2024

10 April 2024

Sydney leads new trial of youth vaping schools program

The University of Sydney is leading a new approach to reduce the number of young people vaping and smoking in a trial in schools across the country.

10 April 2024

A once-dormant magnetic neutron star is emitting strangely polarised light

Magnetars are neutron stars with strong magnetic fields. With CSIRO astronomers, Dr Manisha Caleb from the School of Physics has found one of the most powerful magnets discovered - XTE J1810-197 - and it doesn't quite fit existing theory.

08 April 2024

Chinese investment in Australia falls to second lowest level since 2006

Chinese investment in Australia has diversified but plateaued, the latest report from The University of Sydney Business School and KPMG reveals.

05 April 2024

ABBA: 50 years since Waterloo

Dr Jadey O'Regan, lecturer in Contemporary Music Practice at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, recalls the magic of ABBA's Waterloo as the group releases a 50th anniversary edition of their classic pop album.

05 April 2024

New privacy-preserving robotic cameras obscure images beyond human recognition

Robotic researchers have developed a new approach to designing cameras, which they say could help protect the images and data collected by smart home devices and internet-of-things technology.

04 April 2024

Museum removes Egyptian body parts from galleries

The Chau Chak Wing Museum has this week removed unwrapped mummified body parts from its Egyptian galleries.

04 April 2024

Galaxies get more chaotic as they age

Research led by Professor Scott Croom from ASTRO 3D and the School of Physics has ruled out mass and environmental factors as the main drivers of increasing galactic chaos. Data from more than 3000 galaxies has shown it is age that leads to relative 'disorganisation' in galactic structure.

04 April 2024

Programs to support students on placement need careful design

Australians will suffer if we don't address a looming critical skills shortage in the health workforce. To meet future healthcare needs, we should address "placement poverty" as an equity measure writes Professor Robyn Ward in The Australian.

04 April 2024

Ozempic isn't approved for weight loss in Australia. So how are people accessing it?

Hundreds of thousands of people worldwide are taking drugs like Ozempic to lose weight. But what do we actually know about them? Jessica Pace, Associate Lecturer and co-authors from the School of Pharmacy unpacks the details.

04 April 2024

Historic grant to improve intersex people's health and wellbeing

A University of Sydney-led research project has been awarded funding from the Medical Research Future Fund to improve the health and wellbeing of people of all ages with innate variations in sex characteristics.