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Conferences | Media releases

Dreamliner composites. Hearing loss. AI valuations. Healing chronic wounds. Mercury-free teeth.
12 July, 202313 July, 2023

Innovation winners from Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane Six Excellence in Innovation awards were presented last night at the Collaborate Innovate 2023 conference in Adelaide, held by Collaborative Research Australia. The awards are sponsored by UNSW. “The winners have each shown how Australian research can be transformed through collaboration into impactful organisations and businesses, creating jobs…

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Conferences | Media releases

Sleep for bushfire survivors. Cane waste to rebuild soil health. The real cost of your carbon travel. Creating tri-sector careers.
12 July, 202313 July, 2023

Four early career researchers from Canberra, Newcastle, Sydney, Melbourne recognised by Cooperative Research Australia for their innovative research and their ability to present it clearly and simply. “These researchers illustrate the difference that deeply collaborative research can make for Australia,” says Jane O’Dwyer, the CEO of Cooperative Research Australia.

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Conferences | International Congress of Genetics | Media releases

Transforming Melbourne, transforming the world
11 July, 202311 July, 2023

International Genetics Congress returns Plus Some of the hundreds of stories to be discovered at the 23rd International Genetic Congress, 16 to 21 July at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. The media are welcome.

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Conferences | Media releases

Australia can turn research into innovation, jobs and companies
11 July, 202311 July, 2023

The idea that Australian can lead in research, but can’t capture the benefits will be challenged in Adelaide this week. Cooperative Research Australia’s 2023 conference at the Adelaide Convention Centre will reveal how Australian researchers are successfully turning research into innovations that are transforming society and creating jobs and wealth. Speakers include State and Federal…

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Macquarie University | Media releases

Solving rare disease mysteries and protecting privacy
11 July, 202311 July, 2023

Macquarie University researchers have demonstrated a new way of linking personal records and protecting privacy. The first application is in identifying cases of rare genetic disorders. There are many other potential applications across society. The research will be presented at the 18th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security in Melbourne on 12 July. A five-year-old…

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Macquarie University | Media releases

Five steps to a world of intelligent life
6 July, 202310 July, 2023

A path to cognition Five major changes in the computational capacity of brains have led to the world of intelligent life around us. That’s the conclusion of Professor Andrew Barron from Macquarie University with Dr Marta Halina from the University of Cambridge and Professor Colin Klein from the Australian National University (ANU), in a paper…

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Media releases

Don’t know what you got (‘til it’s measured)
28 June, 202323 January, 2024

Global knowledge inequality threatens ecosystems across the Global South Images available Abstract and authors An international research team has revealed a knowledge gap that threatens our capacity to understand and protect tropical forests and other ecosystems from climate change. In a paper published in the journal New Phytologist, researchers from the University of Buffalo, Western…

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Macquarie University | Media releases

Bees make decisions better and faster than we do
28 June, 20236 July, 2023

Research reveals how we could design robots to think like bees Bees available to film at Macquarie and Sheffield, video overlay and graphics available. Honey bees have to balance effort, risk and reward, making rapid and accurate assessments of which flowers are mostly likely to offer food for their hive. Research published in the journal…

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Astronomical Society of Australia (ASA) | Media releases

Dark matter in colliding galaxy clusters, travelling back to the cosmic dawn, enabling ‘impossible’ research, and more
28 June, 20233 July, 2023

National recognition for astronomers from Perth, Canberra, and Melbourne The Astronomical Society of Australia (ASA) will honour the 6 at its Annual Scientific Meeting at the Macquarie University Wallumattagal Campus in Sydney 3-7 July 2023.

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Media release | Media releases | World Mining Congress 2023

The art of closure
25 June, 202325 June, 2023

Mines turning into physics labs, parks, pumped hydro… Monday 26 June 2023 Many major mines around the world will close and thousands of new mines will open over the coming decades as the industry transforms. So, what can you do with holes in the ground and heaps of tailings? A surprising amount, according to Professor…

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