Universities don’t lack innovation, they just don’t share knowledge with one another effectively, the leader of a US network of universities has said. As a consequence, universities frequently double up on research, Bridget Burns said. Burns is executive director of the ...

  Robots will get young people back on the farm, a University of Sydney roboticist has said. Australia’s agriculture sector is facing an ageing population and Australian Bureau of statistics figures show that since 1980, the number of people in ...

More than a third of medical students post inappropriate material, mainly depicting intoxication, to their social media accounts, according to an Australian survey. The voluntary online survey, held during six months in 2013, was completed by 880 of the 16,993 ...

Young tech-savvy workers are more likely to risk computer security systems than their less impulsive older colleagues, an Adelaide researcher says. A University of Adelaide study into different personality traits and computer behaviours says younger tech-savvy employees are more likely ...

A researcher will use supercomputers to power through almost 3000 years worth of calculations in one year. Professor Richard Sandberg, a University of Melbourne aircraft engine expert, has secured the use of Swiss and US supercomputers to do the calculations needed to complete ...

The University of Sydney’s fundraising campaign has reached its goal of $600 million, two years ahead of schedule. With the original goal now realised, INSPIRED’s new target is $750 million by the end of 2017. Tim Dolan, USYD’s vice-principal of ...

The University of New South Wales is set to lead the largest clinical trial into ketamine as a treatment for depression. Doctors and veterinarians use ketamine as an anesthetic. The drug is also used illicitly as a hallucinogen. A $2.1 million grant ...

Half of public datasets provided with scientific papers are incomplete, making a lot of data useless. A study by Australian National University of 100 leading journals in ecology and evolution found more than 50 per cent of their studies' datasets are incomplete, ...

Many parents misjudge their child's weight which can result in them doing nothing to help their kids become healthy. A study published in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health surveyed 4437 WA based parents seeking perceptions about their children's weight. ...

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 ...