The education sector can learn a lot from the health area about the faster use of research and technology. I called in to a health conference to make a contribution and at once was struck by the extent to which ...

More than $310 million in Australian Research Council (ARC) research grants for more than 1000 projects were allocated last week by Innovation Minister Kim Carr.  The money goes on projects as diverse as parenting interventions, better wine production and efficiency ...

A number of universities spread around the nation are collaborating to assist in the response to fires, floods, hurricanes and quakes. The Innovative Research Universities group has been set up because Australia’s sensitivity to climate change is combining with an ...

They are hailing Steve Jobs as the 20th century Edison. Some argue there can be no comparison between electricity and the i-device; others that Jobs’s conversion of the computer into an individual, domestic device has been a revolution, write Francesca Beddie, ...