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How Dr Gordon Slater is pushing regenerative surgery forward
11+ hour, 3+ min ago (836+ words) From helping patients avoid amputation to exploring whether damaged cartilage can repair itself, orthopaedic surgeon Dr Gordon Slater has built his medical career around one question: how can he improve outcomes for his patients? After completing a medicine degree at…...
Payday Super is here. What does it mean for your retirement savings?
18+ hour, 34+ min ago (709+ words) The new Payday Super rules have arrived. Here's what they mean for your super, your employer and your retirement savings. Many Australians don't pay much attention to their superannuation until they change jobs, check their balance or start thinking about…...
Thomas Gao: Engineering a better world
13+ hour, 21+ min ago (989+ words) As Senior Manager at the Office of the NSW Chief Scientist & Engineer, Thomas applies engineering thinking to some of the most pressing challenges of our time. When Thomas first started studying towards a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) (Chemical Engineering) at…...
Innovative soft robotic heart offers new way to study disease and test life-saving devices
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (1415+ words) The soft robotic model of the human heart, developed at UNSW, that can mimic disease. UNSW researchers have developed a soft robotic model of the human heart that can mimic disease and provide a realistic environment for testing the next…...
Ethics over efficiency
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (936+ words) While the corporate world obsesses over AI's efficiency gains, Associate Professor Lynn Gribble is teaching future leaders to focus on something entirely different " how to use the technology to make the world better. Sometimes a seemingly small decision can change…...
Making it! - Elena Aruldoss
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (613+ words) UNSW School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering graduate Elena Aruldoss shares how curiosity, collaboration and saying yes to new opportunities shaped her journey from student projects to engineering innovation at R'DE. Have you ever wondered what life in Mechanical and…...
Congrats to our new Senior Lecturers!
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (324+ words) UNSW Sydney Congrats to our new Senior Lecturers! The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering is delighted to announce the promotion of leading academic staff Dr Khalegh Barati and Dr Daniel O'Shea to Senior Lecturers at UNSW. "This is a…...
Ten Australians are taking the government to the UN over fossil fuel exports. What is their case?
1+ week, 1+ day ago (920+ words) This historic case could establish a legal link between human rights and fossil fuel exports. Ten Australians " including a firefighter, First Nations leaders and young people " are bringing their concerns about the nation's coal and gas exports to the United…...
Despite its best efforts, Iran won't be able to toll the Strait of Hormuz. Here's why
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (902+ words) New strikes from the US and Iran continue to put the future of the crucial shipping channel in doubt, but a permanent toll is neither legal nor workable. Tensions have again escalated in the Middle East, with the United States…...
Fairy Bower wave overtopping monitoring | Water Research Laboratory
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (161+ words) Located on Guringai land south of Manly Beach, Fairy Bower seawall fronts 750 m of high traffic pedestrian promenade (Marine Parade), and experiences several wave overtopping events each year that are hazardous to pedestrians and potentially damaging to infrastructure. In 2019 WRL…...