2017

Media reports on standing desks overplayed the dangers of sitting at work, incorrectly saying it wiped out the benefits of exercise, writes Dr Josephine Chau.

As we churn through more data, cloud computing centres are overheating. Photonic chip technology offers a way forward for our insatiable appetite for information.

Researchers have found the Goldilocks zone for animals lies in being mid-sized, with apex predators over-hunted and small vertebrates like pollinators threatened by habitat changes because they cannot move far from home.

University of Sydney staff have received four Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning, as part of the federal government's Australian Awards for University Teaching.

Thirty students from the University of Sydney will represent Australia at the Enactus World Cup in London next week, after triumphing over fifteen other universities at the Nationals Conference earlier this year.

REM sleep behaviour disorder is a precursor to neurological diseases including Parkinson's Disease and Lewy Body Dementia.

Australia's potential to become a more active player in the world's growing 'space economy' is being bolstered by the efforts of the next generation of Australian aerospace engineers.

Caring for pets can be a joy as well as a challenge. Veterinarian Dr Anne Fawcett shares her top five tips for ethical pet ownership during this episode of the University’s Open for Discussion podcast.

The University of Sydney hosted a celebration of diverse traditional and contemporary Indigenous culture from different sides of the world, in collaboration with Minzu University of China and the State Ethnic Affairs Commission.

The new media reform laws do nothing to address the underlying problem of an increasingly concentrated media landscape, argues Associate Professor Tim Dwyer from the Department of Media and Communications.

What are the causes, signs and symptoms of the sleep disorder, insomnia? The University of Sydney's Dr Chris Gordon explains. 

Introducing Mikey Mendoza and Amar Hadid, recipients of an Australian-first scholarship for skateboarding at the University of Sydney.

New research has found that some breast cancer trials are failing to provide appropriate control group treatments, affecting the outcomes of these studies.

Engineering extraordinaire, Professor Salah Sukkarieh, tackles what it means to be human in the wake of artificial intelligence.

Most of us walk through life never having to think about the fact that we can see clearly. But for many Australians, loss of vision is a real problem - and it can be especially scary when it comes out of the blue.

University of Sydney graduates have been named the most employable in Australia for the third year running and in the top 5 globally, according to the 2018 QS Graduate Employability Rankings.

More than a quarter of biomedical scientific papers may utilise practices that distort the interpretation of results or mislead readers so that results are viewed more favourably, a new University of Sydney study suggests. 

Scientists have measured how a galaxy's spin affects its shape - and found faster-spinning galaxies are flatter and rounder. The discovery was made sampling 845 galaxies and could help provide insights into a galaxy's past.