Heriot-Watt spinout brings home sustainable business award
Heriot-Watt spinout company Kenoteq, inventor of a brick made from more than 90% construction waste material, received the Circular Scotland Award at the VIBES Awards last week.
Cutting-edge glass tech project gains Marsden funding
University of Canterbury research developing a new type of high-strength glass that could revolutionise LED lighting and solar energy has won a $941,000 funding boost.
Adventures, business and lessons from lockdown
Some people are born relentlessly positive. At first, Jamie Fitzgerald seems like one of those people, but after a while you get the sense there’s more to his enthusiasm than just blind positivity, but a bit of strategy too.
Humans have been altering the environment with fire for at least 85,000 years: new...
Amultinational study led by Yale and including a University of Calgary research team provides the earliest evidence to date of ancient humans significantly altering entire ecosystems with fire.
Adolescent drug trial reanalysed
A highly-cited trial from 2007 used by international health agencies to support the use of medication of adolescents with depression, has been critically reviewed by a team from the University of Adelaide.
Call to end harmful marketing after study reveals children’s exposure
An end to outdoor marketing of gambling, alcohol and junk food is urgently needed to protect children from harm, according to new University of Otago-led research.
UOW researcher developing artificial muscle in miniature devices recognised on the global stage
The development of the next generation of non-invasive surgery or robotic surgical systems, like miniature tweezers, prosthetic hands or dexterous robotic devices, is bringing researchers a step closer...
Microbes are becoming more resistant to drugs
Due to the fact that COVID-19 therapy is increasingly based on pharmacological treatment, we are running the risk of speeding up the evolution of drug resistance in microbes.
Engineering students’ agri-tech startup ProTag raises $1 million
Massey University Engineering PhD students and entrepreneurs, Tyrel Glass and Baden Parr, are creating game-changing technology for the agricultural industry.
UQ partners with Aurizon to keep carbon emission reduction targets on track
The University of Queensland has teamed up with Australia’s largest rail freight operator, Aurizon, on a research project to help reduce the carbon emissions of the company’s locomotive fleet.
