Natural light can be captured and transported to dark areas of a building without the need for windows or skylights using a new technology announced at Fresh Science in Melbourne today.
In a world breakthrough, researchers have created the ideal manufacturing material of the future – clean, green ‘super steel’ that is double the strength of normal steel and resistant to fracture.
A new invention by a University of Melbourne PhD student will stop buildings from cracking due to shaking by earthquakes, impacts and blasts. Dr John Stehle, now an engineer with Hyper Consulting, says he worked with colleagues at the University of Melbourne to design a super flexible system that can beat any level of…
Australian researchers have made a break through in developing a quantum computer – a computer so powerful that it calculates in seconds what it would take current supercomputers billions of years. University of New South Wales PhD student, Jeremy O’Brien is part of a research team at the Centre for Quantum Computer Technology who have…
Fresh Science is on hold for 2022. We will be back in 2023.
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Fresh Science is a national competition and training program helping early-career researchers find and share their stories of discovery.
We take young researchers with no media experience and help them become media spokespeople for their science, and reach stakeholders in government and industry.
Fresh Science gives finalists a taste of life in the limelight, with a day of media training, a day of training in stakeholder engagement, and a public event in their home state.
Alumni of the program include Professor Allan Duffy and Dr Niraj Lal.
Read some of the fresh science we discovered in 2021 here.
