New drug to combat global killer sepsis
A promising new drug to combat sepsis has been developed by researchers at The Australian National University, potentially saving millions of lives each year.
An incredible journey just begun for Cambridge-bound graduate
Curious child, decorated student, cancer survivor, marathon runner, volunteer and soon-to-be Cambridge University PhD student. Sometimes people’s stories leave us with gaping jaws.
2020 Fudan Science and Innovation Forum held in Shanghai
On December 13, the fifth Fudan-Zhongzhi Science Award ceremony and 2020 Fudan Science and Innovation Forum were held in Shanghai.
New Colombo Plan Scholar acts on disability inclusion
2020 New Colombo Plan (NCP) Scholar and UQ philosophy and economics student Adele Greedy-Vogel wants to make her mark in disability inclusion.
CityU researcher: Kangaroos can intentionally communicate with humans
A research team led by a scientist who is now based at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) has discovered that kangaroos, animals that have never been domesticated...
Researchers sound alarm on sugary drinks
Almost 80 percent of drinks in New Zealand supermarkets are sugary, swelling health risks and indicating industry self-regulation is failing, researchers say.
Gambling rates dropped during height of COVID restrictions
Gambling rates in Australia dropped off significantly during the height of COVID-19 restrictions, before increasing again over the past six months...
The perils of economic over-integration
While balancing trade interests is critical for New Zealand, it should give preference to countries with similar institutional conventions, write researchers.
Vitamin supplements may have small effect on COVID-19 risk for women
Researchers at King’s analysing data from an app have found that certain vitamin supplements may have a small effect on reducing the likelihood of catching COVID-19 for women but not men.
Reckoning with Australia’s colonial archive: poet Natalie Harkin wins RAKA Prize
Narungga woman and South Australian poet, Natalie Harkin has won the 2020 Kate Challis RAKA Award for her work Archival-Poetics, an unflinching anthology that faces the violence...
