31 July 2023Workplace discrimination is still rife for pregnant women in Australia. A new study shows that 20 years after it was outlawed in Australia, workplace discrimination is still rife...
UNSW Sydney academics from a diversity of disciplines have been named Future Fellows by the Australian Research Council (ARC). Under the 2023 ARC Future Fellowships scheme, 100 Future Fellows across...
For the first time, scientists have managed to induce virgin birth in an animal that usually reproduces sexually: the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Virgin birth, or ‘parthenogenesis’, is the process...
What is climate anxiety? I recently helped produce a fact sheet about climate anxiety through the Canadian Psychological Association (McCunn et al., 2020). It is important to speak with a...
The study analysed the incidence of invasive bacterial disease caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, Neisseria meningitidis and Streptococcus agalactiae two years before (2018–2019) and during (2020–2021) the pandemic. The...
Seven months ago, Social Sciences Division put out a call to its academics: would you like to make a short film based on your research, in collaboration with BBC Ideas?...
How these scams workSetting up a myGov account or a myGov ID requires proof of identity in the form of “100 points of ID”. In this scam, the cyber criminal...
The researchers say we must acknowledge that the mental health impacts of weather-related disasters extend far beyond those directly impacted by these events - it can also impact people living...
In addition, understaffed nursing homes were more likely to receive PPP loans, suggesting that the forgivable loans reached the small businesses most in need and funding was not diverted to...
Quite literally: Give or take a few hundred thousand, that's the number of unique objects in the MIT Museum's astonishingly diverse collection. Martinez, a master of the art and science...