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Not quite, but nearly. The scientists at the University of Adelaide, together with the CSIRO, have paved the way for it by developing a mechanism that converts carbon dioxide – the principal exhaust pollutant – to a synthetic form of methane. ...

If “innovation means prosperity”, as a new European Union innovation report claims, we’re pretty well-off. The European Commission’s European Innovation Scoreboard 2017, released on Tuesday 20 July 2017, ranks Australia third in the world in innovation. It is preceded by ...

Esteemed doctor and academic John Dwyer has been tapped to head the proposed Murray Darling Medical School, but not everyone’s pleased about it. The idea for the school, a collaboration between Charles Sturt and La Trobe universities, has been percolating for ...

When an ex-Australian Coal Association chairman is afraid of climate change, you know you should be especially so. In Ian Dunlop’s report, Disaster Alley: Climate Change, Conflict & Risk, he argues our political and corporate leaders have failed Australia and, ...

If you have an innovative idea and a spare US $6000, or are lucky enough to get a scholarship, MIT wants you. For the second consecutive year, the world’s top-ranked university has chosen QUT as the host of its Global ...

They’ve done their time. Now, they’ll have the mic. Three out of the four keynote speakers at Deakin University’s Reintegration Puzzle Conference are ex-prisoners. Held in Sydney 21-23 June 2017, it is fittingly themed, Changing Systems from the Inside Out. Professor Joe ...

Despite ugly-looking past figures and rumours that these numbers persist, universities and industry are collaborating just fine. Such is the finding of a report by government body IP Australia. Based on numbers of jointly filed IP applications in 2016, the ...

In a world first study, Deakin University researchers have showed markers can distinguish ghostwritten assignments from genuine ones. Their hit rate for identifying ghostwritten papers, however, was only 62 per cent. Seven academics each blind-marked 20 psychology papers, six of ...

The following does not contain typos: disengaged 24-year-olds cost taxpayers $69 billion over a lifetime. This is one of the major findings of the Mitchell Institute’s new report, Counting the costs of lost opportunity in Australian education. The Institute, based ...

Just glance at the news headlines and you will know that cyber warfare is here, and it's huge. It potentially cost Hillary Clinton the US election, and almost foiled Emmanuel Macron’s French presidential plans. Now, the Australian government is investing ...