They are up there with Scrabble and Monopoly.

Dr Mark Wood’s hands-on puzzles have been the biggest sellers in a couple of Australia’s leading department store toy sections for the past five years and have won numerous awards here and in the US and the UK.

Like you and I, John*, a research volunteer for the B-VITAge study, has personal goals.  On face value, John is a pretty ordinary bloke, sixty five years old, tertiary educated and gainfully employed.  John, however, has been feeling trapped and not able to move forward because of depression.  He has been feeling like this for over 30 years.

The University of Western Australia today signed two memoranda of understanding (MOU) with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, furthering the University's links with international collaborators as it aims to be counted among the world's top 50 universities by 2050.

Recent research conducted at The University of Western Australia (UWA) School of Animal Biology and Institute of Agriculture (IOA) has shown that when it comes to getting sheep in the mood and those reproductive juices flowing, nothing beats a little novelty. 

Linguists at The University of Western Australia are in a race against time to understand how Australian Aboriginal languages conceptualise time, before their last speakers die.

A language professor from The University of Western Australia is researching remnants of French culture in ex-colonies throughout the world - and in the process, sampling croissants and coffee in unlikely places.

A WA-led international team of researchers has made an important discovery about geological processes that were active in the early Earth, more than 2.7 billion years ago.

Perth researchers are about to begin testing of a new vaccine to protect against swine flu in children.

Photo courtesy of Barbara Knott

The lack of knowledge about the importance of pollination in restoring native ecosystems is threatening the successful restoration of global biodiversity hotspots, according to Professor Kingsley Dixon, of The University of Western Australia.