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
Oct
29
2025
Lawrence Kusz was inspired to investigate ways to expose malice on social media when his niece, who has Down Syndrome, was savagely attacked by cyber-bullies. “It was 2021, and I was lecturing at the University of Queensland at the time, and I saw first-hand how limited the existing tools were,” he says. “I wanted to …read more
Oct
27
2025
Boarding is an “all in” experience at the Anglican Church Grammar School, says headmaster, Dr Alan Campbell. Better known as Churchie, the day and boarding school for boys in Brisbane doesn’t offer weekly boarding or flexible arrangements of that type, Campbell adds, because the school’s policy is to remain with the “traditional model of a …read more
Oct
22
2025
The huge job of decommissioning and plugging seven subsea oil wells 50 kilometres off the coast of Victoria entailed months of offshore work and years of careful planning. The big seas and strong winds of the Basker, Manta and Gummy (BMG) fields, with wells located at ocean depths of between 200 and 270 metres, made …read more
Oct
16
2025
As Australia grapples with increasing geo-political uncertainty and rising transnational crime, the Australian Signals Directorate is “probably one of the busiest arms of government”, says Director-General Abigail Bradshaw. Sifting through a never-ceasing storm of foreign electronic communications to gather intelligence, ASD computer experts monitor electronic communications important to Australia and its allies and track down …read more
Sep
25
2025
Bond University’s business school has a substantial numbers advantage. The school employs more lecturers and adjunct lecturers per student than any other university business school in Australia. The ratio works out to about 11 or 12 students for each faculty member, says the school’s executive dean, Professor Robin Gauld. Roughly 50 full-time-equivalent faculty teach about …read more
Sep
24
2025
Australia is on the cusp of the next big renewable energy leap: using the electric car to double as a home battery, according to experts in the field. Australia has already embraced solar energy with immense enthusiasm – one in three Australian houses now has solar panels – and with the recent government subsidy there …read more