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Thursday 30 April 2026
Spray-on skin pioneer Fiona Wood to speak at UOW on innovation in skin regeneration
Read more about Spray-on skin pioneer Fiona Wood to speak at UOW on innovation in skin regenerationThursday 30 April 2026
Eight UOW students awarded prestigious Westpac Scholarships
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Science and Technology
The lessons to be learned now the ABC’s pulled its ‘inaccurate’ Wi-Fried program
The ABC breached its impartiality standards in a Catalyst program on the safety of wireless devices such as mobile phones, writes UOW's Professor Rodney Croft.
Law, Politics and Society
Video didn’t kill the radio star – she’s hosting a podcast
Are we in the midst of a podcasting revolution? Siobhan McHugh comments.
Environment and Energy
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.
Science and Technology
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.
Law, Politics and Society
Unclear about fairness, Australia’s major parties focus on expediency
Scott Morrison said the government’s changes to superannuation were done in the name of fairness, writes UOW's Associate Professor Gregory Melleuish.
Health and Medicine
Don’t hang up yet: the latest study linking mobile phones to cancer has big problems
There is still no firm evidence that mobile phones cause cancer, writes Professor Rodney Croft.