The central theme of new Netflix drama The Chair is timely and gets a lot right about racial politics in modern American academia. Smart, incisive, nicely written and acted, it’s a genuinely rewarding binge watch. As senior academic women ourselves, ...

A German University is on high alert after a suspected poisoning left students and staff turning blue, with one victim temporarily on life support. Seven people at Darmstadt Technical University were displaying symptoms of poisoning, six of whom needed hospital ...

Autism is a neurological condition affecting an estimated 150,000 Australians, with the disorder diagnosed in roughly one in 160 children. But in what could potentially be a major breakthrough, diagnosing Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) may one day involve a simple ...

A study on how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected Australian academics and their respective institutions has just been released, highlighting some concerning findings but also some "silver linings". The study, published in the Higher Education Research and Development journal and ...

Sydney Islamic leaders have banded together to push their communities to get vaccinated as authorities struggle to contain the spread of Covid-19 in the city’s west. The NSW government on Thursday 19 August revealed the suburbs with the fastest growing ...

People with boring jobs have a higher risk of dementia according to researchers at University College London (UCL). An investigation of seven large cohort studies suggests that people with mentally taxing jobs have a lower risk of dementia, as proteins ...

It’s a perennial problem facing thousands of school leavers: should I stay or should I go? While many teenagers cannot wait to leave a small town like Mount Isa (population roughly 21,000), jumping into second-hand cars with their friends, giddy ...

A handful of students from a top university have been expelled from their accommodation after they hosted dorm room parties during lockdown. The students have been removed from Campus East of the University of Wollongong (UOW) for breaching NSW Health orders by having two gatherings ...

Logging near regional towns increases the risk of severe fires, according to researchers from ANU. The research found that young forests regenerating after logging, particularly between 10 and 40 years old, were susceptible to "very high severity fire". "Our findings ...

People who use social media are being trained to express moral outrage with the reward of likes and shares, according to new research from Yale University.  Researchers from the Yale Department of Psychology measured the expression of moral outrage on ...