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Australians with inherited retinal disease (IRD) have a strong interest in undergoing gene therapy to prevent and treat blindness – but there’s a critical need for education programs to help them make informed choices about future treatments, new research shows.

A new study published today in Nature Sustainability has found that using hydropower dams to generate low emission energy can cause problems for other economic sectors such as food production unless smart designs are employed.

Microplastic pollution swirling in Auckland's air is equivalent to millions of plastic bottles per year.

South Australian researchers are set to use genetic tools to help find innovative solutions to the devastating mouse plagues that have caused massive economic damage to Australian farmers.

NUS College, Singapore’s first honours college, celebrated its official launch at the National University of Singapore (NUS).

Amid global calls to reduce plastic production, new research shows high amounts of plastic in Arctic Sea ice and sediment.

The art of the Kiwi short story is alive and well if entries to this year’s Sargeson Prize are anything to go by.

A study of an Indonesian migration program has found second-generation migrants tended to become dominant players in their adopted farming area by being able to negotiate ‘both worlds’ but the system had elements of colonialism.

Obesity is a significant factor in increasing rates of disease globally with the number of deaths related to a high body mass index (BMI) more than doubled from 1990 to 2017, say York University researchers.

To promote academic collaboration and exchange between faculty members and students, the Faculty of Arts and Humanities (FAH) of the University of Macau (UM) recently held the first Macao Humanities Roundtable.