Industry
It’s a hit: engineering a better cricket bat
Cricket is an old sport that takes its traditions very seriously. That hasn’t stopped engineers from dreaming up new equipment...
Australian ‘sewage submarine’ detects COVID-19 in wastewater
A simple, cost-effective and portable device, shaped like a torpedo, has been successful in detecting SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater in Victoria...
World Engineering Day: Designing cities for people
The COVID-19 pandemic has amplified the competing needs engineers around the world must take into account when working on the...
Infographic: How technology can be used to shield Australia from bushfires
One Australian organisation wants to reduce the scale and impact of dangerous bushfires by extinguishing them within one hour of...
What does it take to put a rover on Mars? Perseverance
The delivery of the Mars rover Perseverance, safe and sound onto a Martian lake, is arguably the ultimate example of...
Texas freeze spotlights need for forward planning
With record-setting cold weather cutting water and energy supplies across a wide swath of Texas recently, create asked Australian engineers...
The Navy is exploring additive manufacturing for its submarine repair
Some of the country’s leading defence specialists are adapting repair technologies to help the Australian Navy operate more effectively.
Three technologies keeping drivers safer on the road
Around the world, 1.35 million people die from road toll accidents per year — about 3700 deaths per day. Here...
Seeing Machines improves driver safety by monitoring for signs of fatigue
Seeing Machines, an Australian business founded in 2000, is developing systems that could one day be able to determine what...
On a project as unprecedented as Snowy 2.0, the tunnelling machines are anything but ‘boring’
Three large tunnel boring machines have arrived in Australia to begin work on Snowy 2.0, Australia’s largest renewable energy project....
