Scientia Professor Michelle Simmons has been named 2018 Australian of the Year.
22 Jan 2019
Pancreatic and brain cancer researcher Dr Angelica Merlot has been nominated for 2019 NSW Young Woman of the Year.
23 Jan 2019
A study by UNSW researchers is evaluating a short, online-based therapy that holds great promise for people who suffer from panic disorder.
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22 Jan 2019
Bowel cancer mostly affects people over the age of 50, but recent evidence suggests it’s on the rise among younger Australians.
Scientia Professor Michelle Simmons with a scanning tunnelling microscope. Credit: UNSW
22 Jan 2019
Don’t fixate on funding cuts and market challenges, UK-born star scientist Michelle Simmons tells Australian peers.
Architects Eva Prats and Ricardo Flores.
17 Jan 2019
Eva Prats and Ricardo Flores have built a portfolio that combines the rehabilitation of old buildings with creating new public spaces.
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22 Jan 2019
Over half of the world’s groundwater flows could take over 100 years to respond fully to climate change, new research has revealed.
Men and women face different trade-offs when choosing a career in teaching. Image from Shutterstock
21 Jan 2019
For women with a bachelor of arts degree, teaching is one of the highest paying jobs. The opposite is true for men.
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22 Jan 2019
Imagine if men were expected to turn up to work and act normal even if they were bleeding, doubled-over with abdominal pain, and grief stricken because their baby just died.
The identification of ORP2 as the protein responsible for transporting cholesterol around a cell opens the way to develop drugs that could improve the body's good cholesterol levels. Picture: Shutterstock
18 Jan 2019
A protein that transports cholesterol inside cells could be the key to developing drugs to boost ‘good cholesterol’.
The way to avoid perverse outcomes from offering certain rewards is often to make the incentives harder to understand. Image from Shutterstock
18 Jan 2019
Counterintuitively, vague incentives to improve performance or behaviour are often stronger than clear ones.
10 Jan 2019
UNSW's Professor John Church, the world's pre-eminent expert in sea level rise, is the first Australian awarded the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Climate Change.
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The new visa allowing migrant parents to bring their own parents to Australia to provide childcare support has dangers for families, write Angela Kintominas and Myra Hamilton.
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Building defects in apartment blocks are far from unusual. We need to identify the systemic flaws contributing to them.
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Evidence is growing that pill testing encourages young people to reconsider their drug use — and new forms of testing can provide even more benefits.
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Seven UNSW academics and alumni have been awarded Fulbright Scholarships, the flagship US foreign exchange program that aims to increase binational research collaboration and the exchange of ideas.
