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- Monday 21st November 2011
Australian ICT Research and Cooperation priorities
[more information] Australia remains a strategic location for ICT activities with a global and regional focus and many global ICT companies have…
- Tuesday 15th November 2011
Austerity threatens autonomy, EUA warns
[more information] An authoritative study of university autonomy across 26 European countries has found “worrying signs” that the economic…
- Monday 7th November 2011
Marine and land species on the move in the face of climate change
[more information] An international team of scientists has found that organisms either adapt or move to track changes in environments, in both…
- Wednesday 2nd November 2011
$1.3 million additional funding for research exchange with Germany
[more information] The Group of Eight (Go8) and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) today announced a further $1.3 million of funding for…
- Monday 31st October 2011
R&D investment scoreboard: measuring the world’s R&D appetite
[more information] The annual “EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard” measures the appetite of the world’s largest R&D investors…
- Wednesday 12th October 2011
Looking inside the quantum world
[more information] An international team of scientists may have found a way to study the elusive quantum behaviour of large ‘macroscopic’…
- Tuesday 11th October 2011
Scientists unwrap mystery of world's first explorers
[more information] An international team of scientists has discovered that Aboriginal Australians descend directly from an early human expansion…
- Friday 30th September 2011
Scientists penetrate ancient cranium with sophisticated technology
[more information] More than 80 scientists from Australia, Germany, South Africa, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States have…
- Sunday 25th September 2011
What role for the EU in an era of austerity?
[more information] How does the recession affect higher education in Europe and what impact will it have in the future? Public funding represents…
- Thursday 22nd September 2011
Researchers make case for continuation of innovative virtual patient project
[more information] A pilot EU project that could revolutionise medical care was presented to policymakers and researchers at a hearing on Tuesday…
- Sunday 18th September 2011
Internationalisation moves into a new phase
[more information] The current state of international higher education is under discussion. What are the perils and pitfalls for international…
- Friday 9th September 2011
Report shows deep-sea fishing is unsustainable
[more information] The deep sea, the planet’s biggest ecosystem, is in trouble, an international research team says, underling the need to stop…
- Friday 9th September 2011
Living out Einstein's dreams - French researchers make quantum breakthrough
[more information] A team of EU-funded researchers has, for the first time, successfully carried out a constant stabilisation experiment of a…
- Thursday 1st September 2011
Industry and academic actors from chemistry world agree on new bioactive molecule standard
[more information] Representatives of pharmaceutical companies, data resource providers and academic groups have come to an agreement on a new…
- Thursday 1st September 2011
Open access may have unequal benefits
[more information] Open access is seen by many as the publishing model that is most in keeping with the egalitarian ethos of academia. But a paper…
- Monday 29th August 2011
Sparkling astronomical discovery: diamond planet in Milky Way
[more information] An international team of astronomers has discovered the existence of a planet made out of diamond in the Milky Way. The…
- Tuesday 23rd August 2011
Digital Agenda: EU funded research helps astronomers see the bigger picture
[more information] A groundbreaking technique to produce real-time, high-resolution images of distant galaxies has been developed by astronomers…
- Friday 12th August 2011
Biofuels boost from European researchers
[more information] Despite being an attractive energy source in both environmental and economic terms, biofuels can have a corrosive effect on…
- Wednesday 13th July 2011
Pacific and European researchers meet in Brisbane for bi-regional dialogue
[more information] The first bi-regional platform of the PACE-Net project was held last week in Brisbane with more than 60 participants from…
- Friday 1st July 2011
Redefinition of “seawater” to aid climate research
[more information] The science behind understanding the movement of heat through the world’s deep oceans is entering a more exact phase with the…
- Tuesday 28th June 2011
How water spiders breathe below the surface
[more information] Diving bell spiders may have no gills but they have successfully found a niche under water, calling that environment home. But…
- Tuesday 28th June 2011
New ‘plant dictionary’ realised after global research collaboration
[more information] If you need to look up a fact about a plant’s functional properties, then a new plant database developed by an international…
- Friday 17th June 2011
German scientists open access to E. coli gene database for use in drug discovery
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- Friday 10th June 2011
Australia joins the hunt for the secrets of the Universe
[more information] Australian scientists might find out how our universe began and where extra dimensions came from thanks to the Australian…
- Thursday 2nd June 2011
NICTA joins SECUNET to deliver highly secure computing
[more information] NICTA and German IT security specialist secunet Security Networks AG have entered a strategic research collaboration to develop…