Would you rescind an award if the recipient included ‘racy’ photographs in a presentation? The Herpetologists’ League would. The American society of amphibian and reptile researchers revoked renown turtle researcher Richard Vogt’s Distinguished Herpetologist award. This followed an audience outcry, largely on Twitter, for ...

Competing researchers don’t usually co-author discussion papers – unless, perhaps, they’re discussing their rivalry. Such is the case with Jacob Corn and Jin-Soo Kim. On Monday, the genome editing researchers (from the University of California, Berkeley and Seoul National University respectively), ...

Legendary: Game of Heroes is a free “intense and strategic puzzle role-playing game,” its developer, N3twork, provides. “Build a team of legendary heroes, go on quests and defeat monsters. Your Legendary adventure begins today!” Although aimed at players aged 12 ...

When the Golden State Killer, who committed at least 12 murders, 50 rapes and 100 burglaries in California from 1974 to 1986, was finally caught in April, law enforcement and forensics experts celebrated. Naval veteran Joseph James DeAngelo was arrested after DNA, ...

A medical researcher has warned countries like China are eclipsing us in terms of research integrity mechanisms. Professor David Vaux, deputy director and joint division head at Melbourne’s Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, claims this is because the revised Australian ...

Minister for Education and Training Simon Birmingham has named four of six members of an expert panel charged with reviewing Australia’s Qualifications Framework (AQF). The panel was set up to examine changes in the nature of work and developments in ...

‘Just do it’ has been a mantra for entrepreneurs for decades. However, the question remains as to whether or not it is possible to teach and learn entrepreneurship. If yes, then what is the best way to teach it? Does a ...

Feral cats are raising a skink with the discovery that they’re mass reptile killers. Researchers from the government’s Threatened Species Recovery Hub, which comprises 10 universities and the Australian Wildlife Conservancy, analysed around 10,000 cat dietary samples. What they found shocked them. ...

Picture a cube. People will likely have varying responses to this command. For some, the cube will be large. They might imagine that it’s floating. Others will use their answer to infer something about their personality through an online quiz. But for ...

A small farm on the outskirts of Bacchus Marsh, about halfway between Melbourne and Ballarat, is the birthplace of a self-described ‘unlikely entrepreneur’. But it took decades for Alan Manly to get to that point. The managing director of Sydney-based private tertiary ...