A group of students got naked and took to the rooftops to call for their university to drop fossil fuel "ass-ets". Others got a meeting with their vice-chancellor, and some were questioning institutional thought leadership. It was all in a week's work ...

Universities Australia and The Hunting Ground Australia Project have launched a sector-wide campaign to prevent sexual violence. The Hunting Ground Australia project is a philanthropic effort to end sexual assault and harassment in Australia’s universities. It takes its name from critically ...

Scientists said they had, for the first time, detected gravitational waves, ripples in space and time hypothesised by physicist Albert Einstein a century ago. The landmark discovery opens a new window for studying the cosmos. Researchers said on Thursday they detected gravitational ...

A device implanted in a brain blood vessel may one day enable people with spinal cord injuries to walk again, University of Melbourne researchers have announced. Limbs wouldn't be reactivated, but the person's direct thought might be able to control equipment ...

An academic will explore Antarctica on an icy hunt for dinosaurs. This isn’t the plotline for a Jurassic Park spinoff; but what one University of Queensland paleontologist will be doing from February 2 through March 24. Dr Steve Salisbury is part of a 12-person ...

Evidence of a ninth planet in Earth's solar system, recently discovered by California Institute of Technology researchers, has sent the space science community into a spin – and imaginations are once again looking out to the stars. Caltech astronomers Mike Brown, and ...

Curtin University researchers got a late Christmas present from the heavens, recovering a meteorite from outback South Australia on New Year’s Eve. Planetary geologist professor Phil Bland had to dig the meteorite out of a 42cm-deep hole in the salt bed of Lake Eyre ...

James Cook University researchers have discovered that sex sells – even for mosquitoes. Brian Johnson, senior research officer at JCU’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, and JCU professor Scott Ritchie, dengue fever expert, have set out to make a cheap ...

Australian universities can teach other countries a thing or two about how to attract international students. The benefits of international study are many and varied. For students, an international education provides the opportunity to become a truly global citizen – ...