lives of zoo animals reveal inner workings of ageing
Drawing on data from more than 100 mammal species, an international team of researchers examined the trade-off between…
UNSW scientists advance solar efficiency
UNSW researchers are working towards a new generation of solar technology that could make sunlight work smarter –…
Overlooked melting in East Antarctica could skew sea level rise projections
New research into how East Antarctica’s ice shelves melt reveals future global sea-level rise predictions could be significantly…
Scientists make incredible breakthrough to pull clean drinking water from the sea: ‘An amazing leap forward’
Scientists have developed a novel technology to further advance water desalination — the process of removing salt from…
Deforestation can cause eight-fold increase in flood event risk, says report
Absorbing the rainfall The research team, which also included Professor Lucy Marshall who was at UNSW but has…
they’re already here and making an impact
Sensing, communication and computation Today, quantum technologies are reshaping our world in amazing ways, with three major categories…
Is Life a Form of Computation?
Alan Turing and John von Neumann saw it early: the logic of life and the logic of code…
This metaphorical cat is both dead and alive – and it will help quantum engineers detect computing errors
Visual depiction of the atomic ‘Schrödinger cat’ state. The ‘dead’ state corresponds to the antimony nuclear spin pointing…