Flight crew fight fatigue to improve airline safety
As times change, old rules around fatigue become less and less relevant. Recent studies have shown that flight crew members getting less than five hours sleep before take off are likely...
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Wearable skin patches detect UV radiation and toxic gasses
Wearable sensor patches that detect UV radiation and toxic gases such as hydrogen and nitrogen dioxide have been created...
University experts genetically engineer algae to combat cancer
New interdisciplinary research from the University of South Australia has revealed the frontline role tiny algae could play in...
Experts design architecture for a quantum computer in silicon
Researchers at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and the University of Melbourne have designed a 3D silicon chip...
Major breakthrough for quantum communication technologies
A team of UTS researchers has made a major breakthrough that could pave the way for the next generation...
University of Notre Dame produces award-winning research to improve GP cancer screening
Professor Moyez Jiwa, Associate Dean of The University of Notre Dame Australia’s Melbourne Clinical School, has received one of...
Experts at Griffith University discover the real effects of Sydney’s Red Dawn
Griffith University researchers have shown for the first time that Sydney’s ‘Red Dawn’ dust storm in September 2009 has...
UQ a step closer to printable prosthetic limbs
The clever researchers at the University of Queensland (UQ) Robotics Club have created a functioning prosthetic forearm, intended to...
Painless vaccinations a possibility with revolutionary RMIT nebuliser
Life-saving cancer drugs and vaccines could one day be delivered painlessly, thanks to a nebuliser developed by RMIT University...
La Trobe Uni makes game changing cancer discovery
It has long been thought that weight loss in cancer patients was due to cancer spreading throughout the body,...