21 Sep 2016 Pholiota unlocked: ‘most perfect and cheapest house’ reborn for Cultural Collisions A full-scale replica of Walter Burley Griffin and Marian Mahony Griffin’s cutting-edge home is being constructed by Melbourne School of Design students as part of the Melbourne Festival’s Cultural Collisions precinct at the University of Melbourne.
20 Sep 2016 Fewer homes among the gum trees, new research warns Australians could see fewer suitable environments for the country’s iconic eucalypt trees within a generation, according to a new international research project.
19 Sep 2016 Sir Jonathan Mills presents Ethereal Eye at the University of Melbourne A revised score of Sir Jonathan Mills’ acclaimed Ethereal Eye will be performed as part of Cultural Collisions, the University of Melbourne’s contribution to the 2016 Melbourne Festival.
13 Sep 2016 Killing superbugs with star-shaped polymers, not antibiotics Tiny, star-shaped molecules are effective at killing bacteria that can no longer be killed by current antibiotics, new research shows.
12 Sep 2016 World’s most powerful X-ray takes a ‘sledgehammer’ to molecules An international team of more than 20 scientists has inadvertently discovered how to create a new type of crystal using light more than 10 billion times brighter than the sun.
9 Sep 2016 Weed wars: survival of the fittest vs genetic ‘superspecies’? In what may be good news for Australian biosecurity, when invading plant species mate with other plants, they do not always produce a new ‘superspecies’.
9 Sep 2016 When doctors and parents disagree: clinical ‘best’ not always best for family A University of Melbourne ethicist is encouraging doctors to recognise the autonomy of parents, even if this could mean “less than optimal” treatment decisions for their children.
8 Sep 2016 Renewable energy focus for new ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science The University of Melbourne will host a new international research hub dedicated to making Australia more economically competitive through better energy use.
7 Sep 2016 World-first Journalism MOOC gets another run The University of Melbourne’s Centre for Advancing Journalism will offer its online Journalism course again this year after last year’s inaugural course attracted 13 670 enrollments from 178 countries.
5 Sep 2016 Global crowdsourcing contest to predict epileptic seizures begins An online contest in association with online platform Kaggle, the Mayo Clinic and University of Pennsylvania will let the globe’s keenest data scientists loose on the holy grail of epilepsy research — an algorithm that can predict seizures — using data from patients that has never before been available to researchers.