Indigenous youths are becoming more educated, and are thereby helping to Close the Gap, according to a new report from the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER). Increased Indigenous vocational completions are driving this change, though they remain behind ...

The Australian Animal Health Laboratory, which hosts research into exotic livestock diseases, is just one facility flagged for upgrade under the government’s new National Research Infrastructure Roadmap. In it, chief scientist Dr Alan Finkel, the Roadmap’s chairman, identified nine research ...

Did you or someone you know shun microbeads, common in skin exfoliants, last year? If so, it was probably due to a widely-reported study, published in esteemed journal Science, that found these tiny plastic particles harmed damselfish larvae. Now, following ...

Electronics giant Samsung and the University of Canberra have entered into a research partnership to find out how spatial reasoning can improve STEM education. Spatial reasoning refers to a person’s ability to visualise three-dimensional objects. For example, one uses spatial ...

The innovation debate has been hijacked by the tech start-up space, the federal assistant minister for industry, innovation and science told a conference. Speaking at the University of New South Wales’s Innovation Summit, Craig Laundy said discourse on how to ...

With the University of Sydney strengthening its ties with China, as demonstrated by the opening of its first Chinese address at the beginning of November, USYD’s vice-chancellor has sought to play down concerns that Chinese soft power could be influencing ...

Chinese technology brand Huawei hosted its Asia-Pacific Innovation Day – which is actually two days – labeled 'The Brilliance of Exploration in Sydney', on November 2–3. Speaking on the importance of science and co-operation was University of Technology Sydney deputy vice-chancellor, research, ...

The first of a series of studies may confirm the belief that food industry-sponsored research is more likely to favour the sponsors, though there is insufficient evidence to make a firm conclusion. The research, published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, analysed ...

The Australian Research Council has allocated $416.6 million for 989 new research projects in the latest wave of federal government research funding. Monash University was the biggest winner in this round, with $47.9 million to be pumped into its coffers for ...

The inaugural Women in Research Citation Awards were presented this week at the Australian National University, honouring the top dozen early- to mid-career Australian women researchers. The list was compiled by Clarivate Analytics, formerly the intellectual property and science branch of ...