Some of the greatest minds in the world of mathematics will soon regularly set foot on local shores to gather, discuss, propose and expound new ideas, thanks to a partnership between the University of Melbourne and Monash University. MATRIX is ...

Queensland’s climate is a double-edged sword. Whilst enabling the state to develop a thriving and prosperous agriculture industry, climate change and extreme weather have been known for throwing many regions into chaos. This is why drought preparedness has been and ...

A joint university study has reinforced the old adage that the ‘rich get richer and the poor get poorer’ by concluding that Australia’s housing affordability crisis is quickening spirals of disadvantage and advantage. Housing affordability and residential mobility as drivers of locational ...

With reports that Sydney’s Warragamba Dam may soon burst, and with parts of Victoria and Queensland bracing for storms and floods, University of New South Wales engineers have a simple message for any motorist considering driving through floodwater: don’t do it. ...

The universe is possibly on course towards tearing itself to pieces, and a study involving Australian National University astrophysicists may have worked out why. The article, “A 2.4% Determination of the Local Value of the Hubble Constant”, soon-to-be published in Astrophysical ...

Eureka! Again. An international team of 1000 scientists, including 43 Australian researchers from six universities, have proven Albert Einstein to be right, again, by discovering a second set of gravitational waves. These waves were detected after the collision of two ...

University of Melbourne economists have determined that school principals have a direct impact on students’ scores in standardised testing such as NAPLAN. Using Victorian Education Department public school data, economist Dr Mick Coelli and colleagues found that principals who set clear ...

Academic recalcitrance and institutional rivalry could kill the joint University of Melbourne-Monash University commercialisation fund for biomedical research before it even properly begins, one of the brains behind the program has warned. Monash and UniMelb are rivals in the battle ...

Public concerns about nanoparticle sunscreens are misplaced, according to a review that found them safe and effective. The available evidence indicates that nano-materials don’t penetrate the skin’s surface and, in fact, decrease the levels of harmful free radicals in the skin, said associate ...

We’ve all seen ads on TV, in newspapers, splashed across social media, on the sides of buses and on billboards from city centres to the rural outskirts of civilisation. Gambling advertising has become an inescapable ever-present, to the point where ...