In 1699, William Dampier, an Englishman, collected shells and plants from the beaches of the rugged west coast of Australia. These were shipped back to England and ultimately displayed at Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum and the British Museum in London. These ...

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 ...

Innovative Research Universities vice-chancellors’ fellow associate professor Jessica Vanderlelie, based at Griffith University, one of the six members of the IRU, has been the driving force behind establishing the National Innovation Case Study Collection, which comprises over 100 best-practice examples for student ...

This is Campus Review‘s Profile series, in which we visit with an academic or researcher to learn more about them and their work. Zanna Chase has come to Tasmania from Canada, via New York, do learn more about the world’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

It wasn’t a bird, nor a plane. It would’ve been a grey kangaroo-sized giant, flying turkey. A team of paleontologists from Flinders University have discovered the remains of five extinct megapodes – medium-to-large chicken-like birds with small heads – one ...

China’s largest consumer humanoid robotics company, UBTECH, has partnered with the University of Sydney to establish the UBTECH Sydney Artificial Intelligence Centre. Based at the university’s Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies, the centre is dedicated to research into intelligent ...

The who, where and why of higher education attrition have been revealed by the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA), the higher education regulator. Its report details the latest dropout rates (from 2014) for first-year students from 130 providers. The ...