Do you love or loathe your creepy-crawly house guests? Are you an insecticide at the ready kind of person? Or do you take a more live and let live approach? Researchers from Macquarie University and …
Bugs’ burps for efficient hydrogen production
Bacteria that turn sugar into hydrogen are being engineered by Macquarie University researchers who received a $1.1 million grant from ARENA, the Australian government’s renewable energy …
Continue Reading about Bugs’ burps for efficient hydrogen production →
Turning coffee waste into coffee cups
A Macquarie PhD student believes he’s come up with a way to turn coffee waste into biodegradable plastic coffee cups. He’s developed a method to turn coffee grounds into lactic acid, which can then be …
Continue Reading about Turning coffee waste into coffee cups →
$6.9 million quest for new antibiotics from Australia’s unique microbiome
Macquarie University and UWA scientists will join forces with two Australian companies to search for new antibiotics in 500,000 species of Australian microbes. Background information below. The …
Continue Reading about $6.9 million quest for new antibiotics from Australia’s unique microbiome →
Macquarie and Analog Devices announce partnership to develop the next generation of design engineers
New lab designed to meet the demands of the next wireless revolution Macquarie’s School of Engineering today announced a partnership with semiconductor company Analog Devices, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADI) to …
The future of electronics is chemical
We can’t cram any more processing power into silicon-based computer chips. But a paper published in Nature overnight reveals how we can make electronic devices 10 times smaller, and use molecules to …
Continue Reading about The future of electronics is chemical →