Mutant lab:Is this Australia’s new defence against COVID variants?

Mutant lab:Is this Australia’s new defence against COVID variants?

Deep inside a layer of concrete and a few centimetres of steel sits a lab it is hoped will be key to keeping Australia safe from vaccine-busting coronavirus variants.

  • byLiam Mannix

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Australian universities are dying and no one is coming to save them

Australian universities are dying and no one is coming to save them

The stories shared over the last few days by distraught academics have been utterly awful.

  • byJenna Price
Bring them home:why we can’t leave Australians stranded in India

Bring them home:why we can’t leave Australians stranded in India

It may be too late,when flights resume,for the most vulnerable Australian citizens and residents stranded amid India’s pandemic crisis.

  • byRegina Jefferies andJane McAdam
Sixth sense:the science behind intuition

Sixth sense:the science behind intuition

We’ve all had moments when a “gut feeling” – whether good or bad – affects our judgment. And while often dismissed as spiritual mumbo jumbo,this sixth sense may be scientifically provable.

  • byAmanda Hooton
‘There’ll be a shakeup’:International student intakes plunge compared to pre-pandemic levels

‘There’ll be a shakeup’:International student intakes plunge compared to pre-pandemic levels

Some universities in NSW and Victoria saw declines of more than 30 per cent in their pipeline of new overseas student intakes for semester one,while the University of Queensland grew its overseas intake.

  • byLisa Visentin
Concerns that AstraZeneca clotting case may hurt public confidence in vaccine

Concerns that AstraZeneca clotting case may hurt public confidence in vaccine

Experts are concerned that the hospitalisation of a Melbourne man with blood clots after he was given the AstraZeneca vaccine may dent public confidence in the jab.

  • byTom Cowie
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‘A redo of first year’:Second-year uni students finally get a taste of campus life

‘A redo of first year’:Second-year uni students finally get a taste of campus life

University campuses are returning to normal with students hanging out on the lawns,going for drinks at the uni bar and joining clubs and sporting teams.

  • byCaitlin Fitzsimmons
How women rode wave to equality

How women rode wave to equality

Australian Jessi Miley-Dyer,recently named second-in-charge at the World Surf League,says surfing is at the forefront of sporting equality.

  • byHeath Gilmore
Why charge solar homes for sending energy to the grid while coal generators get off scot-free?
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Renewables

Why charge solar homes for sending energy to the grid while coal generators get off scot-free?

Charging solar owners to export electricity isn’t about fairness,it’s about keeping the power in the hands of the few.

  • byEllen Roberts
The universities with the most unhappy students during the pandemic

The universities with the most unhappy students during the pandemic

New figures show how badly disengaged university students felt from their lessons during a year of remote learning,amid months of crowded online tutorials,staff cuts and uncertainty about the future.

  • byJordan Baker
Sandstone snakepit:New Sydney uni boss faces academics’ ire
Analysis
University

Sandstone snakepit:New Sydney uni boss faces academics’ ire

Former ABC managing director Mark Scott will have to navigate the “thinly disguised prejudice between academics and non-academic staff” when he becomes vice-chancellor.

  • byJordan Baker