Nature Research, the publishing group behind the prestigious scientific journal Nature, has launched a website to make complex science accessible to the general public.  The npj Science of Learning Community website was launched in collaboration with the University of Queensland. It aims to make ...

A University of Southern Queensland ecologist has withdrawn from his scheduled keynote presentation from a conservation conference, following outrage from animal rights activists. Dr Ben Allen, who’s made headlines for arguing that wild dog carcasses should be exported to Asian countries, ...

Monash University has stated that it does not have a partnership with controversial supplements brand Swisse, after a prominent public health expert labelled the university “damned by association”. Monash has entered a sponsorship agreement with ABC International, the public broadcaster’s ...

An international study has found that human-induced global warming began in the 1830s, during the Industrial Revolution. The research, published in the journal Nature, shows the Earth’s climate responded rapidly to small increases in atmospheric greenhouse gas emissions that came with industrial progress. ...

Purchasing a supercomputer is a trend, among the universities that can afford it. But a Dell executive has warned they attract hackers, and foreign government agencies, like moths to a flame. “We do know scientific data is very valuable, to both ...

Australia’s tendency “to make the unemployment experience as unpleasant as possible” could be heightening the risk of depression in those who don’t have a job, research suggests. The Australian National University’s Dr Laura Crowe, a clinical psychology doctoral student, found that ...

This is Campus Review's Profile series, in which we visit with an academic or researcher to learn more about them and their work. Dr Liam Lenton is a macroeconomist applying the principles of this otherwise dryish subject to popular pursuits like sport, music and film. ...

This is Campus Review's Profile series, in which we visit with an academic or researcher to learn more about them and their work. Dr Russell Sinclair has been researching botany at a single reserve for the past 40 years. We ...

The Australian Research Council has defended its funding of humanities studies, following media reports criticising the body for spending taxpayer dollars on “absurd and obscure” research. The Daily Telegraph today lambasted the ARC for its latest wave of funding to humanities research ...

With nearly one-third of people with epilepsy having forms resistant to current medication, some people turn to medical cannabis, driven by hope based on anecdotal evidence that it will work. Researchers at the University of Sydney’s Lambert Initiative, in partnership with ...