The University of Queensland announced today that it will not progress its COVID-19 vaccine candidate to the next stage of clinical trials due to an unexpected finding in phase 1. Data revealed that participants returned false positive HIV test results. ...

Space experts and novices alike held their breath as a capsule full of space rocks fell to the South Australian outback, after a journey of more than 5 billion kilometres. The 4.5-billion-year-old rock samples taken from an asteroid some 11.76 ...

KEEPING IT IN THE FAMILYSouthern Cross University announced two key appointments touted to help drive the institution’s path to recovery from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. New vice chancellor Professor Tyrone Carlin named Professor Erica Wilson as pro vice ...

A key chemical in marijuana does not impair a person’s ability to drive, an international study involving the University of Sydney has found. Of the two main components in cannabis, cannabidiol (CBD) and tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), CBD does not have an impact on ...

An Australian scientist has made a surprise anti-ageing breakthrough. University of Sydney Associate Professor Tony Cesare said he found “the most unexpected result of my career” in a study of stem cell immortality. The team co-led by Cesare said they have ...

The world’s top 10 universities offer fewer than average sustainability courses when measured against a pool of global institutions. That’s according to sustainable energy organisation EIT InnoEnergy, which looked at the standalone sustainable educational output of 27 institutions across Europe, ...

Australian researchers will test a way to dole out a vaccine without the need for a needle. University of Sydney researchers were awarded $1.12 million in funding to undertake independent clinical research studies to determine the effectiveness of a postage-stamp-like ...

Australian-British academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert has been released from an Iranian prison after spending more than two years behind bars over allegations of espionage. “Thank you… to all of you who have supported me and campaigned for my freedom, it has meant ...

Six per cent of Australians are certain they won’t get a COVID-19 jab once one is made available. An Australian National University survey of 3,000 Aussie adults also revealed another seven per cent feel they will probably not get the ...

As the race to make a COVID-19 vaccine safe and commercially available gathers steam, new research has revealed University of Oxford and AstraZeneca’s potential jab produced promising results in older adults. Full trial results are expected by Christmas but late-stage ...