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 ...

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 ...

When now-Prime Minster Scott Morrison brought a lump of coal into parliament in 2017, pleading “don’t be afraid, don’t be scared, it won’t hurt you,” he made a critical error. That is, assuming he wants the Coalition to retain power at ...

If cleanliness is next to godliness, according to a new study, additionally, orderliness is next to academic success. Taking showers and eating meals at standard intervals could enhance your GPA, the Journal of the Royal Society Interface research suggests. Though the results ...

Don’t get entranced by dazzling headlines: overall, Australian university graduates are still limping towards meaningful employment. “New graduates are still less likely to get a full-time job than a decade ago…” a new Grattan report provides. Mapping Australian higher education ...

Despite Hollywood’s (increasing) portrayal of brilliantly successful autistic savants – from Rain Man to The Good Doctor – the reality of employment for those with autism is the opposite. ABS data suggests just 40 per cent of people with autism work, compared to 83 ...

Front-line victims of the replication crisis have been identified by New Zealand and American scientists: studies themselves. Colin Camerer, Brian Nosek and their colleagues from Massey University, America’s Center for Open Science, and Caltech, attempted to reproduce the findings of 21 social science ...

Single Mensa society members may reconsider bragging about it. A new University of Western Australia study has shown that although people prioritise intelligence in a mate, there’s such a thing as being too intelligent to want to pair with. The same ...

We need to talk about Kevin. Kevin Khatchadourian is a 15-year-old boy who committed a massacre at his high school and killed his father and sister. Growing up, he exhibited early signs of psychopathy: chronic unrest during infancy, failure to bond ...