The promise of a greater focus on links between research and industry and a new science council to advise government are at the centre of long-awaited reforms to the research sector unveiled yesterday. The new measures, announced by the industry ...

Social media-fuelled body image anxiety is putting an increasing number of teenage girls off the idea of sports participation,  research from Flinders University has shown. Based on interviews with 75 girls aged 13–17, researchers led by associate professor Claire Drummond ...

Cyclists who break road rules say they do so for safety, research has found. A survey-based study carried out at UNSW suggested that urban bike paths are often incomplete or disjointed and councils and urban planners need a greater focus on improving the overall ...

Graduating with a bachelor's degree from Australia’s prestigious sandstone and technology universities results in just 6 per cent higher earnings than other institutions over a 40-year career, research has shown. The analysis, Grattan Institute higher education director Andrew Norton released yesterday, indicates that ...

The earnings of Indigenous Australian university graduates appear to be nearly on par with their non-Indigenous colleagues, according to fresh data analysis by a University of Western Australia researcher. Based on data from Graduate Careers Australia’s annual Graduate Destinations surveys ...

Elite golfers are able to harness and govern their physical motions and psychological processes in order to maintain the feeling of flow, which can enable longer periods of peak performance, new research has shown. Based on a number of in-depth interviews ...

Wild wombats can be captured using anesthetic darts, trapped possums should be released before dawn and captured flying foxes should be transported over short distances in pillowcases hung from poles. These and many more helpful instructions and information regarding the ...

Most. Epic. Hawaiian. Trip. Ever. UNSW's Dr Martha Lenio will soon be virtually cut off from the outside world for eight months – in the name of space research. The PhD graduate and her five-strong crew are set to embark on what will be the longest Mars simulation ...

Despite unanimous expressed support for research workforce gender equity, recent efforts to foster change have much to overcome. By Andrew Bracey Research institutions may soon be forced to prove they meet workforce gender equity policy standards in order to gain ...

With spring and the hay-fever season now upon us, ANU is attempting to help Canberra locals manage their allergies with a new pollen count app. The free app, Canberra Pollen, uses readings taken on a pollen counter to provide forecasts and ...