UM’s residential colleges organise activities to help secondary school students plan for further studies
The residential colleges at the University of Macau (UM) have organised a series of activities for local secondary school students, to enable them to experience life in the RCs and to gain a better...
University of Manchester and SPIE announce $1million endowment for postgraduate scholarships
The University of Manchester and SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics have announced the establishment of the SPIE-Manchester Postgraduate Scholarship in Photonics.
Iris and Matthew Strauss Give $2 Million to Endow Faculty Chair at UC San...
Iris and Matthew Strauss, longtime supporters of cancer research and patient care at Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health, have given $2 million to establish the Iris and Matthew Strauss Chancellor’s...
Economic abuse affects one in seven NZ women
Economic abuse compounds other forms of violence and pushes NZ women into poverty, new research finds.
Software tool breathes life into post-COVID office airflow
As offices nationwide spring back to life, interior space designers and architects will soon have an easy-to-use planning tool to put indoor workplace furniture, staff and partitions – quite literally – in their proper place.
Can mRNA vaccines help boost livestock production?
University of Queensland researchers say mRNA vaccine technology could play an important role in boosting livestock production to meet global food demands.
The success of Iceland’s ‘four-day week’ has been overstated
Iceland has trialled shorter working hours, not a four-day work week, but there are some positive takeaways, writes Adjunct Professor Tony Veal.
New book celebrates NZ’s ‘six-legged ghosts’
New Zealand insects, whose lives are often invisible to city-dwellers, are put under the microscope in a new, richly illustrated book.
Solving solar puzzle could help save Earth from planet-wide blackouts
Could solar storms knock out the global internet? Yes, but we don't know when or how it could happen. Mathematician Dr Geoffrey Vasil has proposed a new understanding of the Sun's convection zone to help.
Two-dimensional nanomaterial sets record for expert-defying, counter-intuitive expansion
It is a common hack to stretch a balloon out to make it easier to inflate. When the balloon stretches, the width crosswise shrinks to the size of a string.
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