Science & Tech

Blockchain could be the key to nuclear material safeguards

31 Oct 2022

UNSW experts will present a new shared ledger system to delegates at the IAEA Symposium on International Safeguards in Austria.

An aerial drone view of a surfer and a dark shape of a shark nearby, both identified by AI

How shoring up drones with artificial intelligence helps surf lifesavers spot sharks at the beach

28 Oct 2022

Discerning whether that dark splodge in the water is a shark or just, say, seaweed isn’t always straightforward.

The government hopes private investors will help save nature. Here's how its scheme could fail

28 Oct 2022

The nature repair market is sold as a good news story: willing land managers benefiting nature with support from the private sector. But if offsets are part of it, the reality could be very different.

Winning story explores how our past is embedded in rocks

28 Oct 2022

Lauren Fuge wins the 2022 UNSW Press Bragg Prize for Science Writing.

A human hand half made of a futuristic-looking prosthetic

Engineers light the way to bionics of the future

27 Oct 2022

A multi-disciplinary team at UNSW has found a way to convert nerve impulses into light, opening the way for more scalable neural implants.

Veena Sahajwalla Clunies Research Award Winner

UNSW waste pioneer recognised with Clunies Ross Innovation Award

27 Oct 2022

UNSW Sydney's Veena Sahajwalla has received one of Australia’s most prestigious research awards for her globally recognised waste transformation technologies.

UNSW Sydney solar pioneer wins Europe's biggest technology innovation prize

26 Oct 2022

Scientia Professor Martin Green is the first Australian to win the prestigious Millennium Technology Prize for transforming the production of solar energy.

solar panels in bright and warm sunlight seen from above

Solar panels aren't perfect yet – we can make them even better and cheaper

25 Oct 2022

The world’s solar panels rely on technology pioneered in Australia. Now our researchers are working on ultra-low-cost, high efficiency solar cells.

dead fish float in water of the menindee lakes

Excessive water extraction, not climate change, most to blame for Darling River drying

25 Oct 2022

Climate change shouldn’t be used as a 'get out-of jail free' card to excuse bad decision-making and poor planning decisions.

Water extraction is key cause of the Darling River drying: study

24 Oct 2022

Researchers find the water flow decline on Australia’s iconic river is due to water management failures rather than climate change.

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