The Latest Breaking News from STEM

It will be a crime to strangle a person without killing them, under Victorian laws to stamp out the scourge of domestic violence.

'We can show the kids what jobs are available and what they need to do to get there.'

Switching off and draining a sprinkler system will prevent pipes or sprinkler heads breaking in winter

A Melbourne research institute will become the second place in the world to trial a stem cell therapy for a rare genetic condition.

MoST seeks to raise retirement age of scientists to 65 to stem flight of top scientists to universities/IITs. Proposal under discussion; DBT has sent details of eligible scientists for evaluation. Government has previously mooted raising retirement age to bring parity in service conditions. Modi govt. has done away with extensions,…

Beauty queen Jessica Gagen to speak at space conference, tour Kennedy Space Center, and promote STEM education

Australia has a stem cell donation problem. Because of this problem, there is an urgent need for donations from male patients aged 18-35.

With the pandemic behind us, women are returning to the workforce in droves–but those in STEM fields are still facing its professional repercussions.

College students learn more calculus in an active learning course in which students solve problems during class than in a traditional lecture-based course. That’s according to a peer-reviewed study my colleagues and I published in Science. We also found that college students better understood complex calculus concepts and earned better…

Editorial: An overhaul of qualifications is a good idea. But ambitious schemes to bridge the academic-vocational and Stem-humanities divides will have to wait

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