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UNSW researcher receives prestigious NHMRC award

Mar 31, 2022

A UNSW Sydney academic has been recognised at the 2021 NHMRC Research Excellence Awards for her research to improve the outcomes for women diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Prof. Ramus received...

The 2018 childcare package was partly designed to help families work more. But the benefits were too modest to matter

Mar 31, 2022

The federal government introduced the current childcare subsidy and activity test in 2018. The federal government introduced the Jobs for Families Child Care Package in July 2018. For the subsidy,...

Poorly conceived payment-on-results funding threatens to undermine education aid

Mar 31, 2022

Results-based financing is a funding model that has been widely adopted by Western governments and institutions to provide education aid to lower-income countries. The new study examined the ‘Programme for...

Ukraine mayor survives rocket assassination attempt because he overslept

Mar 31, 2022

Not among them was exhausted Head of Administration Vitaliy Kim, who had overslept and missed possibly a tragic fate. Ukraine ’s Strategic Communications and Information Team tweeted: “Russian military shelled...

A new era in MIT community philanthropy and service

Mar 31, 2022

After decades of close collaboration and partnership, the MIT Community Service Fund (CSF) and Community Giving at MIT have officially joined forces under the CSF banner to continue their pursuit...

No increased risk of brain tumours for mobile phone users, new study finds

Mar 31, 2022

Around 776,000 participants completed questionnaires about their mobile phone usage in 2001; around half of these were surveyed again in 2011. The researchers also investigated whether mobile phone use was...

The Rule of Two helps making spaces sound better

Mar 31, 2022

Acoustics researchers of Aalto University have improved the most common method for measuring the acoustics of a room, the sine sweep technique. The new method, which the researchers call the...

Dr. Michael Kobor to lead new UBC research program in healthy aging

Mar 31, 2022

Dr. Michael Kobor to lead new UBC research program in healthy aging Science, Health & TechnologyRenowned biomedical researcher Dr. Michael Kobor has been appointed to lead the Edwin S.H. Leong...

Studied dizziness and developed a new method for use worldwide

Mar 30, 2022

Studied dizziness and developed a new method for use worldwideThe room around you sways up and down and you feel seasick. While searching for the cause of dizziness, scientists at...

From lab to slab

Mar 30, 2022

Lead researcher, UniSA’s Professor Julie Mills, says that this research is the first to practically demonstrate* and construct the new crumb rubber concrete mix in the field, literally taking the...