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Making sense of national security

Dec 8, 2022

You've signed up today for a lecture ambitiously titled 'making sense of national security'. The National Security College: engaging minds for a secure AustraliaI've led an institution called the National...

A new chapter in the history of evolution

Dec 8, 2022

Two-million-year-old DNA has been identified for the first time opening a new chapter in the history of evolution. Credit: Professor Svend Funder Main locality at the Kap København geological formation....

Low-cost battery built with four times the capacity of lithium

Dec 7, 2022

The battery has a longer life span compared to previous sodium-sulphur batteries. Dr Zhao’s Na-S battery has been specifically designed to provide a high-performing solution for large renewable energy storage...

A targeted approach to reducing the health impacts of crop residue burning in India

Dec 7, 2022

To clear the way for planting wheat in November, a farmer in Punjab, India, sets aflame the leftover straw, or stubble, of a harvested rice paddy crop in October. The...

The smallest robotic arm you can imagine is controlled by artificial intelligence

Dec 7, 2022

Researchers used a kind of artificial intelligence called deep reinforcement learning to steer the atoms, each a fraction of a nanometer in size, into the lattice shape. The main application...

Professor Marko Hinkkanen named IEEE Fellow

Dec 7, 2022

Professor Marko Hinkkanen from Aalto University Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation has been named an IEEE Fellow active from January 2023. ‘This IEEE Fellow elevation shows that our research...

What AI-generated COVID news tells us that journalists don’t

Dec 7, 2022

Researchers from McGill University got a computer program to generate news coverage of COVID-19 using headlines from CBC articles as prompts. The CBC coverage was also more positive than expected...

Financy and UniSA partnership delivers tech platform to take diversity, equity and inclusion measurement to the next level

Dec 6, 2022

It is the next step in Financy’s evolution as a fintech, building on the company’s high-profile delivery of women’s financial content and the quarterly gender equality scorecard and report, the...

Communications system achieves fastest laser link from space yet

Dec 6, 2022

And these record-setting speeds were all made possible by a communications payload roughly the size of a tissue box. For satellites, however, a high-speed internet based on laser communications does...

New UniSA study to boost support for early career teachers

Dec 6, 2022

06 December 2022Attracting and retaining teachers remains a major issue for Australia’s education sector, particularly as a high percentage of early career teachers leave the profession in their first few...