This archive covers milestones and breakthroughs from the scientific and academic world — researchers, universities, and institutions whose work advances human knowledge. Stories here highlight discoveries, studies, and scholarly efforts that point toward a better future.
In a move that will make the Sydney institution the world’s first university to be energy carbon neutral, the University of New South Wales has inked a deal to meet all its electricity needs with solar energy from next year onwards.
A new report recently published by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), predicts the cost of renewable energy will experience a noticeable drop by 2020, putting it on par with, or cheaper than, fossil fuels.
Ebola outbreaks may soon be predictable — and that changes how the world can respond. Scientists analyzing satellite data and outbreak records across the Congo basin found a consistent two-year gap between forest loss and Ebola emerging in that same location, pointing to displaced fruit bats moving toward human settlements as habitat disappears. That window could give health workers and governments time to direct resources before a single case appears. Transmission mechanisms aren’t fully understood and building a real-time tool remains a serious challenge — but ecology-based prevention could reshape how the world fights infectious disease at its roots.
The discovery, which involves “silencing” the Hippo pathway in the heart, could lead to better treatments for those at risk of heart failure potentially ones that could eliminate the condition entirely.
Applicants for Murray Edwards College will simply have to identify as a woman at the time they submit their application.
Nuclear fusion could produce a potentially limitless supply of clean energy without producing dirty waste or any significant amount of carbon emissions.
In lab settings, using mice and human tissue samples, researchers were able to correctly identify lung, ovary, thyroid, and breast cancers and do so with around 93% accuracy.
A team of researchers from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, Australia created the biggest perovskite solar cell so far, also setting a new efficiency record with it.
For the third time in recent years, a child born with H.I.V. has been found free of the virus for a long period after a high dose of treatment early in life.
Last week WHO announced that one of several potential malaria vaccines in development has made it through a crucial phase of trials and is now ready to be tested in the field.
