Dr Mandy Hagstrom, an exercise physiologist at the School of Medical Sciences, UNSW takes you through five exercises you can do at home without needing any gym equipment.
17 Sep 2021
Australia's unexpected move to nuclear submarines and the AUKUS alliance raises challenges with China and cost blowouts, say UNSW experts on defence and international relations.
17 Sep 2021
Media coverage misses the nuances of the chief health officer roles. This is what we found when we spoke to them.
Regent honeyeaters are often found in vegetation along fences and roadsides. Photo: Shutterstock
17 Sep 2021
Under a new code, rural landholders in NSW will be allowed to clear up to 25 metres of land outside their property boundary. This will be devastating for the wildlife that live or migrate there.
Housing affordability in Australia, or lack thereof, means many struggle to stay above the poverty line. Photo: James Ross/AAP
17 Sep 2021
Australia faces economic problems down the road if three big, structural reform areas – housing affordability, the tax mix, and decarbonisation – are not addressed.
Astute class submarine HMS Ambush, which is nuclear-powered, travels at low speed on the surface during sea trials near Scotland. Photo: Wikimedia
16 Sep 2021
The AUKUS partnership puts Australia in a uniquely strengthened position, says UNSW defence expert Paul Maddison.
Businesses have been called upon to help boost rates of vaccination in Australia. Photo: Shutterstock
16 Sep 2021
As Australia edges closer to vaccination rollout targets needed to open international borders, big businesses have been stepping up. But is it their role to speed up a government plan?
The likelihood of vaccinations reducing the risk of long COVID is one more reason to roll up our sleeves. Photo: Shutterstock.
16 Sep 2021
One study suggests getting vaccinated halves the risk of developing long COVID.
For the past 10 years, researchers have assumed that the phenomenon existed but were unable to observe it. Photo: UNSW
15 Sep 2021
A fundamental discovery in materials science has potential applications for water filtration and energy storage.
Investigator Grants is the NHMRC's largest scheme for the highest performing researchers at all career stages. Photo: Shutterstock.
15 Sep 2021
High-performing UNSW researchers have been awarded 33 medical and health research fellowships.
The NHMRC Centres of Research Excellence scheme provides support for teams of researchers to pursue collaborative research. Photo: Shutterstock.
15 Sep 2021
UNSW has been awarded NHMRC funding to establish three new research centres for vascular dementia, the mitigation of airborne threats, and research into the impact of food systems on our health and environment.
NHMRC Partnership Projects create opportunities for researchers and policy makers to work together to undertake research and implement the findings into policy and practice. Photo: Shutterstock.
15 Sep 2021
UNSW Sydney researchers have secured more than $6 million for five projects that will improve public health services.
The UNSW project will work closely with community aged care providers. Image: Shutterstock.
15 Sep 2021
A UNSW Sydney researcher has received a grant to make end of life planning more accessible for older adults.
NSW may have cases in the hundreds or thousands when restrictions are relaxed. Photo: Joel Carrett/AAP.
15 Sep 2021
An 80% adult vaccination rate corresponds to 64% of the overall population, leaving plenty of people susceptible to the virus if restrictions ease too quickly.
This is the first time scientists have been able to see in detail what the anchor’s chain looks like. Photo: Marco Heydecker.
14 Sep 2021
The discovery gives scientists new directions for future cancer research.
14 Sep 2021
So many climate models, so little time … A new way of measuring ocean temperatures helps scientists sort the likely from unlikely scenarios of global warming.
Australian Greens leader Adam Bandt. Photo: Mick Tsikas/AAP
13 Sep 2021
Taxing super profits sounds like a a good idea, but it’s hard to get right and there might be better ways to get more company tax.
Does racking up too much debt today imply diminished spending on everything else other than paying back the debt in the future? Photo: Shutterstock
13 Sep 2021
Governments are spending at unprecedented levels. Where does this money come from, and are governments saddling young people with too much debt?
10 Sep 2021
A new-generation ICU unit on wheels is timely during COVID-19, when ICU capacity needs to surge.
09 Sep 2021
When it comes to sexual consent, we need to talk often and earlier, before it’s too late.
UNSW Science's Giulia Ferretto planting Posidonia australis into old boat mooring scars in Port Stephens. Photo: Grumpy Turtle Creative.
09 Sep 2021
A ‘storm squad’ of volunteers are collecting seagrass fragments used to rehabilitate endangered Posidonia.
Photo: Mick Tsikas/AAP
09 Sep 2021
The Morrison government says existing laws already provide a positive duty to prevent sexual harassment, but these don’t go far enough.
08 Sep 2021
State police have accessed QR code check-in data on at least six occasions, for investigations unrelated to the pandemic.
Renewable energy sources accounted for 24 per cent of electricity produced in Australia in 2021, but that figure is set to rise sharply in the future. Image from Shutterstock.
08 Sep 2021
Everything you ever wanted to know about the way we will ultimately derive all our power from renewable sources, and how quickly it will be achieved.
Scientist Emma Harding wonders whether viral fossils stored in human DNA could be protecting us against viral infections. Photo: Emma Harding
08 Sep 2021
Viral fossils buried in DNA may protect against future virus infections, a new marsupial study suggests.
06 Sep 2021
‘Tele Stroke’ puts a Sydney stroke specialist in the emergency department of a rural hospital to give patients vital early assistance.
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06 Sep 2021
The NSW plan doesn’t measure up against international best practice. And Victoria doesn’t seem to be following a child-centred approach, either.
The Australian Institute of Physics has awarded two medals to Scientia Professor Andrea Morello and Dr Samuel Gorman. Image: Shutterstock
06 Sep 2021
UNSW researchers have won medals from the Australian Institute of Physics, including for excellence in research.
03 Sep 2021
This is the first large-scale study to measure the academic outcomes of children hospitalised with a chronic condition.
Photo: Shutterstock
03 Sep 2021
Strip away the sexy marketing and what you have is just another digital platform shifting legal responsibilities and risks.
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03 Sep 2021
Most kids will be unvaccinated if schools in the two largest states re-open in term 4. There may still be community transmission, but there are measures we can take to shield kids from the virus.
The current situation of the majority of the Australian population in lockdown is a fight between the common good and individual rights, UNSW Scientia Professor of Psychology Joe Forgas says.
02 Sep 2021
Psychology researcher says the COVID restrictions governments have put in place may undermine trust and the stability of liberal democracies.
One of the biggest challenges is how to implement AI or machine learning assisted decision making in medicine, but with the clinician still feeling in control, says Professor Louisa Jorm. Photo: Shutterstock
02 Sep 2021
Artificial intelligence in ICUs and detecting cancer clones that may be resistant to treatment ahead of time could be the future of medicine.
Photo: Shutterstock
01 Sep 2021
There are practical things you can do to make your child more comfortable if they’re ill.
Some people with long COVID develop difficulties in concentrating which can persist months after infection, Dr Lucette Cysique from the UNSW School of Psychology says. Photo: Shutterstock.
01 Sep 2021
A UNSW psychology researcher is behind neurocognitive testing recommendations that will help assess long COVID patients.
01 Sep 2021
The second wave of COVID-19 in New South Wales highlights concerns for the unvaccinated and those with multiple risk factors - particularly Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Cries about an 'obesity epidemic' need to, frankly, cool it. Photo: Unsplash.
01 Sep 2021
Everyone deserves to be treated with dignity and respect, no matter their body size.
A new international campaign is calling for “ecocide” – the killing of ecology – to be deemed an international “super crime". Photo: WWF
01 Sep 2021
The push for a new environmental crime has attracted high-profile backers including French President Emmanuel Macron, Pope Francis and Greta Thunberg. But we must get the details right.
The narrative is one of Team Australia and we are “all in this together”. But are we really? Photo: Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Services.
31 Aug 2021
It’s simply not “safe” for many Australians to come out of Scott Morrison’s proverbial cave until vaccination rates increase.
A career-long focus on childhood and adult cancers has been a driving force for Professor Peter Gunning’s research. Photo: UNSW Sydney.
31 Aug 2021
Professor Peter Gunning has been recognised by the Australia and New Zealand Society for Cell and Developmental Biology for his research which potentially impacts a broad range of diseases including childhood and adult cancers.
High levels of sodium intake and low levels of potassium intake are widespread, and both are linked to high blood pressure and greater risks of stroke, heart disease and premature death. Photo: Shutterstock
30 Aug 2021
A major new piece of research reports on the results of one of the largest dietary intervention studies ever conducted.
Photo: Jose Luis Magana/AP
30 Aug 2021
An ‘orderly departure program’ similar to the one set up after the Vietnam War could offer a vital pathway out of Afghanistan for refugees over the next several years.
The ultimate aim of the project is to release a smarter generation of bandicoots and other locally extinct mammals back into the wild. Photo: UNSW Sydney.
After more than a century, locally extinct bandicoots have returned to Sturt National Park. The nationally threatened species – known by local Aboriginal people as ‘talpero’ – once ranged across inland Australia. Now, a founding population of talpero have been reintroduced to the area by the team at Wild Deserts, a collaboration led by UNSW Sydney ecologists and Ecological Horizons with the National Parks and Wildlife Service of the NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment and Taronga Conservation Society Australia. Read the full story
The silver medal provided a glimmer of hope to spur UNSW students Tim Brand (back row, far right) and Dylan Martin (back row, second from right) on to the Commonwealth Games in 2022 and the next Olympics in 2024. Photo: Hockey Australia
26 Aug 2021
Now the dust has settled on the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, some of UNSW’s Olympians reflect on the experience of the most unusual Games ever.
The newly established UNSW RNA Institute is part of a collaborative, RNA Bioscience alliance between NSW universities. Photo: Shutterstock.
25 Aug 2021
Beyond fighting pandemics with mRNA vaccines, there is significant potential to treat cancer, genetic and autoimmune diseases.
Photo: Maya Alleruzzo/AP/AAP
24 Aug 2021
Australia plans to begin relaxing restrictions once 70% of over-16s are fully vaccinated. But as Israel shows us, it’s likely not enough to reach herd immunity, especially with the Delta variant.
"There is a range of reasons why breakthrough infections occur in fully immunised individuals," said Conjoint Professor at UNSW Medicine & Health, Christine Jenkins. Photo: Shutterstock
24 Aug 2021
Immune fitness, virus variant and vaccine type are all factors that can contribute to breakthrough infections in the fully immunised.
Professor Richard Bryant says people get anxious at the start of lockdowns, then their coping resources get eroded over time. Photo: Shutterstock.
25 Aug 2021
A UNSW expert on post-traumatic stress and anxiety explains why this year’s lockdown is affecting everyone – and especially vulnerable groups – differently.
A new study finds the mental health of young adults is the most affected by restrictions associated with COVID-19. Photo: Shutterstock
23 Aug 2021
Findings from UNSW research highlight different age groups urgently need targeted mental health responses.
In this video, watch how the SARS-CoV-2 virus takes over cells by ‘melting’ them into each other.
Researchers at UNSW Sydney’s Kirby Institute have developed cells that allow them to test the effect of SARS-CoV-2 faster than anywhere else in the world.
The team, led by Associate Professor Stuart Turville, use these genetically “supercharged” cells to quickly understand the dynamics of different variants of the virus, to test their ability to evade vaccines, and to inform the public health response in real time.
The scientists have now shared microscopic footage of the process – in their incredible video, you can see the healthy supercharged cells being taken over by the SARS-CoV-2 virus over a 20-hour period.
Photo: Shutterstock
20 Aug 2021
Feeling exhausted, unable to concentrate and wanting to withdraw and disconnect from the world and those around you? You could be heading towards burnout.
US marine scientist Dr Ayana Elizabeth Johnson says the ocean has absorbed a third of the carbon dioxide emitted by burning fossil fuels. Photo: Shutterstock.
23 Aug 2021
In a UNSW Science Week event, Dr Ayana Elizabeth Johnson said the key to fighting the climate crisis is saving the oceans.
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