A cane toad pioneer, an innovator who developed a $100 million software program that detects stock market fraud, a researcher looking to re-engineer peptides and protein into cures for diseases, and a conservationist working to help governments to find the ...

The unprecedented focus on published research and grants for career advancement has generated some contested issues related to who gets credit and why. It is a sad truth that in many ways an academic career today hinges simply on producing ...

University of Queensland researchers have linked ADHD and conduct disorder (CD) to a trajectory of disadvantage, as these children are more likely to drop-out of high school and not enrol in tertiary education. A study published in the Journal of ...

Star Wars: The Force Awakens villain Kylo Ren and a team of physicists at the Australian National University have something in common – they’ve managed to stop light in mid-air. Though, unfortunately, the physicists didn’t use the mystical Force that permeates ...

An evaluation of 108 interventions aimed at keeping young people out of jail has found that only 13 target the multiple factors that lead to teens getting into trouble. The remainder target only individual risk factors, such as alcohol and ...

A University of Sydney child protection and family law expert has argued La Trobe University’s reputation could be damaged by what he called the “academically irresponsible” conduct of its researchers working for the Safe Schools Coalition. Professor Patrick Parkinson has published ...

Almost two-thirds of possible side effects go unreported in peer-reviewed articles about medical drugs and other treatments, a study has shown. “Reporting of Adverse Events in Published and Unpublished Studies of Health Care Interventions: A Systematic Review”, published in the ...

It sounds like a conspiracy theory, but research into deadly diseases often doesn’t get funding because pharmaceutical companies can’t make money out of it. This includes work on cures for malaria, Ebola and the Zika virus. That’s the blunt statement from University ...

In this week's episode of Talking Eds, the team behind Campus Review, Education Review and Early Learning Review dive deep into why intensive parenting is making mums and dads miserable, investigate the crowdsourcing phenomenon shaking up Big Pharma and revel ...

The renewal of Canberra’s Mount Stromlo visitor centre demonstrates what scientists need to do to successfully communicate to the public that their research isn't just a waste of money, an astrophysicist has said. The visitor centre's re-emergence completes the renewal of ...