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Congratulations to Professor Denis Burnham who has been elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA).

The MARCS Institute and Western Sydney University co-hosted the 18th annual international forum of high tech researchers last week at its Parramatta City campus, focusing on the latest research and industry developments in Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence.

A new pilot program has been developed to help transform the lives of patient's in aged care. Neuroscience research has identified music as one of the few activities that stimulates and uses the entire brain.

Dancing or tapping our feet to the beat of the drum - why do we do it?

What do Nelson Mandela and the Black Panther King of Wakanda have in common?

Imagine life without a voice. Around 300,000 people world-wide have had their larynx surgically removed as a result of cancer treatment, and the number is increasing by 10,000 every year.

Australia Day; it’s snags on the barbie, mozzies, long necks, Akubra hats and that all Aussie sun blazing through our SPF 50+. But what is it that makes good ol’ Straya so unique? Well, it’s the accent of course.

Women are less likely to trust robots who stare at them.Research by Dr Chris Stanton, a roboticist at the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, (Western Sydney University) investigated if the same physical elements that made humans trust one another could be applied to robotics.

New research has found that Australian babies fare better than babies of other English speaking countries at word learning.

New research findings discovered that Choirboys can actually use their voices to sexually compete to win favour with the opposite sex.