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Ben Newell

UNSW’s final Grand Challenge: Thriving in the Anthropocene

22 Jul 2020

UNSW Sydney’s last Grand Challenge will focus on how humans can thrive in our contemporary, globalised world.

UNSW National Science week 2020

UNSW hosts National Science Week events

21 Jul 2020

UNSW Sydney will celebrate the wonderful world of science with a range of digital events for the 2020 National Science Week.  

The Molecular Photonics Laboratories at UNSW Sydney

Oxygen breathes new life into solar cell research

21 Jul 2020

A world-first in light conversion has potential future implications for solar photovoltaics, biomedical imaging, drug delivery and photocatalysis.

Spin-orbit coupling of an electron in a lattice structure

Scientists strengthen quantum building blocks in milestone critical for scale-up

21 Jul 2020

A team led by UNSW scientists have significantly increased the coherence time of a spin-orbit qubit in silicon, allowing them to preserve quantum information for longer. These results open up a new pathway to scale silicon quantum computers.

Artificial reefs 12 months after installation

Fish reef domes a boon for the environment and recreational fishing

16 Jul 2020

Man-made reefs can be used in conjunction with the restoration or protection of natural habitat to increase fish abundance in estuaries, UNSW researchers have found.

Cyber attack graphic

We could lose $30 billion in weeks from cyberwar. But the real loss is the erosion of public trust

16 Jul 2020

Beyond the obvious risk of financial loss, cyberattacks can weaken our trust in digital infrastructure – and by extension, our trust in public institutions, too.

Satellite image

Grants awarded to collaborative UNSW research projects

15 Jul 2020

UNSW researchers have been awarded CRC-P grants to develop a new space traffic management system and to make cell and gene therapy more affordable.

Wind turbines

Renewable energy transition makes dollars and sense

15 Jul 2020

New UNSW research has disproved the claim that the transition to renewable electricity systems will harm the global economy.

Hydrogen technologies

UNSW receives $4.9m funding for new ARC Training Centre for The Global Hydrogen Economy

14 Jul 2020

The new research centre will aid development of new cost-effective hydrogen technologies – placing Australia firmly at the forefront of the hydrogen economy.

Explore NSW's new wetland national park

08 Jul 2020

At the end of June, the NSW government declared a massive new national park in north-western NSW - a welcome and timely development, according to UNSW ecologist Professor Richard Kingsford, who did the first comprehensive aerial surveys of the area’s waterbirds in the 1990s.

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