New tractor beam has potential to tame lightning
Lightning never strikes twice, so the saying goes, but new technology may allow us to control where it hits the ground, reducing the risk of catastrophic bushfires.
Researcher engineers a better way to produce carbon fibre from bitumen
A University of Alberta engineering researcher has found a way to produce carbon fibre from bitumen at half the cost of current commercial product and with 70 per cent lower carbon emissions.
State-of-the-art Innovation Complex wins excellence award
The building won an ‘Excellence’ in the Greenstone Colliers Project Leaders Education Property Award. The annual Property Institute Awards celebrate and showcase superior examples of iconic property development...
Building smarter to help cut NZ’s carbon emissions
A new study will explore how public buildings, including schools, could be designed to use sustainable cooling and heating technology and help New Zealand achieve its net-zero 2050 goal.
The social cost of COVID-19 will be felt for a decade, says new report
Newcastle University experts have investigated how Covid-19 has affected the wellbeing of children and young people.
New photoreactor technology could pave the way to a carbon-neutral future, researchers say
An international team that includes researchers from the University of Toronto has designed and implemented a new model for photoreactors, a solar-powered technology for converting water...
Nanoparticles help scientists zoom in on super small objects
Physicists at The Australian National University (ANU) and the University of Adelaide are using nanoparticles to develop new sources of light that will allow us to peel back the curtain into the world of extremely small objects...
Peking University alumnus Xu Chenyang awarded the 2021 Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Algebra
The 2021 Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Algebra is awarded to Xu Chenyang, an alumnus of the School of Mathematical Sciences at Peking University.
Water under Antarctica sounds warning of faster rising sea levels
Researchers from The University of Western Australia have found that groundwater deep beneath Antarctica could destabilise the continent’s ice sheet causing sea levels to rise faster.
University of Missouri researcher adds to timeline of human evolution by studying an island...
Nearly two decades ago, a small-bodied "human-like" fossil, Homo floresiensis, was discovered on an island in Indonesia.
