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Tuesday 11 August 2026
The renowned statistician making sense of a changing planet
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Scientists watch, molecule by molecule, as cell helpers rescue problem proteins
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UOW researchers looking at signs of mental illness
Researchers are calling on the community to help them better understand perceptions of mental illness in the Illawarra and Shoalhaven region.
UOW congratulates its Queen’s Birthday Award recipients
ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵapp of ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵapp (UOW) Vice-Chancellor, Professor Paul Wellings CBE, today congratulated four associates whose service was recognised in the 2016 Queen’s Birthday Honours List in Australia and the United Kingdom.
Coal was king of the Industrial Revolution, but not always the path to a modern economy
Coal powered the machinery and lit what English poet William Blake described as ‘dark satanic mills’, writes Professor Simon Ville.
A 700,000-year-old fossil find shows the Hobbits’ ancestors were even smaller
New evidence shows hobbits were in Indonesia at least 700,000 years ago, writes Dr Gerrit (Gert) van den Bergh.
Remarkable new finds are clues to ‘hobbit’ ancestry
International team of researchers find 700,000-year-old hobbit remains.
Engineering students map flood risk in megacity of Jakarta
A group of UOW engineering students have investigated the deepest depths of Jakarta in not unchallenging conditions – all in the name of research.