Imagine a basketball: observing it with the naked eye, the basketball behaves according to the laws of classical physics. But the atoms that make up the basketball behave according to...
Every day, humans breathe in 11,000 litres of air. But this essential act also means we inhale microorganisms, particles, and pollutants. A new study from the Research Institute of the...
On Tuesday 2 February 2023, Chancellor the Hon Julie Bishop and Vice-Chancellor Professor Brian P. Schmidt shared their vision for the year ahead in the 2023 State of the University...
Here’s something else chess players need to keep in check: air pollution. The World Health Organization estimates that air pollution leads to over 4 million premature deaths worldwide every year,...
02 February 2023New biomarkers to improve skin cancer detection and avoid delays in treatment are being developed by researchers at the University of South Australia. Every 30 minutes, an Australian...
Teachers, parents and children were not prepared for the closure of schools. On top of school closures, children’s ability to learn is likely to have been reduced by lockdowns and...
The map on the right shows the same after Bergen doctor Gerhard Armauer Hansen’s discovery. The two buildings to the right in the photo are the care foundation and the...
The study was published in Empirical Studies of the Arts. “We asked in our research whether fashion aesthetics could be studied empirically, and not only discovered it can, but that...
In 1941, the National Academy of Sciences appointed a committee to assess the use of gas turbine engines — which use heat released during fuel combustion to produce thrust for...
Scientists are sharing their insights on everything from the endangered Vancouver Island marmot to investigating deep-sea organisms with computational chemistry during the Vancouver Island University (VIU) Science and Technology Community...