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Researchers find more men than women support the use of nuclear energy Australians are almost evenly divided on whether nuclear energy is a viable option, Macquarie University researchers have found. A survey shows 28 per cent of respondents support it ...

ARC gives $30 million green light to 78 linkage and facilities projects A West Australian scientist and his team will construct a $1.2 million ground station so they can participate in an international space mission in 2013. University of Western ...

Plan to create evidence-based data base to help community Macquarie University in Sydney has established a new India Research Centre to address a 30-year knowledge gap it says is harming Australia’s relationship with the Indian subcontinent. The centre will try ...

Less traditional disciplines have not too many things to benchmark themselves against The Australian Research Council (ARC) says some disciplines may see unexpected results when the council releases its first university research rankings early next year. “In the less traditional ...

Photos of indigenous Australians held overseas to be catalogued An Australian researcher is heading to Europe to catalogue thousands of 19th- and 20th-century photographs of indigenous Australians, allowing descendants here to see them for the first time. The images — ...

Finding love may be all about how you tilt your head Leave it to a newlywed husband-and-wife research team to uncover that the way we angle our heads affects our chances of wooing a mate. Human facial attractiveness and what ...

Policy proposition to stem billion dollar losses in international education sector Desperate to avoid industry collapse, international education advocates will petition Immigration Minister Chris Bowen to amend the nation’s student visa program, at an meeting being held in Canberra today, ...

Researchers share emerging evidence on down side of going global Rapid social change appears to be driving a rising suicide rate in Asian-Pacific countries, a suicide prevention conference heard in Brisbane last week. Appearing at the 4th Asia Pacific Conference ...

Fewer researchers heading back home to avail of Australian grants Ten homegrown researchers have been enticed back to Australia by the Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowships, announced at a ceremony in Canberra last week. The number is down on ...

Millions of dollars are being spent on India specific education initiatives International competitors are pouncing on the lucrative Indian student market, with delegations from Canada, the US and the UK descending on the subcontinent in the past two weeks. Observers ...