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A quarter-century-old speed record for electric cars has been smashed by a group of UNSW engineering students with a sleek-looking car dubbed ‘eVe’. The record, measured as an average speed of an electric car travelling a distance of 500km, was ...

The promise of a greater focus on links between research and industry and a new science council to advise government are at the centre of long-awaited reforms to the research sector unveiled yesterday. The new measures, announced by the industry ...

Social media-fuelled body image anxiety is putting an increasing number of teenage girls off the idea of sports participation,  research from Flinders University has shown. Based on interviews with 75 girls aged 13–17, researchers led by associate professor Claire Drummond ...

Cyclists who break road rules say they do so for safety, research has found. A survey-based study carried out at UNSW suggested that urban bike paths are often incomplete or disjointed and councils and urban planners need a greater focus on improving the overall ...

A 1970s-era, Finnish-designed, completely refurbished flying saucer has officially opened as the centrepiece of a $10 million project at the University of Canberra. Now open for staff and students as an interactive meeting space, the plastic and fiberglass structure is one of a ...

Graduating with a bachelor's degree from Australia’s prestigious sandstone and technology universities results in just 6 per cent higher earnings than other institutions over a 40-year career, research has shown. The analysis, Grattan Institute higher education director Andrew Norton released yesterday, indicates that ...

Both anecdata and anecdota are cousins of anecdote, a 17th-century loanword from French that goes back to the Greek word anecdoton, meaning “something unpublished”. The earliest English citations have it in the plural form anecdota and glossed as “secret history/histories” ...

Professor Allen Rodrigo has been announced as the new director of the Research School of Biology RSB at ANU’s College of Medicine, Biology and Environment. Along with his present role as professor of biology at Duke University in the US, Rodrigo ...

University of Western Sydney deputy vice-chancellor (education) professor Kerri-Lee Krause has been named Victoria University’s new provost. Prior to her present role – which she will vacate in mid-January – Krause has been pro vice-chancellor education at UWS and held ...

UNSW acting vice-chancellor professor Iain Martin said he believed Hoffman was capable of building on the achievements of his predecessor. new NCVER MD worked in SA public service Dr Craig Fowler will replace Rod Camm as the managing director at ...