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Gay panic defence no excuse for murder: SA report
In 2003, Tasmania became the first state in Australia to repeal the use of "gay panic" as a provocation defence;…
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Fish and microbeads study becomes fishier
Did you or someone you know shun microbeads, common in skin exfoliants, last year? If so, it was probably due…
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Scientists lack consensus on the March for Science
In 2017, vaccines are falsely linked to autism; homeopaths make millions of dollars from snake-oil treatments they claim can cure…
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$6 million boost for Monash partnership with children’s hospital
Monash University’s partnership with Melbourne’s Monash Children’s Hospital has been given a $6 million boost to allow medical students to…
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Political leaning predicts science bias
Small ‘l’ liberals are drawn to blue-sky research, while conservatives are interested in applied science, new research has concluded. The…
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UniSA crowdfunding research into suicide prevention, stroke recovery and feral cats
The University of South Australia is pitching its research to the people via a newly announced crowdfunding project. The research…
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One-third of suspected predatory journals appoint ‘Dr Anna, a fraud’ as editor
One-third of predatory academic journals, targeted in a sting operation, appointed an editor named Dr Anna O Szust, whose name,…
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Publish or perish a minor issue, research reveals
A meta-analysis of research literature has thrown into question the commonly held assumption that science exists in a culture of…
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WSU study plants seeds of doubt in climate models
A new study from Western Sydney University has found that Australian eucalyptus trees can’t store as much carbon as previously…
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Billionaire teams up with research centre to help vulnerable kids
When billionaire businessman and philanthropist Andrew Forrest comes knocking, you open the door. That’s what Perth’s Telethon Kids Institute did,…
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Academics and government spar over sugar tax
It sure is a sticky issue: in the wake of two recent reports advocating for the imposition of a sugar…
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US spy money funds Aussie research into human reasoning
The University of Melbourne and Monash University have received multimillion dollar grants from a US government intelligence agency to conduct…
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Monash receives $27 million to help people in slums
Monash University has been given $14 million to boost the health of people living in slums around the world. The…
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UC enters STEM education research partnership with Samsung
Electronics giant Samsung and the University of Canberra have entered into a research partnership to find out how spatial reasoning…
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Teens prefer print over e-books: study
New research shows teenagers still enjoy the age-old practice of sitting down and reading a hard-copy book. The preliminary findings of…
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UTAS receives $2 million for arts hub
The University of Tasmania has received a $2 million boost to an upcoming performing arts centre, with the potential for…
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Report shows industry-sponsored research may be biased
The first of a series of studies may confirm the belief that food industry-sponsored research is more likely to favour the sponsors,…
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Top women researchers honoured in productivity awards
The inaugural Women in Research Citation Awards were presented this week at the Australian National University, honouring the top dozen early-…
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Meet the recipients of Australia’s top science honours
A cane toad pioneer, an innovator who developed a $100 million software program that detects stock market fraud, a researcher…
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Future graduates will need litany of skills for casual work: research
The university graduates of 2025 will be need to be socially intelligent, subject matter experts, independent learners, highly innovative, creative,…
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ADHD linked to a trajectory of disadvantage
University of Queensland researchers have linked ADHD and conduct disorder (CD) to a trajectory of disadvantage, as these children are…
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Islamophobes know little of Islam, research finds
The preliminary findings of a Deakin University study suggest that the key to fighting Islamophobia is teaching people about Islam.…
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ANU physicists’ achievement like something out of ‘Star Wars’
Star Wars: The Force Awakens villain Kylo Ren and a team of physicists at the Australian National University have something…
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Local anti-jail programs lack scientific rigor: study
An evaluation of 108 interventions aimed at keeping young people out of jail has found that only 13 target the…
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Medicine side effects often left out of published studies: research
Almost two-thirds of possible side effects go unreported in peer-reviewed articles about medical drugs and other treatments, a study has…
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