The University of Sydney will set up a number of outreach clinics to help improve Indigenous health in remote western New South Wales communities, thanks to a mystery $10 million donation.

"You know the classic joke about the extrovert mathematician? He's the one that looks at your shoelaces when he's talking to you," says Dr Bill Palmer, who is well aware of the pressures that the young maths whiz can face.

Are too many people now diagnosed as having depression? Two experts give their views in this week's British Medical Journal (BMJ).

The University of Sydney has again ranked highly in the latest edition of The Good Universities Guide.

A new drug for people who keep waking at night or wake up early and can't go back to sleep is being investigated by medical researchers.

Smoking amongst Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in Australia is alarming; with current rates around 50 per cent compared with 16 per cent in the general population.

New research has shown that drivers carrying two or more passengers are twice as likely to crash as unaccompanied drivers.

An important international study has identified 'white matter' abnormalities in the brain as an underlying cause of the symptoms of schizophrenia.

The chances are your working environment today is a far more complex place than it was 20 years ago.

The University has set up a $5 million fund to help research ideas generated by academic staff reach their full commercial potential.

Global warning on global warming.

Tune in to Radio National this weekend to hear a Sydney University historian's documentary about an extraordinary 1948 joint US-Australian excursion to the Oenpelli region of northern Australia.