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Redesigns can cause serious harm to businesses. New research from Adelaide University explores what brands should consider when modernising their packaging. “The study shows that successful redesign depends on increasing consumers’ perceived modernity without undermining recognisable brand cues,” explains Dr William Caruso from Adelaide University’s Ehrenberg-Bass Institute.

Adelaide University researchers are preparing to send living cancer cells into space aboard a suborbital rocket, in a pioneering experiment that could reveal new insights into how cancer develops and survives under extreme conditions. The project lead researcher Dr Nirmal Robinson from the Centre for Cancer Biology and SAHMRI's Blood Cancer Program will study how cancer cells behave in microgravity...

Exposure to extreme heat conditions is resulting in more babies being born with low birth weight, according to a new study involving Adelaide University researchers. The collaborative study, published in BMC Medicine, used health data from more than 85,000 mothers and babies in Pakistan to assess the impact of extreme heat on the size of infants.

Adelaide University is leading the international Wheat Spatial Omics Consortium (WSOC) of more than 30 institutions in nine countries, which will explore how collaborative research in spatial omics technologies could improve wheat performance for growers. Spatial omics is a suite of molecular technologies that measure and map the distribution of genes, proteins, and metabolites while preserving the...

Adelaide University Professor Graham Heinson and Honorary Professor Zaiping Guo have been recognised for their achievements at the Australian Academy of Science Honorific Awards 2026. Professor Heinson from the School of Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences, received the Haddon Forrester King Medal for his lifelong achievement and outstanding contribution to science.