• Enjoy a COVID-free Christmas

    Lachlan Gilbert     |      December 4, 2020

    Christmas may not be cancelled, but it will certainly be different to any before, say leading COVID-19 experts. Despite the virtual eradication of the virus in this country, precautions over the holiday season will help prevent a resurgence.

  • How green hydrogen can become cheap enough to compete with fossil fuels

    Lachlan Gilbert     |      October 12, 2020

    The green hydrogen revolution is coming, and Australia is perfectly placed to take advantage of it, according to a new analysis of production costs.

  • Face to face with reality

    Lachlan Gilbert     |      August 14, 2020

    Face pareidolia – the phenomenon of seeing faces in everyday objects – uses the same brain processes that we use to recognise and interpret other ‘real’ human faces.

  • There’s no returning to the pre-COVID-19 world

    Lachlan Gilbert     |      June 14, 2020

    COVID-19 has been described as a once-in-a-century pandemic and its effects will cause a permanent shift in the way the world operates at every social, political and economic level.

  • Getting the cat back into the bag

    Lachlan Gilbert     |      May 29, 2020

    The Felixer, an autonomous device that can target and cull feral cats in the wild, could be key in rebuilding Australia’s decimated native animal populations.

  • Q&A – How the world is coping with COVID-19

    Lachlan Gilbert     |      April 10, 2020

    UNSW Sydney’s Professor Mary-Louise McLaws, an adviser to the World Health Organisation, says the world will never be the same again following the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Aussie satellite tech set to cover the seas

    Lachlan Gilbert     |      September 25, 2019

    UNSW Sydney engineers are developing new satellite technology that can be used to determine the state of the planet’s seas as well as a number of other useful applications.