A cane toad pioneer, an innovator who developed a $100 million software program that detects stock market fraud, a researcher looking to re-engineer peptides and protein into cures for diseases, and a conservationist working to help governments to find the ...

The university graduates of 2025 will be need to be socially intelligent, subject matter experts, independent learners, highly innovative, creative, and collaborative; they will need portable skillsets, a solid CV with relevant work experience and new media literacy. All this, plus they will need to ...

University of Queensland researchers have linked ADHD and conduct disorder (CD) to a trajectory of disadvantage, as these children are more likely to drop-out of high school and not enrol in tertiary education. A study published in the Journal of ...

The preliminary findings of a Deakin University study suggest that the key to fighting Islamophobia is teaching people about Islam. The preliminary findings of the Muslims and Islamic Religiosity in the West research project included 57 per cent of 304 survey responses ...

Star Wars: The Force Awakens villain Kylo Ren and a team of physicists at the Australian National University have something in common – they’ve managed to stop light in mid-air. Though, unfortunately, the physicists didn’t use the mystical Force that permeates ...

An evaluation of 108 interventions aimed at keeping young people out of jail has found that only 13 target the multiple factors that lead to teens getting into trouble. The remainder target only individual risk factors, such as alcohol and ...

Almost two-thirds of possible side effects go unreported in peer-reviewed articles about medical drugs and other treatments, a study has shown. “Reporting of Adverse Events in Published and Unpublished Studies of Health Care Interventions: A Systematic Review”, published in the ...

It sounds like a conspiracy theory, but research into deadly diseases often doesn’t get funding because pharmaceutical companies can’t make money out of it. This includes work on cures for malaria, Ebola and the Zika virus. That’s the blunt statement from University ...

The CSIRO has partnered with educational software company Stile, which was set up by Dr Alan Finkel before he became Chief Scientist of Australia, to improve science teaching in schools. Double Helix Lessons from CSIRO is a package of digital ...

The renewal of Canberra’s Mount Stromlo visitor centre demonstrates what scientists need to do to successfully communicate to the public that their research isn't just a waste of money, an astrophysicist has said. The visitor centre's re-emergence completes the renewal of ...