University Of New South Wales

UNSW Sydney has extended its meteoric rise in the Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings, jumping 37 places to equal 18th place globally in the 2023 edition.Among the highlights, the University rose to second in the world for SDG 13…

Dr Stephen Rodda has been appointed the inaugural Pro Vice-Chancellor, Industry & Innovation at UNSW Sydney. A research commercialisation specialist and executive leader with more than 16 years of experience, he joins UNSW Sydney from…

Did you know the US National Earthquake Information Centre logs the measurements of 20,000 earthquakes around the globe each year – approximately 55 a day?A concern that most people might not immediately consider is the impact on tailings…

A ten-year study into the impact of HIV ‘treatment as prevention’ has found that a 27 per cent increase in people accessing effective HIV treatment saw HIV infections decrease by 66 per cent between 2010 to 2019, in NSW and Victoria. The…

People who persistently engage in behaviour that causes them harm may be suffering not so much from an unwillingness to change, but a learning problem where they create logical, but ultimately wrong explanations for why they have…

Living in shallow ocean waters off a third of the world’s coastlines are vibrant jungles of brown seaweed called kelp forests. These underwater canopies support a wealth of biodiversity and, according to new estimates, could be worth…

Researchers at UNSW Sydney and Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA) have developed and evaluated a tool for assessing dementia risk, with promising initial results. Currently, over 55 million people are living with dementia around the…

Malaria is among the oldest of human diseases. There are traces of Plasmodium, the parasite that causes malaria, in ancient Egyptian mummies. Some records say that Alexander the Great died in 323 BCE from malaria.“It’s clearly a very…

The discovery of variants of an inflammation ‘brake’ gene brings scientists a step closer to personalised treatment for people at risk of kidney disease and kidney failure. Researchers at UNSW Sydney, the Garvan Institute of Medical…

Smartphones could one day become portable quantum sensors thanks to a new chip-scale approach that uses organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) to image magnetic fields, with significant implications for use in healthcare and industry…