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Scientists have developed an artificial skin-like membrane they say can wrap around devices such as smartphones and make them ticklish. The prototype, which has been designed to look like and mimic human skin, responds to different forms of human contact ...

I was delighted recently when, through Commonwealth Minister Dan Tehan, I was asked by COAG’s Education Council to chair a review of how to improve senior secondary pathways into training, future education and work. So, I know, were the other ...

A British charity is bankrolling an international effort to free more of the knowledge housed in education institutions and publishers. The $540,000 project, led by Curtin University, will bring together an alliance of researchers who will work to build universities ...

If you’ve ever done your banking on your phone, had an encrypted conversation over the internet or used a search engine, you can thank Cheryl Praeger for that. The mathematician who this year took out the Prime Minister’s Prize for ...

There is not much doubt that we need a renewal of moral and intellectual leadership in Australia. Where might it come from? Perhaps from surprising places. While we have lots of bright young people committed to positive change, three additional ...

Australian universities will have to tick new research boxes to retain their status should proposed changes to category standards be adopted. The recommendations were made by former Vice-Chancellor Emeritus Professor Peter Coaldrake in his review of the ways higher education providers ...

Senator Jacqui Lambie wants some of the $4 billion in federal money earmarked for drought and flood relief to be diverted to TAFE in Tasmania. The crossbencher, who recently brokered a deal to wipe the state’s historic public housing debt ...

In a joint declaration, climate scientists, physicists, biologists, engineers and others from at least 20 countries broke with the caution traditionally associated with academia to side with peaceful protesters courting arrest from Amsterdam to Melbourne. Wearing white laboratory coats to ...

The adjective woke, in the sense of “being alert to social injustice”, has had a meteoric rise in the last two years. It originated in African-American slang in the phrase stay woke, first recorded in the 1970s. But its usage ...

It’s one of US president Donald Trump’s signature moves – an unusually long handshake. And if his intention is to generate feelings of anxiety among recipients, research out of Scotland has confirmed he’s right on the money. But the University ...