Thwack! Insects feel chronic pain after injury Associate Professor Greg Neely and his team of pain researchers in the Charles Perkins Centre have found compelling evidence that insects feel... Read more
Sydney-Singapore team manipulates soliton photonic waves on a silicon chip A tsunami holds its wave shape over very long distances across the ocean, retaining its power and ‘informatio... Read more
Viruses, spread through mosquito bites, cause human illnesses such as dengue fever, Zika and yellow fever. A new control technique harnesses a naturally occurring bacterium called Wolbachia... Read more
A team of pain researchers in the Charles Perkins Centre studied the most venomous creature on earth to learn how venom works and what causes pain. Researchers at the University of Sydney h... Read more
A world-record result in reducing errors in semiconductor electron ‘spin qubits’, a type of building block for quantum computers, has been achieved using the theoretical work of quantum phys... Read more
Researchers at Swinburne, the University of Sydney and Australian National University have collaborated to develop a solar absorbing, ultrathin film with unique properties that has great pot... Read more
At the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, researchers have realized the swap of electron spins between distant quantum dots. The discovery brings us a step closer to future appl... Read more
Commercial octopus farming, currently in developmental stages on multiple continents, would have a negative ripple effect on sustainability and animal welfare. Commercial octopus farming, cu... Read more
Pioneering new technology is set to accelerate the global quest for crop improvement in a development which echoes the Green Revolution of the post war period. The speed-breeding platform de... Read more
Wheat provides about a fifth of humanity’s food The re-emergence of a rust disease that can kill wheat is threatening food security. A breakthrough has been announced in the prestigious jour... Read more
Sydney team develops microcircuit based on Nobel Prize research Invention of the microwave circulator is part of a revolution in device engineering needed to build a large-scale quantum comp... Read more
Emergency treatments could be transformed, saving lives A highly elastic and adhesive surgical glue that quickly seals wounds without the need for common staples or sutures could transform h... Read more
University of Sydney researchers are turning optical data into readable soundwaves Researchers at the University of Sydney have dramatically slowed digital information carried as light waves... Read more
Extent of spin in biomedical scientific papers revealed More than a quarter of biomedical scientific papers may utilise practices that distort the interpretation of results or mislead reader... Read more