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A Chinese researcher has engaged in a monstrous game of Russian roulette if he really has made the world’s first genetically edited babies, Australian experts say. A chorus of international condemnation has erupted after He Jiankui said he’d altered the ...

The American dictionary website, www.merriam-webster.com, regularly features words that are trending in dictionary searches. One recent example was gaslighting – not in the sense of the outdated mode of illuminating our city streets, but in the more recent definition of ...

Spraying sun-dimming chemicals high above the Earth to slow global warming could be “remarkably inexpensive”, costing about $A3.1 billion a year to run over a 15-year period, according to a study by US scientists. Some researchers say the geo-engineering technique ...

Australian neuroscientist George Paxinos has discovered a new, previously unknown area in the human brain. The region, which Paxinos called Endorestiform Nucleus, is near the point where the brain connects with the spinal cord. It’s located in the lower cerebellum ...

A tech giant whose clients include Telstra, Westpac and Australian governments will expand its workforce by 25 per cent by 2020 despite the nation’s IT skills shortage. Indian multinational IT consultancy and services firm Infosys has promised to add 1200 ...

A UAE court has sentenced British academic Matthew Hedges to life in prison on charges of spying for the British government, his family and a state-run newspaper say. The hearing lasted less than five minutes and his lawyer was not ...

Examples of good teaching in the VET sector are largely borne out of personal commitment, rather than systematic professional development. That was one of the findings of thesis work by Flinders University PhD graduate Anne Dening. Dening, who has more ...

Scientists are to start a project which could see new materials created in space with properties that are impossible to develop on earth. The University of Strathclyde-led experiment will be carried out on the International Space Station (ISS) in 2021, ...

Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has announced he’s donating US$1.8 billion ($2.45 billion) to his alma mater, Johns Hopkins University, to boost financial aid for low and middle-income students. The Baltimore university said the contribution – the largest ever ...

The context to any contemporary discussion on student learning and pedagogy is the exponential growth in the influence of the internet over the past 40 years. Subsequently, we must note “the importance of an intentional approach to using the internet ...