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Yale finds diamond planet
A planet twice the size of Earth orbiting a nearby star, just 40 light years away, appears to have a…
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Academic aims at US gun control
The latest shooting massacre in the United States has revived the gun control debate, but neither President Barack Obama nor…
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SHELL helps train oil & gas engineers at UWA
A new breed of engineering graduates from the University of Western Australia promises to lead the search, recovery and production…
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US falls behind in science, maths graduates
The United States is losing its cutting edge in innovation, an economic survey of the country has claimed. The report…
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Teo says ‘dismal’ research funding needs boosting
A stellar international academic career was not enough to convince the Australian science and medical community of the worth of…
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Tenure becoming untenable
Milton Greenberg writes that the reasons for lifetime academic positions have been eroded in the US with more staff employed…
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American privates on parade
We have dominated the Asia-Pacific campus playground but there’s a bigger kid ready to move in Back in the 1990s…
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