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14 Oct 2016

Research and industry work together to create transport solutions

The world’s first urban laboratory, capable of testing and implementing emerging technologies at a large scale in complex urban environments, is now a step closer with a new partnership between Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS), a business unit of Cubic Corporation (NYSE: CUB) and the University of Melbourne.

12 Oct 2016

Atomic-scale MRI holds promise for new drug discovery

University of Melbourne researchers have developed a way to radically miniaturise a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine using atomic-scale quantum computer technology.

11 Oct 2016

Melbourne ahead again in world rankings

The University of Melbourne has recorded a significant achievement, moving up one place to 31 in the 2016 Performance of Scientific Papers for World Universities released today by National Taiwan University (NTU).

11 Oct 2016

Nanoscale engineering transforms particles into “Lego-like” building blocks

Researchers have developed a nanoscale engineering method that transforms tiny particles into “Lego-like” modular building blocks.

10 Oct 2016

New mammogram hotspots predict future breast cancers

Melbourne researchers have discovered a new way to interpret mammograms that could transform routine breast screening and save lives.

8 Oct 2016

Man Up: what makes blokes seek help?

With official figures showing suicides in Australia hit a record high last year, a world-first research partnership has found that TV can be a force for good for men’s mental health.

Labia library - Women's Health Victoria initiative

6 Oct 2016

One third of survey GPs field requests from under-18s for female genital cosmetic surgery

The authors of a world first study of GPs have found that girls as young as 15 are undergoing labiaplasties and other procedures, even though the medical consensus is that female genitalia do not reach maturity until around the age of 18.

5 Oct 2016

Cultural Collisions: Mavericks collide for festival first

Eight-time Edinburgh Festival Director Sir Jonathan Mills has devised and curated an entire precinct of the Melbourne Festival in collaboration with academics and students from the University of Melbourne.

5 Oct 2016

Concerns GPs are losing confidence to treat kids, as visit times drop

General practitioners are referring children more frequently to paediatricians, leading to blowouts in wait times and concerns that GPs are less confident in treating children with complex or chronic conditions.

New partnership for particle physics research

4 Oct 2016

America and Australia form new partnership in particle physics research

Fermilab, the USA’s major high energy physics laboratory, CoEPP, Australia’s primary centre for particle physics research and the University of Melbourne have forged a new research partnership.