Science & Tech

National Science Week featuring Meganne Christian

UNSW Sydney's world-leading researchers will take on topics including the secret to happiness, the medicinal benefits of psychedelics and reversing the impact of climate change.

Person taking a clipping of a fig leaf

Machine learning can help extract important information from the huge numbers of plant specimens stored in herbaria, say UNSW Sydney scientists.

Photo of the Eastern Banjo Frog

Researchers use large-scale data from citizen scientists to analyse the calls of nearly 700 frogs and discover new insights about frog communication.  

enceladus

Phosphorus is the most elusive element crucial for life as we know it – and we now have the first evidence there’s some available in the oceans of Enceladus.

A cubesat in space

Did you know that for the price of a brand new large ute, you could instead send your very own small satellite to the International Space Station and out into orbit?

Sponge gardens on a tropical reef at the Great Barrier Reef

Microbes could hold the key to explaining how climate change affects sea sponges, warn scientists from UNSW Sydney. 

A sun on the horizon with electricity pylon and cables in the foreground

The likely El Niño is bad timing for the electricity sector, and means Australians may face supply disruptions and volatile prices.

corals

Research suggests warming temperatures will see nearly 80 per cent of coral in reefs diseased in the next 80 years.

a bee sits on the petals of a large flower

New research suggests insects have pollinated flowers since the pollen-bearing blooms first evolved more than 140 million years ago.

two men holding a solar panel

UNSW Sydney solar experts say we need bespoke technology designed to recycle important elements inside solar panels.

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