Dr Maja Adamska is flipping through a textbook, and stops to show a photo of what looks like a lumpy blob.

A team of international scientists has quantified the threat that climate change poses to nine staple food crops in sub-Saharan Africa and outlined actions and timelines needed to adapt to head off the risk of crop and food shortages.

The University has used International Women's Day to strengthen its commitment to gender equity.

A culture that is overtly anti-sexist can still implicitly associate science with masculinism, according to CPAS academic Lindy Orthia and anthropologist Rachel Morgain.

Scientists developing fusion energy experiments have solved a puzzle of why their million-degree heating beams sometimes fail, and instead destabilise the fusion experiments before energy is generated.

“For my research project, I’m part of a team looking at climate change that took place 40 to 50 million years ago, when the Earth transitioned from ‘greenhouse’ to ‘icehouse’.

Imagine having a smash-hit YouTube channel with millions of viewers who tune in to watch you talk about your passion.

Professor Gordon Lister is a tectonicist and structural geologist. In other words, a rock-whisperer.

Ecologists have found that Murray crayfish numbers plunged 90 per cent in a high country river after their habitat was lost.