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Skinks may be much stranger than previously thought after researchers discovered that a lizard lays eggs and gives birth to live young in the one pregnancy. Researchers at the University of Sydney observed a three-toed skink lay three eggs and weeks ...

Australia has copped some crowns in Times Higher Education’s (THE) newest ranking. To nab the top overall spot on the ladder, a university would have to demonstrate its work towards some of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The ...

About 220 Townsville university students have been evacuated after a blaze broke out at a residential building. Paramedics assessed 14 students for smoke inhalation after the fire at the James Cook University campus, but none were taken to hospital. The ...

When Kevin Baird was rushed to a Melbourne hospital after having a stroke, he didn’t expect to become the public face of a world-first treatment. The 67-year-old took part in a trial using stem cell infusions as a possible therapy ...

The government is touting a $7.1 billion surplus in its latest Budget but universities aren’t celebrating. Universities Australia said the surplus was a missed opportunity to reverse cuts to university funding. Chief executive Catriona Jackson said: “It makes no sense ...

Parents routinely roll their eyes any time a school announces a student-free professional learning day for its teachers. Many parents consider these days an inconvenience and struggle to see their purpose. High quality, continuous professional learning (as opposed to one-off, snapshot professional ...

For the first time since 2012, Australia has worked its way to eighth spot on a ranking of national systems of education. Compiled by the Universitas 21 (U21) group of universities and led by University of Melbourne professor Ross Williams, the ranking ...

Half-living, half-synthetic bio-computers will soon be able to reason and multi-task like humans, paving the way for a world where computers can help solve ‘unsolvable’ problems, if QUT researcher Associate Professor Dan Nicolau has his way. Nicolau, who recently published ...

Universities should give more consideration to female academics caring for children, a new paper has argued. One way they could be doing this is by offering financial aid to cover childcare costs for those attending conferences. Another recommendation was that institutions ...

Rivers bigger and more powerful than those on Earth flowed on Mars later in the planet’s history than previously thought, research has shown. The raging water courses carved deep channels into the Martian surface at “hundreds of locations”, said scientists. ...