A meta-analysis of research literature has thrown into question the commonly held assumption that science exists in a culture of 'publish or perish'. Meta-assessment of bias in science, published in the journal PNAS, found “little evidence” that biases in scientific ...

Are payday lenders and similar alternate credit sources irredeemable loan sharks or providers or an essential service? Ashton de Silva is an associate professor and economist at RMIT University. He has published a discussion paper titled Housing deprivation or financial debt: ...

Bond University's Centre for Research in Evidence-Based Practice has published a paper in Annals of Family Medicine that details how parents vastly overestimate the effectiveness of antibiotics to treat childhood maladies. The paper's senior author, professor of clinical epidemiology Tammy Hoffmann, ...

A new study from Western Sydney University has found that Australian eucalyptus trees can’t store as much carbon as previously thought, throwing into question the commonly held assumption that planting more trees will help manage climate change caused by greenhouse ...

When billionaire businessman and philanthropist Andrew Forrest comes knocking, you open the door. That’s what Perth’s Telethon Kids Institute did, and together with Forrest’s Minderoo Foundation, they’ve launched CoLab, an initiative aimed at helping vulnerable children by coordinating stakeholders and ...

Universities will receive a share in $1.9 million in funding if the federal government considers them well placed to train cyber-security specialists. Federal education minister Simon Birmingham and Dan Tehan, minister assisting the prime minister for cyber security, have today ...

It sure is a sticky issue: in the wake of two recent reports advocating for the imposition of a sugar tax, Liberal frontbenchers have reaffirmed their opposition to the proposed levy. At a doorstop interview in Tasmania on Tuesday 21 ...

The University of Melbourne and Monash University have received multimillion dollar grants from a US government intelligence agency to conduct research aimed at improving human reasoning. UniMelb has been allocated $24.9 million from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), ...

This is Campus Review's Profile series, in which we visit with an academic or researcher to learn more about them and their work. Alison Shapcott from the University of the Sunshine Coast (USC) has just returned from Madagascar, where she has ...

The University of Queensland has scored $1.2 million for three research projects aimed at helping mining giants become more efficient. And the University of Wollongong was doled out $675,000 into a project that seeks to extend the life of railway ...