Nov
26
2025
Big inter-disciplinary projects are the new face of successful university research – collaborations by researchers from a range of fields working together to find solutions or to better understand the fundamental problems. These collaborations might include leading university researchers from all the STEM disciplines working with lawyers or historians or social science academics.
Nov
17
2025
Skincare brand Boring Without You has steered clear of the advertising and marketing traditions long dominant in the cosmetic industry, instead embracing the cheeky and eye-catching. One brand product, a “hydrating milk serum”, is marketed with the line ‘Make Me Wet’. Founder and CEO Davey Rooney has sported pale blue nail-polish in promotional images. “Beauty …read more
Nov
17
2025
Still hand-made after 13 years of manufacture, Loco Love chocolates are free of all gluten, dairy or refined sugars. The range includes Maple, Macadamia Caramel, Classic Chewy Caramel and newcomer Pistachio Mylk Praline. The Byron Bay-based company now produces as many as 120,000 individual chocolate bars each week and continues to have trouble meeting ever-increasing …read more
Nov
4
2025
In this new age of AI-enabled warfare, Australia’s Defence Department needs to rethink the way it procures military equipment, says Professor Toby Walsh, Scientia Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of NSW’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering. “The ADF typically puts out a tender, a specification, and throws a lot of money at …read more