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A study on mixing alcohol and energy drinks has thrown up contradictory findings, with young people found to be less likely to partake in risky behaviour. In an online study the University of Tasmania surveyed more than 400 Australians aged ...

Scientists in Australia and Italy have joined forces in trying to produce better quality pasta that’s also good for you. University of Adelaide researchers from the ARC centre of excellence in plant cell walls are working with colleagues from the ...

A project led by the University of Canberra to help guide the application of technology interaction at art galleries and museums has won a prestigious $225,000 research grant. The group headed by Byron Keating, Professor in Service Management, has been ...

The US-based Laureate International Universities has announced a delay in the opening of Adelaide’s new university until at least 2014. The university network’s Asia Pacific managing director, Dr Michael Mann, confirmed the delay but said Laureate was still committed to ...

Monash University philosopher Dr Robert Sparrow says military organisations are funding a significant amount of robotics research that is making war more likely by lowering the threshold of conflict. Sparrow, from the school of philosophical, historical and international studies, in ...

A group of theoretical physicists has poured water on current theories on the creation of the universe and embraced quantum graphity. Researchers from the University of Melbourne and RMIT University suggest our universe began not as a big bang but ...

University of South Australia students are raising their glasses to the introduction of a new wine club that aims to tantalise tastebuds and uncover styles of wine that will soon be sold in Asia. The UniSA Kelosphera Wine Club hopes ...

  “It’s complete nonsense that universities are doing it hard…They’ve had their funding increased by 50 per cent since 2007.” Tertiary Education Minister Chris Evans told The Australian that university vice-chancellors were promoting increases in student fees to pre-empt a ...

We are all part of the bullying problem in a workplace environment, new research shows. A study by Murdoch and Edith Cowan universities sheds light on the roles bystanders play in workplace bullying. To better understand how co-workers can impact ...

A team of scientists from the University of Adelaide and the University of Colorado have discovered a receptor in the body’s immune system that increases people’s addiction to drugs such as heroin and morphine. Both the central nervous and immune ...