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Device makes electric vehicle charging a two-way street New tech means cars can power houses, as well as the other way round. A new device turns electric vehicles into chargers for houses and stranded cars. Researchers led by Seyedfoad Taghizadeh from Australia’s Macquarie University are looking to commercialise the technology, which may significantly increase the…

A new brain tumour model to provide more realistic test responses to chemo and radiotherapy is being developed by NSW scientists. “High-grade brain cancer is very aggressive and treatment outcomes have not improved much for several decades,” says Dr Annemarie Nadort of Macquarie University, who is leading the research. “One of the reasons for this…

Between your morning commute, coffee break, playing with the kids, or mowing the lawn—how do you know when you’ve had too much sun? A fingernail-sized sensor to accurately measure UV dosage absorbed by the skin is being developed by scientists at Macquarie University, which they’re hoping can be worn as a wearable warning device.

Taking a test for bowel cancer can be awkward and, as a result of people avoiding the test, most bowel cancer is detected too late for treatment to be effective. But a new blood test may mean that the days of colonoscopies and faecal based tests for bowel cancer detection are numbered. Whist working at…