Canberra Writers Festival 2020
The Canberra Writers Festival 2020 program is now live! Book your tickets now to secure limited places for live physical events. The entire program will be streamed.
Firestone Fellowships Recognize Student Research Projects
Students Rocco Distefano and Simon Ignat have been awarded Hofstra’s Firestone Fellowship, an award that has allowed them to continue research projects this summer.
New research strengthens evidence for climate change increasing risk of wildfires
New scientific publications reviewed since January 2020 strengthen the evidence that climate change increases the frequency and...
Turning hotels into emergency shelter as part of COVID-19 response limited spread of coronavirus,...
A King County initiative that moved people out of homeless shelters and into hotel rooms earlier this year helped slow the transmission of coronavirus..
Chemical clues in leaves can reveal ash tree resistance to deadly disease
Naturally occurring compounds in ash leaves could be linked to susceptibility of individual trees to the fungal disease ash dieback (ADB).
RGU wins Energy Institute competition sixth year in a row
An engineering student from Robert Gordon University (RGU), Liza van den Berg, has taken home the top prize in an annual competition held by the Energy Institute (EI).
Ringo Starr of the bird world heading for extinction
New research from The Australian National University shows palm cockatoos, renowned for their human-like musical drumming behaviour, are threatened with extinction.
“Turning cultural objects into digital installations intrigues me”
Alexander Rusnak is a second-year student in the Master of Science in Digital Humanities program, offered by the Digital Humanities Institute in EPFL’s College of Humanities.
Solar activity reconstructed over a millennium
An international team of researchers led by ETH Zurich has reconstructed solar activity back to the year 969 using measurements of radioactive carbon in tree rings.
NHS COVID-19 contact tracing app averted between 200,000 and 900,000 infections, estimates infectious disease...
The research suggests the app stopped between 200,000 and 900,000 infections between 1st October and 31st December 2020, when 1.9 million people were infected with coronavirus in England and Wales.
