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World’s smelliest fruit could charge your mobile phone

21 July 2020 -
A University of Sydney researcher has developed an energy method using the world's most repulsive smelling fruit. Discover how transforming durian waste into super-capacitors could "substantially reduce" the cost of energy storage and charge devi
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2020/03/05/world-s-smelliest-fruit-could-charge-your-mobile-phone.html
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Fungi makes meal of hard-to-recycle plastic

15 April 2023 -
Polypropylene, a hard to recycle plastic, has successfully been biodegraded by two strains of fungi in a new experiment led by researchers at the University of Sydney.
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2023/04/14/fungi-makes-meal-of-hard-to-recycle-plastic.html
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World first tool to improve COVID 19 diagnosis free and online

16 October 2023 -
Award-winning University of Sydney start-up DetectED-X has directed its breast cancer diagnosis tool at the coronavirus, drawing on pandemic cases globally with support from healthcare and industry leaders to ramp up COVID-19 detection.
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2020/03/30/world-first-tool-to-improve-covid-19-diagnosis-free-and-online.html
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10 ways an arts degree can change the world

Why studying an arts degree can change the world. Find out more from Professor Duncan Ivison in this opinion piece.
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2020/06/26/10-ways-an-arts-degree-can-change-the-world.html
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New COVID vaccine among recipients of funding injection

14 May 2021 -
A single-dose vaccine that targets new COVID-19 variants has been awarded funding in the latest Medical Research Future Fund round.
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2021/05/14/new-covid-vaccine-among-recipients-of-funding-injection.html
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Genome technology to save Australia's unique biodiversity

22 May 2020 -
Australia is one of the most biologically unique and diverse countries in the world. But 480 animals and 1294 plants are listed as threatened. The Threatened Species Initiative aims to help protect them.
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2020/05/22/genome-technology-to-save-australias-unique-biodiversity.html
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Give women composers a break!

8 January 2020 -
The University of Sydney's Professor Liza Lim at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music is appealing to festival and concert programmers for an equal gender split in music commissions and performances.
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2017/08/11/give-women-composers-a-break-.html
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Bzzz, slap how to treat insect bites

Instead, recommendations are based on expert opinion and clinical experience. For instance, heath authorities promote some general advice on treating insect bites and stings.
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2021/01/19/bzzz--slap-how-to-treat-insect-bites.html
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Seeing in Colour

8 November 2021 -
Despite these setbacks, Edridge-Green continued to campaign for the acceptance of his lantern test and over the years, professional opinion gradually shifted.
www.sydney.edu.au/museum/news/2021/11/08/seeing-in-colour.html