Australian freshwater turtle embryos can sense how developed other babies are in their eggs and then speed up their own growth to hatch with the most advanced of their siblings, according to new research…
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The arts have been left a legacy of courage in the face of moral “guardians”, with the death in England yesterday of one of mainstream cinema’s least understated directors, Ken Russell, at the age of 84…
The distinctive, planet-encircling flows of the Southern Ocean have played a role in moderating global warming, but change is at hand with the water heating up, getting less salty, storing more carbon…
The Commonwealth-appointed Murray-Darling Basin Authority has today released a draft Basin Plan for 20 weeks of consulation. In a literary aside to the debate around this contentious matter, it is worth…
Just in from the Australian Science Media Centre: The Federal Government has just announced the proposed establishment of the world’s largest marine protected area in the waters of the Coral Sea that fall…
The SensaSlim “dieter’s dream” oral spray has been ordered off the market. Effective from December 1, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) order prohibits “the importing into, exporting from, Australia…
Today’s resignation of Labor MP Harry Jenkins as Speaker of the House of Representatives throws an end-of-year bombshell into Australian federal politics. The new Speaker is Queensland MP Peter Slipper…
Pond snails kept in solitary confinement and starved of calcium for more than a week prefer to take the male role during post-liberation sex, researchers from the University of Calgary have found. Using…
Australian universities are often “held in low esteem” and will “sink or swim” in a hyper-competitive, globalised era where regional engagement is essential, said Ed Byrne, Monash University’s Vice-Chancellor…
The University of Sydney has announced the “difficult news” that it will cut hundreds of academic and general staff to compensate for lower than expected student enrolments, and in order to free up money…
Antibiotics for acute infections are a pillar of medicine, but doctors say the pillar is crumbling as pharmaceutical companies neglect antibiotic development and instead chase massive profits from chronic…
Very hot periods will almost certainly lengthen and intensify while extreme weather is likely to increase over the coming century, according to a summary of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change…
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will tonight release from its meeting in Kampala, Uganda, a summary for policy makers of a forthcoming report titled Managing the Risks of Extreme Events…
The University of Queensland’s embattled Vice-Chancellor, Paul Greenfield, will remain chair of the Group of Eight universities after today’s Go8 board meeting expressed their confidence in him. Professor…
Fighting wars together, free trade, China, and the fact that US is a Pacific power “here to stay” are some of topics covered by President Barack Obama in his speech this morning to the Australian Federal…
The election of the Rudd Government in 2007 killed the momentum that had been building in the last few years of the Howard government for research valuation to move beyond metrics-based methods (such as…
NASA has released time-lapse footage of flying over Earth taken from the International Space Station. Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream (but don’t forget to click the bottom right corner…
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has announced she wants the Australian Labor Party to change its policy of not selling uranium to countries that have not signed up to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty…
Breast cancer appears to cause “measurable brain injury” even if women do not undergo chemotherapy, and the disease can mentally impair survivors, new research has found. “These impairments significantly…
The Australian university sector recorded a record operating surplus in 2010, quadrupling from 2003 to a total of $1.95 billion. Yet higher education analysts say that the quality of coursework education…
One of the four co-founders of the privacy-friendly online social network, Diaspora, has been reported dead. Ilya Zhitomirskiy, 22, was one of four students at New York University’s Courant Institute of…
The Labor Government will reportedly allow the US to permanently base American Marines in Darwin. If this goes ahead, Australia will join a long list of countries around the world that host American soldiers…
The mining boom is gaining momentum with massive investment either underway or slated but the benefits to Australia have peaked and we must now face the difficulties of being a high-dollar quarry where…
The Electronic Nose breathalyser under development for diagnosing tuberculosis (TB) would, if successful, be an “enormous help” against a disease that killed an estimated 1.4 million people last year…
Australia needs a National University Press Network to print book and chapter-length research in the humanities and social sciences - research that, being too long for journals and not commercial enough…