Internationally recognised expert on Australian muttonbirds, Associate Professor Nick Klomp, has been following the recent mass deaths of the birds around the Australian coast with considerable interest.

The first year it was a giant map of Australia, the next a huge wallaby. This year it will be the biggest effort yet - a 1.2 kilometre long goanna.

Weather conditions in Sunday's Olympic men's marathon will have as much to do with who crosses the finish line first, as the level and intensity of the competitors' training programs, according results of a recent study.

Contrary to views screened in some TV crime shows, developing successful criminal profiles depend on the rigour of the scientific method rather than psychic powers, according to the winner of the 2000 Eureka Prize for Critical Thinking.

An online learning program set to revolutionise library skills training around Australia and overseas will be launched at Charles Sturt University today, Thursday 17 August.

Charles Sturt University will increase employment opportunities for graduates in science, mathematics and information technology with three new double degree courses to be offered next year.

The world's first clear sequence of images taken of a "near miss" space rock that zoomed past Earth this week were taken by Australia's first remotely controlled telescope at Charles Sturt University.

The Australian regional city of Wagga Wagga was the destination this week for more than 200 Malaysian university students who have just finished their studies with Charles Sturt University.

Watching paint dry will assume new artistic dimensions when performance art staged in Wagga Wagga is beamed around the world for the first time live via the Internet tonight.