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Basic and applied research: a cricketing perspective. By Arun Sharma.per cent held Discovery only and 10.8 per cent held both. The corresponding figures for 2009 are 40.3 per cent, 45.3 per cent and 14.4 per cent. The expansion of the ...

Greening Australia’s apprentices for Indian students wanting to study abroad. Newly released AEI statistics show a 31 per cent annual increase for the quarter to end March in Indian students commencing in Australian education, including a 14 per cent jump ...

Skymapper’s to capture the southern skiespring Observatory. SkyMapper is a custom-built telescope that over five years will undertake the Southern Sky Survey – the first ever systematic digital map of the entire southern skies. In the process, it will produce ...

New device to fight terrorism Pioneers of the world’s first portable explosives “fingerprint” device at the University of Tasmania have received $1.6 million. The research should ultimately help apprehend terrorists responsible for bomb blasts. The team from the School of ...

Inverted chromatin, not carrots, the key to night vision Nocturnal mammals such as mice, cats, deer and lemurs remodel the DNA within their eyes to turn photoreceptor cells into light-collecting lenses, according to an article by scientists from Ludwig-Maximilians University ...

Why cloud computing is the future of technology for the higher education sector. By Beverley Head. Forests have been felled analysing the federal government’s April announcement that it would work with private enterprise to create a company that will invest ...

Visiting Taiwan for a conference, Simon Haines discovers the world’s true globalisers. Taiwan, like Hong Kong, is a small Chinese outrider, living on its wits and taking an anxious pride in its startling economic success and its tenuous political autonomy. ...

The federal government must extend its digital education revolution (DER) program to the higher education and vocational training sectors in order to meet its own education and social inclusion targets, according to a new report funded by the Department of ...

After many attempts, an approach of collaboration and partnership may help Australia strike the right balance in its relationship with its Pacific neighbours right, writes David Lowe. The challenges faced collectively by the nations in the Pacific region are perhaps ...

Preventing cyber-crime, improving nerve regeneration, strengthening poor communities’ economic prospects, managing pain in critically ill patients, studying the effects of smoke on wine country grapevines. They’re among the research topics of this year’s 23 Fulbright scholars. The 2009 Fulbright scholarships ...