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After countless summer music festivals were cancelled during the pandemic over the last two years, there’s a sense that young people – and the odd oldie too – can’t wait to get back amongst it in the moshpits and on the dancefloor.But…

Medical professionals are calling for tighter restrictions on the sale of nitrous oxide gas cartridges, colloquially known as ‘nangs’, due to potentially serious harm for users including lasting neurological damage. Nitrous oxide or…

Women are changing the world and UNSW Sydney women are leading the way. In the last month, two academics were named among the Best Female Scientists in the World – and top five in Australia – as ranked by Research.com, while five women –…

More than 30 UNSW academics are among the world’s most influential in their fields, according to the annual Highly Cited Researchers list from Clarivate. With 34 researchers included, UNSW is ranked in third place in Australia and…

A coalition of human rights organisations and academics are calling on the federal government to overhaul Australia's modern slavery laws. A major investigation has found, three years into the Modern Slavery Act’s operation, that…

UNSW Sydney has received more than $2.3 million in Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) grants for two projects led by researchers from UNSW Science and UNSW Medicine & Health.The…

The last of the temnospondyls – amphibians that look more like crocodiles – became extinct during the Cretaceous period, about 120 million years ago, after thriving on Earth for more than 200 million years.Now a team of scientists led by…

Suicidal behaviour is evident in children, with some as young as 10 presenting to hospitals and emergency departments following a self-harm episode – some on multiple occasions.Research has found 6055 adolescents aged 10–14 attended an…

UNSW Sydney researchers will aim to provide a better understanding of brain inflammation in people with schizophrenia and speed up the development of new treatments for schizophrenia after they were awarded $3 million in funding from NSW…

An international team of astronomers have turned a new technique onto the faint light between galaxies – known as ‘intra-group light’ – to characterise the stars that dwell there.Lead author of the study published in MNRAS, Dr Cristina…