The Latest Breaking News from Academics

Imagine you have years-worth of research and it is dismissed by a 15-word rejection letter from a journal editor. That has happened to us.

Intellectual watchdog Phil Magness talks Nikole Hannah-Jones, Nancy MacLean, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, and Kevin Kruse.

From defensive flooding to buffer zones, using the natural world in conflict is as old as war itself – now academics have given it a name

ABERTAY University paid tribute to one of its academics as a body was found after he was reported missing.

Twin academics Perry Zurn and Dani S Bassett fought to forge idiosyncratic paths through academia… then put that knowledge to use in a seven-year study of how we learn

Learning to write in 'textspeak' doesn't undermine our language, according to Australian academics, it actually enriches the way we communicate with each other.

This week Education Minister Jason Clare has kicked off what could be a major reset of university research funding in Australia.

The recent leak of 124,000 confidential Uber documents has shed light on some of the ethically questionable activities that have arguably helped fuel the ride-hailing company’s global rise. Among allegations of law breaking and the secret lobbying of government figures, the “Uber files” show that the company paid academics to…

Researchers and Greens raise concerns about ‘national interest test’ introduced by Coalition which Labor has signalled will remain