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Universities to review defence research ties in peace offering to pro-Palestine campers
Some pro-Palestine encampments are dissipating at universities that promise to more transparently disclose their academic and research ties to Israel.…
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EduTECH 2019: How analytics and AI are closing the ‘feedback loop’
Analytics and AI are combining to provide fantastic insights into “student learning and progress”. While today's learning platforms can provide…
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‘The Block’ co-host does video promo for apprenticeships
Learning a trade could help you become many things, including a TV star. That’s the message from the federal government…
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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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Music video to smash STEM glass ceiling
A bold audio-visual project aimed at highlighting the attractiveness of a STEM career for young women had its worldwide launch on…
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Sydney Conservatorium hosts rap musical adaptation of ‘The Odyssey’
One of Australia’s oldest music schools will host a sold out performance of students and a slam poet rapping an adaptation…
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Floodwater is no place for driving a car
With reports that Sydney’s Warragamba Dam may soon burst, and with parts of Victoria and Queensland bracing for storms and floods,…
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Gene-based medicine centre to open at ANU
A centre dedicated to using a person’s own genes to cure their illness will soon be set up at the Australian…
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Finkel joins Australian Academy of Science
Australia’s Chief Scientist Alan Finkel has jokingly cited his having “being born with the science gene” as a key factor…
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Quantum computing team makes breakthrough as PM heaps praise
It’s an exciting time to be in quantum computing. On the very same day that Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull described University…
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Student bodies stand up for fossil-fuel divestment
A group of students got naked and took to the rooftops to call for their university to drop fossil fuel…
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UA, ‘The Hunting Ground’ team up against sexual violence
Universities Australia and The Hunting Ground Australia Project have launched a sector-wide campaign to prevent sexual violence. The Hunting Ground Australia…
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Eureka! Einstein’s gravitational waves found
Scientists said they had, for the first time, detected gravitational waves, ripples in space and time hypothesised by physicist Albert…
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‘Bionic spinal cord’ heads for human trials
A device implanted in a brain blood vessel may one day enable people with spinal cord injuries to walk again, University…
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Long-awaited return to Antarctica near for UQ researcher
An academic will explore Antarctica on an icy hunt for dinosaurs. This isn’t the plotline for a Jurassic Park spinoff; but…
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Planet 9 fever: scientists scramble for names, theories
Evidence of a ninth planet in Earth's solar system, recently discovered by California Institute of Technology researchers, has sent the space…
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A blessing from the sky for Curtin researchers
Curtin University researchers got a late Christmas present from the heavens, recovering a meteorite from outback South Australia on New…
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For mosquitoes, love hertz
James Cook University researchers have discovered that sex sells – even for mosquitoes. Brian Johnson, senior research officer at JCU’s School…
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Australia has plenty to show the world’s international programs
Australian universities can teach other countries a thing or two about how to attract international students. The benefits of international…
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