Science & Tech

Two stars collide with a planet orbiting in the debris disk

By all accounts, this planet shouldn’t exist, new international research co-authored by UNSW Sydney shows.

Dr Marlene Kanga

Dr Marlene Kanga AO, Dr Fatemeh Salehi and Dr Olivia Mirza were all recognised at the prestigious UNSW Women in Engineering Awards.

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.

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