Australian researchers have reported promising results with a new drug that shrinks brain tumours in melanoma patients.

A major study from the University of Sydney has shed light on the secret world of excessive porn viewing and the devastating effect it has on users and their families.

Australia's sea snakes may be more in danger of extinction than previously thought, marine scientists from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies say.

Direct attacks by introduced dingoes may have led to the extinction on the Australian mainland of the iconic marsupial predator, the thylacine, a new study involving University of Sydney researchers suggests.

A new University of Sydney study has revealed the full extent of Australia's love-hate relationship with credit cards and those who use them.

A senior delegation from the University has completed a visit to Indonesia, where Vice-Chancellor Michael Spence announced plans to boost Southeast Asian studies at Sydney.

Many people talk of problem gambling as an 'addiction' but work coming out of the University of Sydney's Gambling Treatment Clinic suggests that this may not be the case.

Platypuses on the Australian mainland and in Tasmania are fighting fit but those on small islands are at high risk of being wiped out from disease, according to a University of Sydney study.

An indication of whether a mother will develop pre-eclampsia, the most common and severe pregnancy-related disease, has been identified by a University of Sydney study.

International travellers, shift workers and even people suffering from obesity-related conditions stand to benefit from a key discovery about the functioning of the body's internal clock.

There's no reprieve in sight for Australian letterboxes bombarded with junk mail, with new University of Sydney research showing that junk mail is enormously effective in boosting in-store sales.

A new class of anti-cancer drugs which control the growth and spread of cancers and do so with minimal side effects is being developed by researchers at the University of Sydney.

The vast but little known north-western Chinese region of Xinjiang has presented a University of Sydney archaeologist with exciting new evidence of early between China and the West.

The experience of 'mental silence' is linked with better health outcomes and greater wellbeing according to a University of Sydney study.