Feb 3, 2025

Imagine you could create any living structure with just a click. What would you create?Thanks to advancements in technology, this isn’t just imagination or science fiction – it’s the reality of bioprinting.

Jan 29, 2025

The COVID-19 pandemic made many terms commonplace: mRNA vaccines, antibodies, antigens (in rapid antigen tests (RATs)), and antivirals would now be familiar to most. Each of these was produced en masse to ensure that everyone had access to a RAT, a vaccine dose, or intensive therapies if their infection was severe. But how exactly are they made?

Nov 12, 2024

As the financial, regulatory, and other incentives to recycle grow, it is obvious that the easiest materials will be dealt with first. That means that the portion not recovered will be harder to tackle. So how should we deal with it?

Oct 15, 2024

The Nature Repair Act 2023 will soon result in the issuance of biodiversity certificates as personal property. How can Victoria support the development of a market for biodiversity certificates that is based on integrity and trust and, in doing so, deliver nature positive outcomes?

Oct 4, 2024

Smart Rust may provide us with an affordable and efficient way of removing a harmful pollutant from our water and saving the environment.

Oct 1, 2024

You may have heard of iconic mutualistic relationships between coral and algae, clownfish and sea anemones, and cleaner fish and sharks. However, you probably haven’t heard about the relationship between tiny frogs and tarantulas.

Oct 1, 2024

The Varroa destructor – yes, that’s its scientific name – is a tiny mite that has decimated honeybee colonies around the world. And an outbreak of this destructive parasite has been confirmed for the first time in Victoria near Mildura

Mar 5, 2024

De-extinction is not simply about putting a carbon-copy of an 1800’s thylacine back into the Tasmanian ecosystem. The thylacine co-evolved within that ecosystem over many thousands of years, and its role remains intact. Returning the native apex predator to that environment has the potential to stabilise it, and even save other endangered marsupials.

Dec 6, 2022

Whether “intelligence” can be created within hardware is a fascinating question, and one that remains unanswered despite significant efforts. In contrast, biological intelligence from a neural source offers a “ground truth” of opportunity. As such, the question becomes not ‘if’ general intelligence can arise from something artificial, but ‘how’.