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An international team has developed a series of maps showing how fast and in which direction local climates have shifted, to illuminate species at risk worldwide.
Big figure leaves LaTrobe over complementary conflict
A chief health academic has resigned over perceived conflicts in a $15 million complementary health research deal.
Big new crew, same few captains in WA
Western Australia has eleven thousand new state school students this year, but they will be taught by the same amount of teachers as before.
Cost cuts hit Indigenous education officers
Money-saving measures have hit hard in Western Australian Indigenous education, with more than 100 full-time Aboriginal and Islander Education Officers (AIEO) asking what the state government intends to do without them.
Feeling bionic hand makes mechanical sense
A Danish man has become the first in the world to be fitted with a prosthetic hand that can feel.
$70 mil for self-owned schools seen as unhelpful distraction
Seventy million dollars will be spent in an effort to convert 25 per cent of public schools to the Independent Public School model, with Federal Education Minister Christopher Pyne now announcing a special ambassador to help make it happen.
Hammer to fall on five failed schools
One state’s Education Department is recouping its losses from failed schools, selling the buildings and the land on which they sat.
Evolution reaches across time and face
Timing is indeed crucial, with a new paper finding time is the difference between fear and surprise in facial expressions.
New field, new ideas as data and science mingle
Just as answering one question leads to several more, developments in one scientific field often create entirely new areas of study.
Once-hot rocks hold old secrets, pushing first life back eons
New research could shake our understanding of the origins of life on Earth, setting the date back about a billion years.
Tests to find we can really know in weird quantum world
A team from the University of Queensland is not so sure about Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle.
Search for life in space descends to smaller scale
A new technique could help scientists sift through space dust for the ingredients to make life.
Novel approach finds likely source of autistic habit
Many who work with autistic children and adults are aware of the habit of ‘withdrawal into self’, but a new study has shed some light on where the characteristic might come from.
Video shows big effort for bigger dish to catch tiny travellers
The United States’ Department of Energy has posted a video to show the construction of an incredibly large neutrino detector.
Billion lost as millions left by the educational wayside
While many complain about the specifics of high school curricula and broad educational ideas, it is worth remembering that for a huge portion of the planet the most basic schooling is out of reach.
Funding deal to give money for marks
Queensland schools will have to prove they are improving to secure federal funds.
Stress brings potent cellular game-changer
A new technique is being developed that would allow human cells to be turned back into stem cells, and grown into virtually any body part.
Young brains bear fruit beyond their years
Some astounding inventions have shown the high level of creativity in the minds of Australian high-schoolers.
Check-up for ancient plague finds black link in DNA
Modern science has found a tiny culprit in an ancient mystery – shedding light on what killed around half the population of Europe, twice.
Doors open on new site to see how we pick and choose
The University of South Australia has decided to open the doors on a new research institute dedicated to the many choices we have to make.
New hub keeps icy experts close, but free from cold
A major hub has been opened which will see many of the world’s leading experts working close to Antarctica, basking in the relative comfort of Hobart.