Faculty of Science and Engineering
How soon will all Australians be driving electric cars?
Following the UK’s announcement that it will ban the sale of petrol and diesel cars from 2035, Professor Graham Town nominates the year Australians will make the switch to all-electric vehicles.
New starlight collector detects earth-sized planets outside our solar system
For the first time we will be able to see the light from unimaginably distant stars thanks to a breakthrough astronomical instrument designed by Macquarie astrophysicist Christian Schwab.
River recovery research wins ARC Linkage Project funding
Macquarie University’s Professor Kirstie Fryirs and her team have been awarded $600,000 over three years under the Australian Research Council Linkage Project scheme.
'Bees with backpacks' study crucial in fight to protect fresh food supply
Australia’s Honey Bee population has taken a blow over the past 12 months with drought and fires resulting in a 70 per-cent drop in honey production - but Macquarie researchers hope their innovative new project will help solve the crisis.
NEID Exoplanet Instrument sees first light
Its name means ‘to see’, and it has just taken its first observations.
Stopping poaching by the numbers
Mathematics can help reduce poaching and illegal logging in national parks, researchers have found.
The 2010s: A fiery wake-up call over environment inaction
Macquarie University experts look back on the big events of the last 10 years in the economy, health and medicine, the environment and politics and predict what the 2020s might bring.
Ground-breaking new study finally establishes the timing of Homo erectus’s last stand in Indonesia
An international team of researchers led by Institute of Technology, Indonesia, Macquarie University, Australia and University of Iowa, USA, used modern archaeological science techniques to identify when our ancestors went extinct.
Hunting molecules that signal pain
A new microscope-based method for detecting a particular molecule in the spinal cord could help lead to an accurate and independent universal pain scale, research from Australia’s Macquarie University suggests.
Device makes electric vehicle charging a two-way street
A new device turns electric vehicles into chargers for houses and stranded cars.
Just how dangerous is bushfire smoke to your health?
As a thick haze continues to cover New South Wales' east coast and air quality reaches 11 times the 'hazardous' level, Professor Mark Patrick Taylor and Dr Cynthia Faye Isley, from the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, explain the main
Can we predict when a volcano will erupt?
The recent tragedy in New Zealand highlights the difficulties faced by scientists in forecasting volcanic eruptions. Dr Christina Magill, from Macquarie University's Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, explains.