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An Australian astronomer who detects asteroids heading our way has lost his project funding.  World-renowned astronomer Rob McNaught, who has discovered more than 400 comets and asteroids, may have to desert his watch over Southern Hemisphere skies. McNaught, the only ...

A Sydney student who competed in a Mandarin competition in China believes the best way to know a country is to learn its language. Competing in the finals of an international language contest, University of NSW law student Andrew Blackie ...

Journalism education has lost one of its staunch activists with the passing of journalist and scholar Professor Anne Dunn. The former ABC journalist and pro-dean (academic) of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney died ...

Limiting the time you spend seated could add years to your life, new research claims Scientists from Louisiana University in the US have discovered that adults who are seated for a maximum of three hours a day could add an ...

The pro vice-chancellor for global reach and attrition prevention waits in the vice-chancellor’s office with the dean of job readiness, awaiting the VC’s return from a session with a Gestaltian therapist. PVC: Look; I think I got away with it ...

The University of Adelaide is launching a program to help its students turn their innovative business ideas into reality. The ThincLab Online Commercialisation Accelerator is being developed by the university’s Entrepreneurship, Commercialisation and Innovation Centre (ECIC), and will be run ...

University of Queensland academics say that a cheeky grin can improve your level of happiness and those of the people around you – and improve people’s health and wellbeing.   Professor Ottmar Lipp, a senior research fellow in psychology who studies ...

The United States is losing its cutting edge in innovation, an economic survey of the country has claimed. The report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris says that fissures are appearing in the US economy, in ...

As the chilly winter winds blow across Adelaide, spare a thought though for Torrens University (Laureate Education Asia), which is still homeless. Amongst much fanfare, honorary chancellor Bill Clinton launched the new university last October by video link. Yet the ...

Victorian TAFE funding cuts have caused Swinburne University of Technology to shut its Lilydale campus. More than 1000 TAFE students will be affected by the closure, which will also result in 240 staff members losing their jobs. Courses in hospitality, ...