As summer peaks, so does the incidence of music festivals; a rite of passage for many young Australians. Yet increasingly, these frivolous events are tinged with tragedy. Over the weekend, 19 year-old Alex Ross-King died at FOMO Festival – the fifth ...

With most universities’ summer breaks here, many international students will be hitting the beach – and the casino. That is, if a University of Tasmania report is to go by. A survey of almost 1,400 UTAS students revealed that while domestic students gambled ...

He’s taken on little people. Now, Dr Curtis Roman is tackling the mysterious, serpentine orbs known as Min Min. Particular to Australian outback, particularly indigenous, mythology, Min Min describes a phenomenon of bouncing blue, white or yellow balls of light that ...

I consider myself to be a child of the European Enlightenment. This is not only because of my Irish heritage, but because of my admiration for the development of questions and ideas from Greek philosophers, from the industrial revolution and ...

Who Put the Post in Postcolonial?” A 1998 review bearing this title was published in the journal NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction. Its author, Chadwick Allen, an American English professor, begins by interrogating the various scholarly iterations of the term ‘postcolonial’. There’s ...

‘Put down the paperwork’. It’s an unlikely message from an ethics professor, but Mike Burgess, Chair in Biomedical Ethics at the University of British Columbia in Canada, says that what’s good on paper isn’t always in practice. In Perth to ...

When it comes to your health, sitting ≠ smoking. That’s the crux of a new piece in the American Journal of Public Health, which seeks to correct the media (and science)-driven myth. An international team of researchers, including the University of ...

Do you remember the American corn seed heist of 2013? More kernel than caper, Mo Hailong and six other Chinese nationals were accused of digging up patented GMO corn seeds from Iowa farms and, once concealed in boxes of microwaveable popcorn, attempting to smuggle them to ...

Grants are currently the buzziest topic in Australian higher education. They are also being discussed around UK academics’ proverbial water coolers, thanks to a new Cancer Research UK (CRUK) policy. The policy, drafted by one of the world’s biggest funders of cancer ...

At least 11 auto manufacturers, including Toyota, Audi and Tesla, are putting driverless car plans in motion. With soon-to-be robot drivers comes the need to program ethics in them. Think, a situation like the trolley dilemma, where a driver must choose ...