2017

Sharing your mobile phone's resources with people around you could cut your mobile costs, claim researchers from the University of Sydney's School of Information Technologies.

In our new normal, experts are dismissed and alternative facts flagrantly offered, writes Professor Nick Enfield.

It's not just our eyes that play tricks on us, but our ears. That's the finding of a landmark Australian-led collaboration that provides new evidence that oscillations, or 'strobes', are a general feature of human perception

Museums can play a key role in the protection of shipwrecks, alongside strategic recovery and legislative steps, writes PhD candidate Natali Pearson.

Australia's leading pancreatic cancer researchers are working to double the number of people who survive the disease by 2020.

The University of Sydney's Dr Carrie Tsai explains the importance of children visiting the dentist regularly and how parents can prepare their child for the trip. 

Seven University of Sydney academics have been recognised in the 2017 Highly Cited Researchers List, placing them among the world's most influential. Their research was ranked in the top one percent of most referenced papers.

The Founding Director of the University's Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies has been recognised as one of the world's most influential transport economists according to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Dr Linda Beeney has received funding to investigate the best way clinicians can communicate with diabetes patients.

Open-heart surgery to address the most common cardiorespiratory disease in dogs has been performed for the first time in Australia, at the University of Sydney's Veterinary Teaching Hospital.  

More than 1 million injections have been supervised in Sydney's Safe Injecting Facility with no fatalities occurring since the centre opened in 2001.

With a new shared pool of minors and majors being offered from 2018, we asked some recent Science graduates how studying complimentary units influenced their university experience and beyond.

In 2018 the Sydney Undergraduate Experience will launch our reimagined curriculum. But what do the changes mean for those studying Science? And what do future students need to consider when making their choice of degree?

Indian immigrant and software engineering student Karthik Balasubramanian has made his mark on Sydney's hackathon scene after winning three high-profile competitions in less than a year.

A scorecard about the Earth - graphically illustrating trends since the majority of Nobel Laureates signed the initial warning - has gone viral and attracted what is thought to be the most signatories to any scientific paper.

Revisions to major international guidelines for the management and treatment of low back pain should see changes to practice worldwide.

In the lead-up to World Diabetes Day 2017, newly appointed Associate Professor Samantha Hocking is determined to challenge the one-size-fits-all approach to treatment.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian announces a state government investment of $7.6m to create the Sydney Institute for Community Languages Education (SICLE).

Food security, epigenetics, media ownership and space weather are among the topics that will be investigated as part of a $28 million funding injection to Sydney research from the Australian Research Council (ARC).