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University of Queensland academics have voted against the proposed curriculum for the Ramsay Centre’s revised Western civilisation degree. The move by UQ’s Board of Studies of Humanities and Social Scientists (HASS) at a meeting on Monday followed an earlier vote ...

Global sea levels could rise in excess of two metres – causing catastrophic consequences for the world, according to a team of international scientists. Such a rise could result in the loss of 1.8 million square kilometres of land, including ...

Australian universities have missed out on a spot among the top 20 in a ranking of scientific impact, as the list compilers add two new indicators covering “heavily debated” topics. China and the United States dominated the CWTS Leiden Ranking’s ...

Ohio State University in the US has told staff and students that a former doctor committed acts of sexual abuse against at least 177 students over two decades. A 12-month independent investigation found that Richard Strauss committed the abuse between 1979 and ...

A billionaire technology investor has stunned the entire graduating class at a US university when he announced at their commencement he would pay off their student loans, estimated at $US40 million ($A58 million). Robert Smith, this year’s commencement speaker at ...

The electronic media election advertising blackout kicks in at midnight but it won’t save your eyeballs from the blanket of Clive Palmer-yellow online. Experts say the outdated legislation that bans radio and television ads for the 48 hours before election ...

Men struggling with their performance in the bedroom have been told a targeted pelvic work-out could lift more than their spirits. Men who suffer erectile dysfunction (ED) or premature ejaculation (PE) could improve their condition with a simple pelvic floor exercise ...

Opposition leader Bill Shorten is seeing a slightly higher volume of election-related tweets than the Prime Minister. Engagement with Independent candidates this election is almost double what it was throughout all of the 2016 campaign. And #Watergate and questions around Murray-Darling ...

“Hello, Pat. It’s Judy.” That’s how Patricia Watson’s sister greeted her when the two unexpectedly crossed paths at the shops. Watson lives with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) which, as Dr Jo Lane from Australian National University’s Research School of Population ...

Australian scientists have helped shed new light on volcanic eruptions, using Hawaii’s months-long Kilauea disaster that destroyed hundreds of homes. After analysing the eruption on Hawaii’s Big Island beginning in May 2018, researchers from France, the UK, US and Tasmania ...