IT’S stronger. It’s cheaper. It may once have been someone’s kitchen. It is also the road surface of choice for the City of Canning — provided they can get enough of it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE frustrations of working on a slow computer may finally go the way of the dinosaurs if an internationally-recognised Curtin University research project becomes a commercial reality.

 

 

 

 

 

 

DURACK II, a world-class building situated in the heart of the Perth CBD, sets a benchmark in environmentally-friendly design and is the brain-child of design, engineering, environmental, management, planning and advisory company AECOM.

DENTAL patients in WA may soon be asked to provide details about themselves as part of a new forensic project to develop better ways to identify human remains in Australia.

TECHNOLOGY used to spot cracks in space shuttle foam and distinguish talcum powder from cocaine could soon be able to detect skin burns and the early stages of cancers.

HOW should a business leader respond to an investment opportunity that offers a return of $50 for every $1 invested? According to Curtin University of Technology's Professor Rolf Gubner they wouldn’t get that in any bank or stock market, unless they’re very lucky, but smart thinking gives access to a potential goldmine.

MUCH of the discussion about combating infrastructure corrosion focuses on new technology materials but Curtin University’s Professor Rolf Gubner wants to get the message out that appropriate project design, materials selection and post-construction treatment programs could save billions of dollars each year.

 

SILENT Barrage is one of the most technologically-advanced pieces of artistic inquisition in the world, using a robotic creation to investigate the nature of thought and neural dysfunction in a SymbioticA support project.

 

IMAGINE being able to make spray-on roads across the desert, or being able to take a sandcastle home from the beach in the form of a solid rock sculpture.

MORE than 5000 WA marine species, some with cancer-killing and other medical and industrial potentials, will be housed in a newly-opened facility in Perth.

BRILLIANT young Indian Researcher Dr Debashis De won an Endeavour Postdoctoral Fellowship Award to work with Professor Jim Williams, Dr Sergei Samarin at the ARC Centre of Excellence Antimatter and Matter Studies (CAMS), School of Physics, University of Western Australia, in the first quarter of 2009.

WITH Alumina, or aluminium oxide, as Australia’s seventh largest export worth nearly $8 billion per year, research by Doctor Joanne Loh of CSIRO Minerals to optimise its refining process is being eagerly watched by the industry.

ARTIFICIAL implants in joint replacement surgery may become a thing of the past as Murdoch University’s Nanotechnology group looks at producing implants that are similar to bone.

Mineral processing involves extracting, concentrating and purifying minerals and metals from mined ore. The products of mineral processing are used in the manufacture of everything from cars and computers to jewellery and buildings.

A WA student’s use of nanotechnology to research retinal detachment treatment has won her a national accolade.

TYING together historical beliefs about garlic and vampirism with recent research into antioxidants, a leading researcher thinks our ancestors may not have been too far off the mark.

EDITH Cowan University’s School of Engineering is set to embark on two exciting new research projects with the installation of a new state of the art nanoindenter.

A WA STUDENT has received an international prize for his studies into the physiology of chitons, a type of primitive marine mollusc.

REAL estate investors and property buyers recently got a glimpse into the future as to how they’ll be able buy apartments and get property information in 3D, thanks to an innovative computer application developed in Perth.

THE public may not yet know much about nanotechnology, but the science of controlling matter on a miniscule scale is set to have a giant impact on our lives.