Fed up with repeated spam emails from faux journals seeking submissions, I decided to have some fun; the results were initially amusing but ultimately concerning. By Peter Vamplew As a computer science researcher, I first encountered predatory, spam-driven publishers during ...

Three academics recently listed amongst the nation’s most influential women give their perspectives on how the gender gap still affects the higher education sector.  Most Australians would probably not be overly familiar with former Irish president Mary Robinson. Born Mary ...

A UNSW ecologist and a group of Sydney schoolgirls have identified a novel approach to preventing the nation’s Christmas trees from browning off this year: hairspray. The project, undertaken by Year 7 students at Kambala and overseen by UNSW staff, analysed the ...

Two university leaders in science and innovation discuss the role of proposed growth centres in promoting better connections between science and industry. By Andrew Bracey The federal government recently unveiled promises of a greater focus on links between research and ...

The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has thrown its support behind an international campaign aimed at providing a more accurate picture of medical trial data. The AllTrials campaign calls for the data from every validly completed medical trial ...

An Australian-led international project that compiles data from crocodile attacks on humans is set to expand thanks to a much-needed funding boost. The Worldwide Crocodilian Attack Database, dubbed CrocBITE by co-creator and Charles Darwin University researcher Dr Adam Britton, was developed ...

UTS has unveiled its latest program aimed at maximising the commercialisation of research, announcing a new start-up plan in partnership with the Kolling Institute of Medical Research at Sydney’s Royal North Shore hospital. SPARK Sydney, which the university spruiks as the ...

A Curtin University PhD student who spends much of her time recording and analysing underwater soundscapes for the mutual benefit of local dolphin and human populations has taken out the 2014 Trans-Tasman Three Minute Thesis (TMT) title. Having already won ...

GPs are working harder now than they were a decade ago and older patients accounted for about a third of their clinical workload in 2013–14, new research shows. The results come from two reports published today from the Family Medicine Research ...

With the bulk of print news circulation in freefall, Charles Sturt University has revealed some mildly heartening research findings for media companies: many young people apparently still love reading their news the old-fashioned way – on paper. The study, carried ...