Ingestible sensors, gas sensors, point-of-care biosensors: UNSW professor awarded prestigious science prize

Professor Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh from UNSW Chemical Engineering has been awarded the prestigious 2020 Robert Boyle Prize for Analytical Science by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). Image courtesy of UNSW.

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Portable factories to produce mining equipment on site

Researchers from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) are set to revolutionise the mining industry by developing portable factories for mineral separation equipment.

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Ocius Bluebottles to ‘protect Australia’s maritime borders’

Ocius Technology, a Sydney based company that develops autonomous unmanned surface vessels, was awarded a $5.5 million contract as part of eight new defence contracts announced this week by Minister for Defence Industry, the Hon Melissa Price MP.

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Wildfires: ‘no longer out of the blue events’

A study by The Australian National University (ANU) researchers has revealed the Victorian wildfires have become larger and more frequent over the past twenty years.

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Tailoring smart sensing solutions for Australian printers

Published in the Australian Printer magazine, "Tailoring smart sensing solutions for Australian printers" is about how local R&D institutions create solutions for Australian manufacturers to maximise automation capabilities and reduce overall costs and environmental impact.

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The Sensor - June 2020

The Sensor June 2020 edition is here.

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Emerging from the pandemic with sensing and diagnostics

The second virtual NSW Smart Sensing Network (NSSN) COVID-19 Q&A Forum took place on 21 May 2020. The Forum brought together world-renowned scientists and practitioners from across NSW to discuss the role of sensing and diagnostics in emerging from the pandemic.

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Stream the second NSSN COVID-19 Forum

The second NSW Smart Sensing Network (NSSN) COVID-19 Q&A Forum took place online on 21 May 2020 from 10:30 am to 12:00 pm. Watch the recording here.

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Early cancer detection research awarded $3.7m in NHMRC funding

A total of 237 leading researchers across Australia will receive five-year Investigator Grants from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC).

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Ahead of the curve: keeping microchips cool with refreshing phonons

Researchers are using sound waves, known as phonons, to store and transfer data on microchips to potentially enable the chips to operate without heat-producing electrons.