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With the high calibre of Macquarie’s courses and teaching staff, it is not surprising that their graduates are highly sought after: Macquarie’s graduate starting salaries have been amongst the highest in Australia for more than a decade (The Good Universities Guide 1998-2011). About us As a Macquarie University student you will join a diverse and […] … learn more→

The controversy over Wikileaks has, at least temporarily, shifted its focus from the website’s founder Julian Assange to suspected informant Private First Class Bradley Manning. Manning will face his accuser, the United States of America, at a pre-trial hearing, and the allegation that he delivered thousands of pages of US government documents to Wikileaks. In […] … learn more→

Scientists discover why buttercups reflect yellow on chins – and it doesn’t have anything to do with whether you like butter. The new research sheds light on children’s game and provides insight into pollination. Scientists have found that the distinctive glossiness of the buttercup flower (Ranunculus repens), which children like to shine under the chin […] … learn more→

As the warm temperatures of spring start a little earlier each year due to climate change, bees and plants are keeping pace, according to a new study. An analysis of bee collection data over the past 130 years shows that spring arrives about 10 days earlier than in the 1880s, and bees and flowering plants […] … learn more→

A father in Louisiana bludgeoned and beheaded his disabled 7-year-old son last August because he no longer wanted to care for the boy. For most people, such a heinous act is unconscionable. But it may be that a person can become callous enough to commit human atrocities because of a failure in the part of […] … learn more→

A Brooklyn church received a bountiful harvest of fresh fruits and vegetables this past Thanksgiving courtesy of a Cornell University Cooperative Extension-New York City (CUCE-NYC) program called MarketMaker that links nearly 2,000 small food producers with such potential buyers as individuals, restaurants and institutions. MarketMaker is a database system developed by the University of Illinois […] … learn more→

This week scientists at the Large Hadron Collider announced tantalising news about the biggest piece missing from the physics jigsaw. The Higgs boson is a hypothetical particle used to explain why many of the fundamental particles in the Standard Model of particle physics have mass. Proving if it exists is tricky because the model doesn\’t […] … learn more→

The pace of solar energy development is accelerating as the installation of rooftop solar water heaters takes off. Unlike solar photovoltaic (PV) panels that convert solar radiation into electricity, these \”solar thermal collectors\” use the sun\’s energy to heat water, space, or both. … learn more→

It\’s easy to get in a jam. But it\’s much harder to explain exactly how or when it started. Scientists still aren\’t sure what causes clogs in flowing macroscopic particles, like corn, coffee beans and coal chunks. But new experiments by Duke physicist Robert Behringer and his colleagues suggest that when particles undergo a force […] … learn more→