Charles Sturt University research has shown that computers can considerably improve the quality of school students’ learning experiences in mathematics.

The Prime Minister today announced that water allocations in the Murray-Darling basin will be frozen if significant rains do not fall in the next eight weeks. Once again, water is high on the national agenda.

In a bid to help overcome the critical lack of scientists and science teachers, especially in inland Australia, Charles Sturt University will offer lucrative targeted scholarships to encourage high-quality on-campus applicants to science-based fields.

A Charles Sturt University (CSU) expert in counter-terrorism has used the popular Google internet search engine to demonstrate that New Zealand and Australia are home to the cities where most 'make bombs' enquiries come from.

Annual stream flow into the Murray-Darling Basin is likely to fall by 10 to 25% by 2050, and by 16 to 48% by 2100 according to one of Australia’s leading experts on the effects of climate change on our river systems.

Forestry is now part of the new economy in a world coping with carbon pollution, says a leading CSU forestry researcher.

The final report of 'The Garnaut Climate Change Review', released on Tuesday 30 September, offers a constructive way forward, according to a senior CSU academic.

Frog populations are declining world-wide, and while a great deal of attention has been paid to factors like disease, the loss of natural habitat remains the single greatest threat to amphibian populations. Despite this, we know very little about how frogs respond to habitat changes, particularly altered water regimes or how to manage wetland flooding regimes to increase their chances of survival.

Wombats may well look slow and cumbersome but appearances can be deceiving. While we know they can move very quickly over short distances, it seems that they can also cover large distances, up to 4kms, at night.