UNSW Engineering

Pia Seeto

From instigating gender equity initiatives to giving talks and mentoring, Pia Seeto’s focus is a more equal future.

Washing fruit and veggies

Save your sanitisers – washing your fruit and veggies under running water is the recommended cleaning method, food microbiologist Julian Cox says.

waste water running out of a drain

The government plans to monitor sewage for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. And while this holds promise to tracking future local outbreaks, there are also some sticky ethical questions to consider.

NCI Gadi supercomputer

A UNSW researcher has been awarded the largest compute grant in Australian history.

Nicky Ison

Women in Engineering Ambassador Nicky Ison is helping Australia become the world’s leading exporter of renewable energy.

ARC Linkage Grants UNSW

UNSW researchers have been awarded $2,571,992 across seven projects in the latest round of the government’s Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Grants. 

Healthcare workers

Current advice for COVID-19 health workers is based on the assumption that droplets bearing the virus travel no further than 2 metres and do not remain in the air. The body of published evidence suggests otherwise.

Young boy on the laptop

Parents need to be more vigilant about their child’s internet usage as we spend more time online, cybersecurity expert Richard Buckland warns. 

Henry Yang and Andrew Dzurak

A proof-of-concept published today in Nature promises warmer, cheaper and more robust quantum computing. And it can be manufactured using conventional silicon chip foundries.

Team Australia for the AI Song Contest with their song Beautiful the World

Inspired by the recent bushfires, the Australian AI-generated song samples koala, kookaburra and Tasmanian Devil calls to give it an authentic Australian character.

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