Over the weekend, a team of Curtin University researchers were tasked by NASA to observe the Lucy' spacecraft as it passed close to Earth, with Western Australia being the best vantage point.  Researchers from Curtin’s Desert Fireball Network headed to ...

Federal education minister Jason Clare will announce the details of the Australian Universities Accord, including its panel of “eminent Australians” and their terms of reference, next month. Speaking to the University Chancellor's Council last week, the minister said the bipartisan ...

An Australian native grass will be sent to the Moon by 2025 in a first step toward establishing sustainable life on the celestial body.  The project led by Queensland University of Technology (QUT) researcher Lauren Fell in association with national ...

Skunkworks was the term given to a secret, small team of R&D engineers at Lockheed Corp in 1943 tasked with finding breakthrough innovations in jet fighter technology, in the heat of battle. They generated a new design in a month ...

Australia now has seven universities in the world’s top 100 as ranked by Times Higher Education with the University of Adelaide joining the elite group. The University of Melbourne remains Australia’s most highly ranked institution, slipping to 34th this year ...

Some practices and ways of working, historically, have proven more enduring than others. Digital nomadism actually represents a huge step away from the long-established experiences and traditions of human learning which have customarily relied upon F2F (face to face) human ...

For the first time in its 235-year history since 1787 the United States Supreme Court has a female African-American Associate Justice: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. This is to be commemorated but it would not change the right-wing orientation of the ...

Melbourne researchers have discovered a life-changing pill that could help hay fever and thunderstorm asthma sufferers. The tablets – infused with tiny doses of grass pollens – have been found to provide long-term protection against allergic reactions, including thunderstorm asthma. ...

A chemistry professor has created a new 3D-printed model to enable visually-impaired students to understand their university courses better. Associate Professor Aaron Oakley from the University of Wollongong says he first came up with the idea after he discovered two ...

Undergraduate research students are an essential part of tomorrow’s academic workforce, but a lack of access to resources and overall recognition could hinder Australia’s future research output, an expert says. University of Sydney higher education scholar Dr Lilia Mantai says ...