email us. Australia's real-time media portal reporting from primary sources. 24/7 live timeline and coverage of developments firsthand from Australia and beyond

  • 3,100articles · 30d
  • 1+ hour agolatest article
  • Aug 15, 2026earliest in window
  • 81%with images
  • 297avg words
articles per day
Categories
  • Science & Nature 667
  • Health & Wellness 553
  • Science & Technology 531
  • Politics 509
  • Medical 476
  • Crime & Law 468
  • Sensitive Subjects 394
  • Politics2 359

Please confirm you are human

This browser or connection looks automated. Press and continuously hold the control for 3 seconds to enable Google-hosted web results and, when separately allowed, AI-assisted answers.

A successful check enables 100 search requests. Interactive access does not authorize scraping, systematic collection, or reuse of search output.

Hold with a pointer, or hold Space or Enter.

News

Mirage News
miragenews.com > research-uncovers-ketamines-opioid-receptor-1742316

Research Uncovers Ketamine's Opioid Receptor Interaction

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (282+ words) Mirage News Tao Che, an associate professor of anesthesiology at WashU Medicine, and colleagues at the Center for Clinical Pharmacology have uncovered new molecular insights into ketamine's complex pharmacology. Their findings show that ketamine acts on multiple systems and can…...

Mirage News
miragenews.com > nsf-stair-boosts-penn-state-aces-research-1742371

NSF STAIR Boosts Penn State ACES Research Program

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (226+ words) Three CARES modules were integrated into the 2026-27 ACES curriculum, but the collaboration is continuing. The ACES and STAIR teams plan to integrate additional CARES modules as they are developed to fully deploy eight modules into ACES for the 2027-28 program. Jialing…...

Mirage News
miragenews.com > hopkins-team-shatters-neuroimaging-time-barrier-1742239

Hopkins Team Shatters Neuroimaging Time Barrier

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (238+ words) The federally funded research, published in Nature Methods, addresses a long-standing challenge in neuroscience and neuropathology: how to continuously observe biological processes that unfold over hours, days and even weeks in the brain. Researchers say the study demonstrates the ability…...

Mirage News
miragenews.com > can-ketones-help-us-age-better-1742174

Can Ketones Help Us Age Better?

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (1312+ words) UConn Health study looks at extending health span. For Judy Donnelly, participating in a UConn Health research study meant driving from Windham to Farmington, drinking four packets of a supplement each day and undergoing a comprehensive series of tests designed…...

Mirage News
miragenews.com > alphagenome-atlas-maps-genetic-links-to-disease-1742036

AlphaGenome Atlas Maps Genetic Links to Disease

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (418+ words) Mirage News The University of Exeter has collaborated with Google DeepMind, becoming among the first researchers in the world to test a new platform which contain predictions for the effects of 9 billion genetic variants - every single letter change in the…...

Mirage News
miragenews.com > quebec-wildfire-smoke-deforms-forest-moth-wings-1740517

Quebec Wildfire Smoke Deforms Forest Moth Wings

5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (630+ words) Over the course of the summer of 2023, Quebec experienced its worse wildfire season on record. By its end, some 4.5 million hectares of the province's boreal forest were burned. While the effects of the toxic smoke on humans have been thoroughly…...

Mirage News
miragenews.com > womens-health-week-2026-1740293

Women's Health Week 2026

6+ day, 23+ min ago   (236+ words) Women's Health Week (7 to 13 September) is an opportunity to recognise the health needs of women, girls, and gender-diverse people, and highlight the importance of improving access to healthcare across Western Australia. This year's theme, 'Do it anyway', encourages women to…...

Mirage News
miragenews.com > cigarettes-top-cause-of-preventable-fire-deaths-1740071

Cigarettes Top Cause of Preventable Fire Deaths

6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (406+ words) Smoking materials accounted for almost one in four (24%) of fire related fatalities in 2025, where the cause of fire was able to be identified. Since 1 January 2026, CFA and FRV have responded to a combined 252 residential fires involving abandoned or discarded materials,…...

Mirage News
miragenews.com > transurban-at-ipa-partnerships-conference-2026-1739508

Transurban At IPA Partnerships Conference 2026

1+ week, 8+ hour ago   (791+ words) From unsealed regional routes to busy urban motorways, governments across Australia face the big task of maintaining, upgrading, and expanding the roads that underpin Australia's productivity. But as the familiar click of the petrol nozzle is increasingly replaced by the…...

Mirage News
miragenews.com > ten-erc-starting-grants-awarded-to-tum-1738222

Ten ERC Starting Grants Awarded To TUM Researchers

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (424+ words) PD Dr. Ali Maisam Afzali is a junior research group leader at the Institute of Experimental Neuroimmunology (ENI) at TUM and senior attending physician at the TUM University Hospital's Department of Neurology. Dr Florian Dirnberger conducts research in the Excitonic…...