News Archive • Page 17
Human waste offers boon for farmers
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Friday, June 13, 2008
Bio-solids is the euphemism the industry uses and Australian farmers are being urged to consider using them instead of expensive synthetic fertilisers.
All aboard the time giant
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Monday, June 2, 2008
Swinburne University of Technology astrophysicists have just booked themselves a ticket on the world's biggest 'time machine', capable of reaching back 12 billion years to the earliest phases of the universe when galaxies were first formedSmall-scale technology with large-scale benefits
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Sunday, June 1, 2008
The team is working to refine the early detection technology, a massive microscope, and turn it into a
portable unit, converting it from biological research laboratories to turning it into a powerful diagnostic tool compatible with day surgery.Mending broken hearts - naturally
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Sunday, June 1, 2008
Like an intricate pink flower, a three-leaved valve is gradually forming from human body cells.
This small, biological construction is part of Swinburne University of Technology\'s pioneering research into a new way to mend broken hearts
Disease arms-race looks to powerful new X-ray tools
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Sunday, June 1, 2008
If you slice a second into a million billion femtoseconds, then 20 femtoseconds would be proportionate to the duration of a single eye
blink within the 300,000 years since humans diverged from Neanderthals.
It is an unimaginably brief timespan.No waste spared for travel in the fast lane
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Sunday, June 1, 2008
Whenever he drives on a freeway, Dr Atputharajah Arulrajah eyes the roadside embankments and pictures a not-too-distant future when such earthworks are all created from recycled waste, including sewage.
Coventor & Mancef MEMS Design Scholarship
By Dr Pio Iovenitti
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Norizan Mohamad, PhD student, was recently awarded one of four scholarships of one year license of Coventor's CoventorWare Designer/Analyser package ...Biennial Computational Techniques and Applications Conference
By Joe Sampson
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Mathematics lecturers David Richards and Joe Sampson and Mathematics Ph.D. student Aspriha Chakraborty attended CTAC ’08 (the 14th Biennial Computational ...In Vivo Testing of Blood Vessel Made From Bio-Compatible Material
By Professor Yos Morsi
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Swinburne and Donghua University have been collaborating on the development of a special designed haemodynamically tested (at Swinburne) and Electrospun ...IOP Fellow Application
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Prof Min Gu has been elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Physics; the panel decision was unanimous. The Institute ...New Defence Material Technology Centre
By Lea Kivivali, Senior Media Officer, Corporate Communications Unit
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
The development of futuristic materials for use in ships, aircraft and combat vehicles is now a reality, with the establishment ...Global Deans Council
By Professor John Beynon
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Prof John Beynon had been invited to join the Executive of the newly formed Global Deans Executive Council (GEDC), a concept ...AMSI workshop on Mathematical General Relativity
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
The mathematics discipline is organising an Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI) workshop on the theme of mathematical general relativity for ...Taming the Spontaneous
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Nanocrystals made from semiconductor materials - quantum dots - are of interest for optoelectronic applications such as light emitters and ...