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An Australian researcher is part of the NASA team working to see if there are signs of previous life on the red planet. After eight and a half months travelling millions of kilometres, NASA’s $2.5 billion ($2.37 billion) rover Curiosity ...

Union and community action is building in Melbourne’s east as students and businesses fight to save the Swinburne campus. Thousands of protesters in Melbourne have marched on the office of local state Liberal MP Christine Fyffe where they presented a ...

Women with large breasts have a higher incidence of breast cancer than those with average-sized breasts, according to a West Australian study. The latest research shows women with large breasts may be more likely to suffer breast cancer because there ...

An area the size of China will probably be covered by cities within 50 years and up to 1 billion hectares of land is likely to be cleared to feed the world, say concerned environmental scientists. They warn against overconfidence ...

The latest shooting massacre in the United States has revived the gun control debate, but neither President Barack Obama nor Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is pushing for tougher laws. The issue of gun control has been a hot topic ...

Trampolines with no springs or hard edges are much safer for children, a team of researchers has found Non-traditional soft-edge trampoline design can reduce injuries by 30 to 80 per cent, according to a new study led by play equipment ...

Research coming from the nation that introduced fast food to the world, saying it’s better to be fat than thin, has reignited the weight war. Antonia Maiolo reports An Australian scientist has criticised as “confusing” a US study that found ...

The Vatican has stripped one of Latin America’s top universities of the right to call itself Catholic or Pontifical, saying it has damaged the interests of the church. The University in the Peruvian capital, Lima, has been locked in a ...

The latest course to be offered by the University of Edinburgh is a little out of this world Charles Cockell, a professor of astrobiology, is set to teach a free online course called Astrobiology and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life ...

The Solomon Islands Government has announced plans to open a university within 12 months. A bill to turn the Solomon Islands College of High Education into a national university will be discussed in the next parliamentary sitting. Prime Minister Gordon ...