Extracts From Swinburne Magazine - Issue #6
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
The following are extracts from the June 2009 issue of Swinburne Magazine.
Diabetes hope on the wings of silver cicadas
By Penny Fannin
The wings of a familiar noisy insect, the cicada, were the starting point for a device that will be able to continuously monitor blood glucose levels.
Alloy research cuts through the fighter cost barrier
story by Rebecca Thyer
Defence is an expensive business. Strike aircraft weapons systems, for example, don't come cheap. But their necessity, and these strained economic times, means more research is being put into reducing their cost of production.
All power to the sun and the light team
By Robin Taylor
Affordable solar power may soon be just a flick of the switch away
A modern-day oracle on the ocean waves
Story by Julian Cribb
Like gypsies read tea leaves to foresee the future, researchers can read something of our future in the winds and waves.