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Australian research into lighter metals for airplanes is attracting the interest of some of the world’s biggest manufacturers. A team from Monash University is setting the stage for what could be a shift in commercial aviation by creating lighter and ...

Despite Julia Gillard’s great “crusade” on education, the federal government has just announced deep spending cuts that will reduce funding for universities and tertiary students by $1 billion. Almost $500 million will be slashed over the next four years from ...

A planet twice the size of Earth orbiting a nearby star, just 40 light years away, appears to have a surface covered in graphite and diamond. The planet dubbed “55 Cancri e” orbits the binary star 55 Cancri, which is ...

The more chocolate that a country’s citizens eat, the more Nobel prize winners they produce, says an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Columbia University’s Professor Franz Messerli wrote that flavonoids, antioxidants found in cocoa, green tea, ...

The screeching of a knife on a glass bottle has been found to be the worst sound to the human ear by scientists at Newcastle University in the UK. Researchers found that people ranked the sound of a fork on ...

Eating tomatoes may help to reduce to risk of stroke, according to researchers in Finland. The key factor appears to be the antioxidant lycopene that tomatoes are high in. The study, involving more than 1000 middle-aged men, found that those ...

The US navy is bankrolling an Australian scientist’s research to slow hemorrhaging and buy time for emergency response teams.  An Australian researcher who developed a suspended animation drug that could save wounded soldiers has been forced to seek funding from ...

With many different pathways into accounting and business studies it is important to focus on the ethical principles and financial integrity at the heart of the education process. The Australian higher education sector is at an interesting turning point. Never ...

While agreeing with the thrust of the Ernst & Young report, that change is inevitable, the NTEU urges caution over relying too much on online learning. The latest contribution to the future of higher education debate from corporate consultants Ernst ...

The feedback from various groups is illuminating, and humbling, students want opportunity and good amenities but mostly they want to engage with academics. In 2000, Mel Gibson starred in the movie What Women Want. Playing Chicago advertising executive and chauvinist ...