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Planting hedgerows increases soil carbon storage by almost half compared to nearby grassland – no matter where they are in the country – says new research.

University of Otago researchers have discovered a new function for the hormone prolactin – it limits a new mum’s investment in aggressive behaviour and instead focusses them on interacting with their babies.

Universities have always been more than just institutions of academic instruction.

Lismore and Brisbane’s catastrophic flood emergency has come only a short time after the last flooding disaster.

Transforming the cultural health of the nation and our region and responding to emerging threats to cultural legacies will be the core focuses of a new institute in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne.

A new motion simulator device at the University of Canterbury adds 360-degree movement to virtual reality experiences and could soon be used as a training tool.

Were the lockdown policies implemented around the globe during the Covid-19 pandemic racist?

This taboo cancer takes 9,500 lives every year in Canada. Manuela Santos, a researcher at the CHUM Research Centre, and her colleagues, Drs. Carole Richard and Roy Hajjar, want that to change. Together, they are studying the influence of the intestinal microbiota on the surgical treatment of colorectal cancer.

University of Manchester scientists have successfully pioneered a way to create functioning human spinal discs, aiming to revolutionise our understanding of back pain and disc degeneration in a leap for medical science.

Curtin University researchers will investigate fighting a plant pandemic threatening Australia’s native botanicals and further examine “life’s most essential molecule”, as the result of more than $1.3 million in funding secured in today’s Australian Research Council Linkage Program.