Researchers have found a potentially life saving treatment for people who have suffered a heart attack, thanks to a deadly Arachnid. A team from the University of Queensland used a drug developed from the venom of the deadly Fraser Island ...

A team of international education researchers has released a study that details the challenges performing arts teachers and their students face during periods of lockdown and remote learning. The study, led by Associate Professor Susan Davis of CQUniversity Australia and Associate ...

A group of Sydney teenagers have been busted staying at a holiday home on the NSW south coast, where they met during the university holidays. Police visited a rental home at Catalina, near Batemans Bay, on Wednesday and found eight teenagers, aged ...

University of Sydney staff could receive six weeks off annually for gender transition leave if its academic union can get the case across the line. The new entitlement would mean that university staff seeking gender transition or affirmation leave could ...

New research by RMIT and Bolton Clarke has found a way of predicting whether a wound needs extra management, offering an early alert system for the most chronic wounds. Published in the Nature journal Scientific Reports, the study shows that analysis of thermal images ...

Following in the footsteps of Movember, one charity’s highly successful renaming of a month in the name of men’s health, come two alternative names for January to promote different, food-based causes: Regenuary and Veganuary. The second of these has been ...

There has been much to think about in universities in the last 18 months, adjusting to short-term emergencies such as campus closures, shifts online and revenue hits.   There has also been cause to reconsider how universities are set for the ...

A senior Sydney academic who has admitted to writing one threatening letter to herself has denied responsibility for an alleged fake hate mail campaign, despite an admission in a text message that she had “cracked”. Former University of Technology dean of science ...

New research from the Australian Catholic University has refuted the common stereotype that schoolboys prefer reading non-fiction, magazines and comics instead of fiction in a finding that is being touted as “significant” and “unexpected”.  The study, which included 300 students ...

The recently released global Science Report by UNESCO is a timely and stark reminder of the role of innovation in the COVID-19 world. This 736 page tome is a both a retrospective and agenda-setting document, conducted every five years, highlighting ...