Cairns molecular biologist Dr Rob Walker is working with an international research team to develop a vaccine to prevent cats from infecting humans with dangerous parasites.   The James Cook University scientist is focusing his research on Toxoplasma gondii, a ...

Could robots be the football champions of the future? Forget Rooney, Ronaldo and Pirlo, a new breed of champion “footballers” has arrived and, who knows, it could be just the thing for Australia’s A-league. Bolts, Nuts and Sparksy from Plymouth ...

Developers working on an advanced search engine want to employ public security cameras but there are concerns about privacy. University of Glasgow researchers are developing a new kind of web search engine to solve more complex queries. The computer scientists ...

Photographic technology is zooming ahead, with US researchers developing a camera with a resolution thousands of times greater than standard SLRs. Scientists at Duke University have built a prototype camera that can capture images with resolutions of up to 50 ...

An Adelaide Uni professor says we will have nuclear power in 18 years but a colleague begs to differ. Antonia Maiolo reports.   A leading climate scientist from the University of Adelaide says Australia will rely on nuclear power for ...

U.lab is a physical space with an online presence that showcases its work as a creative powerhouse at the University of Technology, Sydney. The brainchild of Dr Jochen Schweitzer, a senior lecturer at the business school, u.lab gets students to ...

Respondents to an ATEM study have called for a “good practice” site to be used for the development of leadership in higher education. By Geoff Scott and Linda McKellar. In 2010, the Association for Tertiary Education Management (ATEM) proposed a ...

Zero to 9000 unique browsers in two months suggests that the topic of Parlour – gender inequity in the world of architecture – has hit a nerve. Parlour [http://www.archiparlour.org/] is the result of research by a team lead by Dr ...

The scheme to boost the computer capacity of the nation’s universities is ploughing ahead, with some help from the UK. By Beverley Head reports. The first three nodes of the $50 million Research Data Storage Infrastructure (RDSI) project are about ...

The newest tool for online professional engagement is creating a buzz among educators, reports Natasha Egan. Professional development for teachers is about to get a whole lot easier, with the launch of a new online games-based tool where teachers from ...