Associate Professor Stuart Turville from UNSW Sydney and the Kirby Institute's Immunovirology and Pathogenesis Program explains how variants emerge, how they are detected and what we know about the B.1617 variant.
02 Dec 2021
I know what you did last summer: chemical clues in the marsupial’s whiskers can reveal what they ate months – and even seasons – ago.
02 Dec 2021
Despite Australia’s long history of a secular government, this bill might create a future that segregates people based on their faith and beliefs.
The response to the Tampa incident marked a profound change in Australia’s approach to refugee boat arrivals and the introduction of offshore processing under the Pacific Solution. Photo: Shutterstock.
02 Dec 2021
The legacy of the Tampa affair echoes in Australia’s refugee and immigration policies and systems to this day.
The UNSW winners are Louise Causer, Rona Chandrawati, Gregory Dore, Peter Steinberg and Richard Bryant. Photo: UNSW
01 Dec 2021
The pioneering researchers have been honoured for excellence in biological sciences, physical sciences and innovation.
While the researchers expected HIV diagnoses to continue on a downward trajectory, the decline has almost certainly been influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic. Photo: Shutterstock
01 Dec 2021
Forty years after the first case of AIDS was described in the United States, the number of people diagnosed with HIV in Australia is at an all-time low.
The outcome of cricket matches can be significantly influenced by which team wins the toss and therefore gets to decide whether to bat or bowl first. Photo: Shutterstock
01 Dec 2021
Game theory expert Haris Aziz says cricket should introduce a new way of conducting the toss so there’s less of an advantage gained just from calling heads or tails correctly.
30 Nov 2021
An analysis published in the lead up to World AIDS Day reveals that HIV is ‘virally suppressed’ in only 59 per cent of children and adolescents on treatment.
30 Nov 2021
This is the first study to compare the cardiovascular safety of two popular quit smoking medicines.
30 Nov 2021
UNSW scientists will be assessing the role surfers play in rescuing swimmers in distress as well as their broader contribution to society in a world-first, global survey.
29 Nov 2021
UNSW Sydney and ACOSS partnership research shows the impact of the pandemic on long-standing unaffordability, inequality and indebtedness.
Prof. Ford and Prof. Freestone have been elected to the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Photo: UNSW Sydney.
29 Nov 2021
Two UNSW Sydney professors are recognised for their outstanding contribution to the humanities.
With real life-or-death consequences, cyber security for humanitarian and human rights organisations is vital. Photo: Pexels
29 Nov 2021
UNSW and Neutrality partner to develop secure computer operating systems that will protect critical humanitarian infrastructure.
26 Nov 2021
UNSW Sydney researchers have been awarded a $1.3m grant to establish support programs for local psychologists in Syria, Turkey and Bangladesh.
26 Nov 2021
UNSW academics are named Fellows for their work in engineered structures and bushfire behaviour.
25 Nov 2021
A new report shows the urgent need for action to mitigate climate change and biodiversity loss, and the significant consequences facing all life on Earth in failing to do so.
Dr Ruth Wells says while we are exposed to a lot of messaging around celebrating with family at Christmas, for a lot of people, the family may be a source of trauma or sadness. Photo: Shutterstock
25 Nov 2021
Christmas can be stressful for a variety of reasons. Reduce your stress by applying these helpful techniques.
UNSW Business School and CEPAR economist Dr Tim Neal has received a 2021 Paul Bourke Award for early career research. Photo: Supplied.
24 Nov 2021
Tim Neal has been recognised for his insights into the economics of climate change, COVID-19 panic buying and child labour.
19 Nov 2021
Patterns of rapid ice loss in the past could predict style of future Antarctic ice sheet retreat.
The Screaming Tree Frog (left) and the Slender Bleating Tree Frog (right) are two new frog species, but they were originally thought to be one: the Robust Bleating Tree Frog (centre). Photos: Jodi Rowley.
23 Nov 2021
Frog calls and DNA reveal the loudest Australian frog is not one but three different species.
Photo: AP Photo/Lisa Leutner
23 Nov 2021
For starters, we need to start thinking of fully vaccinated as three doses, not two. But vaccines alone won’t be enough.
16 Nov 2021
Mental health advocate Honor Eastly and Professor Ian Hickie AM are winners of the 2021 Australian Mental Health Prize.
Young girl scrolling through a phone. Image: Videoblocks
When there is heightened anxiety around us, how do we talk to our youngest generation about it? Dr Ariana Krynen from UNSW Science gives her top tips on talking to children about crisis.
17 Nov 2021
A new Education Partnership will see academics on stage, students volunteering and engagement with the broad UNSW community.
In Australia, making new aluminium represents 6.5 per cent of our greenhouse gas emissions. Photo: Shutterstock.
18 Nov 2021
Aluminium is hugely useful, but energy-intensive to produce. What if we didn’t have to smelt any more?
The Nuremberg Code was a direct response to atrocities Nazi doctors performed in concentration camps during WWII. Photo: Diego Fedele/AAP Image.
18 Nov 2021
Emotive claims, like COVID vaccination being unethical or coercive, are more likely to be shared on social media. But we can fight back.
By opening another window, you allow more airflow into the vehicle and cancel the Helmholtz Resonance effect. Image: Pexel
What is that loud throbbing noise when you drive with only one window open?
In scientific language, it's called Helmholtz Resonance and Dr Jeoffrey Fischer, from UNSW School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, explains why this phenomenon happens.
Seven Australian universities are in the top 100 in the 2021 ARTU ranking. Photo: UNSW
16 Nov 2021
The latest ARTU ranking of universities worldwide shows Australia is running a competitive race.
NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet presented Veena Sahajwalla with the 2022 NSW Australian of the Year award. Photo: NADC/Salty Dingo.
16 Nov 2021
UNSW Sydney scientist, engineer and inventor has been recognised for her pioneering research into waste, turning it into a new generation of green materials and products.
A rise in one metre by the end of the century has the potential to displace hundreds of millions of people. Photo: Shutterstock
16 Nov 2021
The sea has been rising and falling for eons, but there is compelling evidence that carbon emissions from human activity is speeding the process along.
Drivers under the age of 25 are overrepresented in motor vehicle accidents: they make up just 15 per cent of the driving population, yet 21 per cent of drivers in NSW involved in a motor vehicle crash are under 25. Photo: Shutterstock.
15 Nov 2021
A UNSW study aims to establish what can be done to reduce the rate of P-plate car crashes.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Australia had reduced its emissions by 20 per cent. Photo: Joel Carrett/AAP
12 Nov 2021
The prime minister road-tested an avalanche of slogans on Wednesday, some of them clearly false.
Fern Tree Gully, Hobart Town, Tasmania, 1887 from Anson Brothers Studio. Albumen print. Collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
12 Nov 2021
A study of more than 2000 early landscape photographs shows how nature was framed as a wilderness, empty of First Nations peoples.
11 Nov 2021
The disproportionate removal of Aboriginal children will continue without an improved government response, says UNSW's Professor Megan Davis.
Only in coming years will we know if COP26 was a real game-changer for the planet. Photo: Shutterstock
12 Nov 2021
The COP26 summit has not lived up to the goal of reducing temperature rises because there are too many loopholes for the fossil fuel industry to exploit.
Launch of Let's Talk About Water in October 2020 at Kentucky Creek Dam, Uralla's town water supply. Photo: Supplied.
11 Nov 2021
Inclusive decision-making that consults local communities is key to making informed choices on environmental issues such as water security.
10 Nov 2021
Researchers and clinicians will work in close partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to develop a national framework for ‘point-of-care’ testing for infectious diseases.
Australian paintings by J.W. Lewin, G.P. Harris, G.W. Evans and others, 1796-1809; Photo: State Library of NSW.
10 Nov 2021
A review of studies of Parramatta demonstrates an extensive deep-time archive of Indigenous activity extending over 14,000 years.
Around one in five (21.8 per cent) of survey responders said they found treatment helpful from the start, i.e., from the time they saw the first professional. Photo: Shutterstock
10 Nov 2021
Fewer than half of people with alcohol use disorder who received professional help perceived their treatment as helpful.
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