In the race towards Net Zero 2050, every discovery helps. But this breakthrough could revolutionise energy production and waste consumption. This is how it occurred.
Professor Yasmina Sultanbawa is striving to answer the question: how can we produce, process, preserve and protect our food in the most natural way possible?
A partnership between the biomaterials research team and the US Department of Defense has harnessed two proteins from deadly snake venom that can help stop bleeding at a faster rate than ever before.
Another La Niña is being predicted for later this year – a situation that researchers are calling “unusual”. This is what it would mean for our already rain-soaked nation.
QAAFI researchers have used RNA technology – similar to that in COVID vaccines – to create a highly targeted treatment for myrtle rust: a spray that can restore even severely infected trees to health in around six weeks.
Bioplastics can help address the “wicked problem” of plastic pollution, but companies and research institutions need to take a holistic approach, says Associate Professor Steven Pratt.
The Australian government has launched a campaign asking people to “switch off light pollution” to protect wildlife. So, what does the science say? Should we rethink Christmas lights?
A process similar to that used to store human embryos is being used by scientists to save native Australian plants under threat from the invasive fungus, myrtle rust.
