Researchers at the Australian National University have found that high blood pressure — albeit within the safe recommended range — could hasten brain ageing. Normal blood pressure is defined by pressure below 120/80, whereas an optimal and healthier blood pressure ...

Previous Nobel Prize winners, including Albert Einstein and Hermann Muller, are acknowledged for making some of the most historic contributions in their respective scientific fields, be that physics, chemistry, medicine and physiology.  There have been female Nobel winners too, such ...

When the pandemic hit Australian university campuses in March 2020, institutions were scrambling to transition to online learning. However, as luck would have it, in the first months of 2020, educational designer Frances Cochrane was in the early stages of ...

The succession of restriction-easing announcements from our most affected states, and the case-free landscape in others, adds to the sense that this might be the end of lockdowns. Talk in universities is of fuller returns to campus, and returning international ...

Women in Labor could soon have another alternative for pain relief — water. Researchers at the University of Queensland are conducting research into whether labor pain could be reduced by water injections thanks to a new round of federal funding. ...

An experiment in NSW where dogs and cats were forced to endure being bitten by up to 50 paralysis ticks led to fears of a “disturbing” biosecurity breach, NCA NewsWire can reveal. The experiment, which involved putting the animals into ...

Wage theft accusations are following the University of Sydney again this week, as 80 casual staff allege that they have been underpaid by millions over a six-year period.  Over the last two years more than twelve Australian universities have been, ...

The NSW government has won a landmark Supreme Court challenge to the state’s lockdown measures to combat the Covid outbreak. Two sets of plaintiffs – who all refused to be vaccinated – filed civil suits asking for various aspects of ...

Insurance company William Russell has just released a report on the most empowering countries for females to live and work, with Australia breaking the top 10 in only one of the key indicators: the proportion of women who hold a ...

The University of Sydney is reportedly the latest to “review its real estate portfolio,” amid a trend of selling off non-core property in a hot market. Australia’s oldest university is still evaluating its options that could result in it selling ...