How sea slugs fall in love
Posted in: 2007, QLDScott Cummins and his colleagues at The University of Queensland have uncovered a potent mix of chemicals which acts like a cross between Chanel No 5 and Viagra-but only if you are a sea slug.
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Mercury Rising! Offices to stay cool and save dollars
Posted in: 2006, NSWA Sydney research team has developed a sun and wind driven ventilation system to cool commercial buildings on the hottest summer days. They hope that the new system will reduce the power requirements of a commercial ventilation system by 15 to 20 per cent.
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Re-inventing nature for cheaper solar power
Posted in: 2006, NSWA research team in Sydney has created molecules that mimic those in plants which harvest light and power life on Earth.
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Sound solution for soil pollution
Posted in: 2006, NSWThe cleaning power of sound waves on the back of a truck. A young researcher in Sydney is cleaning up contaminated soil by blasting it with ultrasound. Andrea Sosa Pintos from CSIRO Industrial Physics has shown that toxic and carcinogenic pollutants, such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), can be decomposed quickly,…
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