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Celebrating and revealing the beauty of the science that we use daily to connect with the world, light our homes, fight disease, and scan our groceries. The United Nations has declared 2025 to be the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. Australia’s physicists are inviting scientific, cultural and industry organisations across the country to … Continued
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Researchers at Monash University have developed a group of low-cost solid materials that show great promise for use in systems to capture excess carbon dioxide (CO2) directly from the atmosphere. Known as “meso-macroporous melamine formaldehyde (MF)”, the new materials can be made relatively easily from the common and low-cost chemicals melamine and formaldehyde and have … Continued
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Engineers Australia has announced the speaker and panel lineup for the 2024 Climate Smart Engineering Conference (CSE24) to be held in Brisbane for the first time at the W Hotel on Thursday 22 August. This year, the profession’s best and brightest thought leaders and stakeholders will navigate one of the most critical challenges in … Continued
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Around 70 per cent of the world’s population lives in a structure built with concrete – the composite is second only to water for use in construction, and its production is responsible for more than 8 per cent of the world’s total carbon emissions. Concrete is vital for our working world, but experts on the material believe it’s … Continued
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Nominations for the Engineers Australia Excellence Awards Project of the Year have been extended until Tuesday 2 July. The awards recognise the achievements of the engineering professionals and cutting-edge engineering projects driving Australia forward. Engineers Australia is encouraging nominations from teams whose project exemplifies innovation, community impact and sustainability, contributing to the advancement of society … Continued
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The Faculty of Engineering at Monash University has appointed Professor Mahmoud Mostafavi as the new Head of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Professor Mostafavi will join Monash from the School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering at Bristol University in the UK, where he holds a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in … Continued
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BRISBANE (May 31, 2024) — AECOM, the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, today announced that Unitywater has appointed AECOM, in a joint venture with Aurecon, as Professional Services Partner. Unitywater provides water supply and sewage treatment services to more than 800,000 people daily across the Moreton Bay, Sunshine Coast and Noosa regions of South East Queensland, Australia. … Continued
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A joint initiative between Monash University and IIT Hyderabad will bring leading researchers together to build a sustainable global supply chain of critical minerals. The Australia-India Critical Minerals Research Hub (AICMRH) has been approved by India’s Ministry of Education (MoE) to provide advice on critical minerals extraction and processing, criticality assessments, economic geology, sustainable mining … Continued
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Freshly brewed coffee concrete may be coming to a street near you after RMIT University teamed up with Macedon Ranges Shire Council to conduct a world-first coffee concrete footpath trial. Several other upcoming infrastructure projects around Victoria, Australia, will also turn spent coffee grounds into biochar and transform this waste into a valuable resource for … Continued
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Imagine throwing a ball. You’d expect science to be able to work out its exact speed and location at any given moment, right? Well, the theory of quantum mechanics says you can’t actually know both with infinite precision at the same time. It turns out that as you more precisely measure where the ball is, … Continued
