Building climate resilience through a joint research collaboration
Resorts World Sentosa’s (RWS) S.E.A. Aquarium and the Earth Observatory of Singapore (EOS) at NTU Singapore are embarking on a research collaboration that will see the collective efforts of S.E.A. Aquarium and EOS...
Travel emissions show promising drop
Findings by the department of Social Responsibility and Sustainability (SRS) suggest that total CO2 emissions from business travel have fallen from 18,600 to 12,159 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2e) in 2018/19 compared with 2022/23.
Awards given to exceptional UC teachers and mentors
Improving access for diverse learners is a common theme among the 2023 winners of Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury’s annual Teaching Awards.
Almost half of people with common heart arrythmia die within 10 years of hospitalisation
Forty-five per cent of patients admitted to hospital for atrial fibrillation (AF) in Australia and New Zealand die within a decade, according to University of Queensland research.
Fruit fly helps unlock clues about how organs, tissue and cancer grow
The fruit fly, Drosophila, has been used by scientists for more than 100 years to unravel key features of life on earth, such as how animals respond to the sun and how the bodies of animals are patterned from head to tail.
Renewed partnership with Dassault Systèmes puts next-gen engineers in the cloud
The University of Adelaide and Dassault Systèmes have extended their partnership, giving students access to some of the most powerful software available for systems engineering design and advanced manufacturing.
Calling for action on National Day for Awareness of MMIWG2S
On May 3, the University of Waterloo community came together to observe the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and Two-Spirit People (MMIWG2S)
Can AI help fill in the gaps?
Since last year, I have been working on a project with my Thai mother who migrated to Australia in 1974 while pregnant with me. There are no photographs of this significant event.
Australians are having fewer babies and our local-born population is about to shrink: here’s...
This article by Head of the School of Social Sciences at The University of Western Australia Professor Amanda Davies originally appeared in The Conversation on 29 April 2024.
How to tackle gambling harms
Whether you’re watching TV, attending a footy game, or eating a meal at your local pub, gambling is hard to escape. Although the rise of gambling is not unique to Australia
