A pioneer in neuroscience credited with the critical discovery of brain stem cells 23 years ago fears a scarcity of funding could affect future breakthroughs. Professor Perry Bartlett, the founding director of the Queensland Brain Institute, lamented the fact that ...

Fossilised rodent urine has helped researchers make a crucial climate discovery. Australian National University scientists have created a coherent picture of abrupt climate change at the end of the last Ice Age. During this period, Antarctica suddenly stopped warming and ...

Quality ratings are meaningless if the process for evaluating research is easily subverted. By Peter Drummond We try to regulate many things in modern life, and often wonder at the total perversity that results. Yet the answer is simple. Just ...

The fact that environmental standards are included in the Trans-Pacific Partnership at all is progress, a law expert has said. The TPP is a 12-country trade agreement with the stated goal of supporting economic growth, creating more jobs and raising ...

Domestic students' demand for Open Universities Australia’s MOOCs is soaring. Open2Study, OUA’s MOOC provider, has reported 36 per cent of its students are Australian – doubling since September last year. India and the US are Open2Study’s two leading international markets but ...

A majority of Australians agree climate change is happening, but their reason seems to depend on the political party they support. A five-year survey of almost 17,500 Australians by the CSIRO found that 78 per cent believed the earth's climate ...

Studying the languages and cultures of Australia’s neighbours must become an education priority, an expert has said. Dr Jane Orton, from the University of Melbourne Graduate School of Education said Australian students – throughout the whole spectrum of education – ...

Cancer sufferers are three times more likely to have memory loss than people without the disease, a new study has found. The impairment in cognitive function - memory, concentration and multi-tasking - for those with bowel cancer was the same ...

The NSW Government's multimillion-dollar program to prevent radicalisation will backfire, a University of Sydney expert has warned. The Baird Government announced this week it plans to spend $47 million on combating extremism in schools. The program features training teachers and staff ...

The authors of a new report indicating that Australian universities are using billions in teaching revenue to subsidise research have questioned the benefit to student learning or services. The report, The Cash Nexus: how teaching funds research in Australian universities, released ...