Celebrating research excellence at the Summer Gold awards
From a digital collection of Proust’s letters to the ecology of tussock grasslands, this year’s Summer Gold awards celebrated a range of excellent research from the 2021–2022 Summer Research Scholars.
Geoffrey Hinton discusses promise and perils of AI at Toronto Tech Week
Does artificial intelligence have subjective experience? Could AI outsmart and outmanoeuvre humans? What can Canada do to ensure it remains a leader in the global AI race that it helped kickstart?
Bournemouth University and University Hospitals Dorset work together for Climate Action
Bournemouth University (BU) and University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust (UHD) are working together on a range of sustainability issues.
Global plastic pollution treaty essential to tackle growing health risks to all life on...
World-leading researchers and charities are calling on countries attending global plastic pollution treaty negotiations (INC-5.2) to agree legally-binding commitments
UM students’ graduation work explores health issues in post-pandemic era
The Department of Communication, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Macau (UM), recently launched Eudemonia – UM Bridges 2022.
‘Rosetta stone’ of code allows scientists to run core quantum operation
To build a large-scale quantum computer that works, scientists and engineers need to overcome the spontaneous errors that quantum bits, or qubits, create as they operate.
Students wade in to use Biodiversity Box
#WorldBiodiversityDay Hillmorton High School is the latest school to benefit from the University of Canterbury’s Biodiversity Box with students wading into streams to take measurements.
Data privacy push sparks tech surge in US banks
A new study led by Dr Sarah Zhang from Alliance Manchester Business School has uncovered how small banks in the United States are reacting to growing concerns about data privacy.
Bumper research harvest anticipated from AW Howard recipients
A thriving crop of The University of Western Australia postgraduate students have the AW Howard Memorial Trust to thank for giving their agricultural research projects the financial support to grow.
Sydney researchers awarded $38.6M to lead ARC Discovery Projects
University of Sydney academics lead 51 research projects to strengthen Australia's economy, environment, health and society.
