UOW launches Djiringanji Community Learning Resource
The University of Wollongong (UOW) officially launched the Djiringanj Community Learning Resource and Artwork this week (Tuesday 25 July) at its Bega Valley Campus with...
Studying Chaos with One of the World’s Fastest Cameras
There are things in life that can be predicted reasonably well. The tides rise and fall. The moon waxes and wanes. A billiard ball bounces around a table according to orderly geometry.
Canterbury natural hazard research gets $1.35m funding boost
Three teams from the University of Canterbury have been awarded funding from Toka Tū Ake EQC to fill knowledge gaps and further improve engineering practices, land-use planning and building design to boost resilience.
“Futurizing” undergraduate teaching
Associate Professor Michael Short's innovative approach can be seen in the two nuclear science and engineering courses he’s transformed.
Could psychedelics be used to help manage athletes’ mental health?
Why do people who take DMT, a powerful psychedelic drug, feel a strong sense of familiarity about places, things or entities that are not a part of waking life?
Top UC entrepreneurs shoot for success at city event
Student entrepreneurs will pitch their innovative business and social enterprise ideas to industry experts in a lively competition in central Christchurch this week.
Significant funding boost to allow Nottingham researchers to unlock sustainable pharmaceutical manufacturing
Researchers from the University of Nottingham have joined forces with biotechnology company HydRegen for a project that will unlock sustainable biocatalytic hydrogenation – allowing the process to be scaled up and improved for industry use.
First COVID-19 lockdown cost UK hospitality and high street £45 billion in turnover, researchers...
However, UK supermarkets and online retailers made an additional £4 billion each thanks to the coronavirus lockdown that began in March last year, according to econometric models.
Viruses can ‘hijack’ cellular process to block immune response
Research led by McGill University and Queen’s University Belfast has found that viruses can ‘hijack’ an existing molecular process in the cell in order to block the body’s antiviral immune response to a viral infection.
New research reveals why and when the Sahara Desert was green
A pioneering study has shed new light on North African humid periods that have occurred over the past 800,000 years and explains why the Sahara Desert was periodically green.
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