Children with a particularly lethal cancer could benefit from potentially life-saving treatment, following breakthrough work led by researchers at UNSW.
Ultimately the truth will emerge about why Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 disappeared on Saturday, and hopefully the causes of the tragedy will provide important lessons to make flying even safer, writes Jason Middleton.
For her exceptional leadership and research, marine ecologist Emma Johnston has won the inaugural Nancy Millis Medal for Women in Science, awarded by the Australian Academy of Science on International Women's Day.
Richard Mosse infiltrated armed rebel groups in the Congo to capture their war experiences on discontinued surveillance film. His dramatic video installation opens this month at Galleries UNSW.
UNSW's Kirby Institute welcomes early results from the PARTNER study, which has found that HIV positive gay men who are on anti-retoviral treatment and have an undetectable viral load are not transmitting HIV to their partners.
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It’s not just doing 130 on a 100km/h region, but even moderate speeding in urban areas can be a highly risky activity for other people on the road, particularly if they're not protected - bicyclists, motorbikes, pedestrians.
The historical record shows that no party has a monopoly on human rights reform. It also shows that every government has, at some point, deserved criticism for breaching human rights, argues George Williams.
I think home-based testing absolutely has a place... in Australia because treatment as prevention critically depends on people with HIV being diagnosed as early as possible.
A review of the defence department is a herculean task and its success relies on challenging vested interests and institutional inertia by establishing an independent inquiry with a broad remit, writes Alan Dupont.
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6 March 2014
With pressure mounting to finally build Sydney’s second airport at Badgerys Creek, how can we avoid the noise mistakes of the past, ask Marion Burgess and David Southgate.
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6 March 2014
UNSW researchers have already discovered a molecule that holds promise as a drug target for progressive MS, now they hope to put the research into practice, thanks to new funding.
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10 March 2014
One neglected corner of the working women debate is that of female academics – the women who teach the new generation of leaders, produce valuable research and thought leadership, writes Renee Adams.
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11 March 2014
Britain's foremost "thinking soldier" and international expert on defence, General Sir Rupert Smith, will discuss war in the modern world and the unravelling of the Middle East Conflict at a UNSW Canberra public lecture tomorrow.
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10 March 2014
It is infantile for artists in the Biennale to pick on Trasnfield Holdings because of its contract to operate a detention centre on Manus Island if they ignore the central role the Australian government plays in directing the entire operation, writes Joanna Mendelssohn.
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3 March 2014
As educators, we need to ask ourselves what we can deliver beyond the academic so our students graduate not just with professional qualifications, but with core life skills, writes Professor Wai Fong Chua.
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26 February 2014
UNSW has once again performed strongly in the QS World University Rankings, with 16 subjects in the world’s top 50 and Accounting and Finance breaking into the top 10.
