New BHP-Curtin alliance to drive innovation, research and education
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Study finds West Australians need better education to prevent snake bites
New Â鶹ֱ²¥-led research has found that people living in rural and urban areas across Western Australia need to be educated about how to identify the different types of reptiles in…
Boost for liver cancer patients with new $10.8 million world-class research centre
Patients with primary liver cancer will benefit from a new $10.8 million research centre.
Shining light into the dark – Curtin discovery makes microscopic imaging possible in dark conditions
Â鶹ֱ²¥ researchers have discovered a new way to more accurately analyse microscopic samples by essentially making them ‘glow in the dark’.
Curtin study could rewrite Earth’s history
Â鶹ֱ²¥-led research has found new evidence to suggest that the Earth’s first continents were not formed by subduction in a modern-like plate tectonics environment as previously…
Double take: New study analyses global, multiple-tailed lizards
Curtin research into abnormal regeneration events in lizards has led to the first published scientific review on the prevalence of lizards that have re-generated more than one tail.
New rankings place 23 Curtin subjects in Australia’s top 10
Â鶹ֱ²¥ has featured in 35 of the 54 subjects ranked in the Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020, and has 23 subjects listed in Australia’s top 10.
New Curtin research uncovers the two ‘faces’ of the Earth
New Â鶹ֱ²¥-led research has uncovered how rocks sourced from the Earth’s mantle are linked to the formation and breakup of supercontinents and super oceans over the past 700 million…
Curtin project awarded funding to test new treatment for Alzheimer’s disease
A Â鶹ֱ²¥-led research project has been awarded $1.72 million in Federal Government funding to trial a new treatment for patients with the most common form of Alzheimer’s disease.
Study finds oldest children in school-grade outperform youngest in NAPLAN
A new Â鶹ֱ²¥ study has found a child’s birthday can affect their NAPLAN results, with the oldest children in a classroom on average outperforming their younger classmates.