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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 ...

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 ...

Australia is facing “a crisis” in secondary schools as student populations swell and the shortage in maths-qualified teachers continues, according to the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI). In its latest report, entitled Australian Secondary Mathematics Teacher Shortfalls: A Deepening Crisis, ...

Three Queensland universities will be scrutinised for research fraud by the state’s anti-corruption body. The Crime and Corruption Commission Queensland (CCC) has released a snapshot of its planned corruption prevention audits up until 2021. Research fraud was listed as the first ...

“How would you have gone if you had taken your mum to uni, Conor?” recent nursing graduate and mother Lorella McLatchey asks me. As I ponder this, I imagine sitting at the uni bar while my mother stares at me disapprovingly, ...

Fancy speaking with a stranger about your death or theirs over a couple of crumpets and some chai? Talking about the end of life isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, and that’s exactly why two academics decided to set up a ...