Student Life

Gambling rates dropped during height of COVID restrictions

Gambling rates in Australia dropped off significantly during the height of COVID-19 restrictions, before increasing again over the past six months...

Vitamin supplements may have small effect on COVID-19 risk for women

Researchers at King’s analysing data from an app have found that certain vitamin supplements may have a small effect on reducing the likelihood of catching COVID-19 for women but not men.

Reckoning with Australia’s colonial archive: poet Natalie Harkin wins RAKA Prize

Narungga woman and South Australian poet, Natalie Harkin has won the 2020 Kate Challis RAKA Award for her work Archival-Poetics, an unflinching anthology that faces the violence...

Genre-defying work wins 2020 Adam Foundation Prize

A genre-defying work that examiners describe as being “of great significance” has been awarded the IIML 2020 Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing.

Ringo Starr of the bird world heading for extinction

New research from The Australian National University shows palm cockatoos, renowned for their human-like musical drumming behaviour, are threatened with extinction.

Waikato University computer science students help Africa medical charity

An international charity which finds sponsorship for medical students to study in Africa has had a helping hand from a team of Waikato University computer science students.

“Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs” wins Cundill History Prize

Camilla Townsend receives US$75,000 – the largest reward for a work of non-fiction in English – for the first-ever history based solely on texts written by the Aztec people.

New Research Points to Effective Ways to Influence Engagement and Increase Support for Addressing...

Researchers have found that information about economic inequality focusing on the disadvantages facing people from the lower-socioeconomic class leads...