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Light coloured roofs stay cool during summer

Are cool roofs the future for Australian cities?

15 Jun 2022

Outdoor air temperature and cooling energy consumption can be significantly reduced by solar reflective material, research finds.

a man with pirate eye mask, painting by daniel boyd

How the art of Daniel Boyd turns over the apple cart of accepted white Australian history

07 Jun 2022

Daniel Boyd’s solo exhibition Treasure Island, now at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, is a deeply political and personal interrogation of Australia’s colonial history.

Bulldozers shown next to a huge pile of coal at a mining site

Labor must come clean about the future for coal and gas

27 May 2022

Winning the election might be the easy part for Labor compared to weaning Australia off fossil fuel exports. But it must be done.

Anthony Albanese and Scott Morrison during a debate

Election humour 2022: can the major parties win votes with a funny marmot or a joke about Star Wars?

11 May 2022

Humour is now part of the modern election campaign. Facebook and TikTok have become joke battlegrounds.

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Love and violence in Glasgow: what Booker winner Douglas Stuart did next

12 Apr 2022

The author of Shuggie Bain returns to the public housing schemes of 1980s working-class Glasgow to explore the redemptive power of secure love and the dangers of dominating masculinity.

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Nature freaks

29 Mar 2022

If we are going to save the planet, UNSW Associate Professor of Environment and Society Tema Milstein says we need to start hugging trees. Westernised humans tend to believe they are separate from nature, which shapes thinking and actions toward the environment. But seeing the world with humans a

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Artificially intelligent visualisation artistically re-imagines wildfires

28 Mar 2022

A new AI-driven immersive visualisation system will help us address the new generation of extreme fires caused by global warming.

Aerial view of Calgoa River

Reclaiming the narrative through First Peoples' creative practice

25 Mar 2022

With culture at its heart, First Peoples’ creative collaboration can transform communities.

Installation view of the generous water giant

'Rich with wonder': the 2022 Sydney Biennale finds connection and relevance in troubled times

17 Mar 2022

The aesthetically captivating 23rd edition of the biennale shows how art can contribute to debates around environmental sustainability.

A social robot, left, dressed in a blouse and cardigan looks at a researcher, right.

"We get the robots we deserve": why robotics needs to move beyond gender

17 Mar 2022

Do robots need a gender? Professor Mari Velonaki of UNSW's Creative Robotics Lab says robots still have male and female stereotypes, but this may change as designers respond to new thinking on gender.

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