Unlike amateurs, professional sax players can play notes in the very high altissimo sound register by tuning their vocal tract to assist the instrument, according to UNSW research published in the journal Science.
UNSW's School of Surveying and Spatial Information Systems has signed a five-year deal to conduct training for China's key surveying and mapping authority - a sign of the growing reputation of UNSW's spatial information team.
Pound for pound, Australia's extinct marsupial lion would have made mincemeat of today's African lion had the two big hyper-carnivores ever squared off in a fight to the death, according to an Australian scientist.
A team of first year Civil and Environmental Engineering students from UNSW is about to gain first-hand experience helping developing communities in India.
