2016
Articles
Abracadabra
Current sports bras, while helping to limit breast movement, do have their limitations.
Kate Swaffer
Poet, author, activist and academic, Kate Swaffer reveals how she is living beyond younger onset dementia.
Taking medicine to new extremes
From Mars to Antarctica, and the sprawling food bowls of rural New South Wales, medical graduate John Cherry has a thing for extreme environments.
Discovering new chapters in our story
The story of the Hobbits, a new species of tiny people that would rewrite history books, capture imaginations around the world
A house for all
A people-focused approach to building design will lead to better quality of care for people living with dementia.
How fish scales and magnets could mop up oil spills
What started as an off-the-cuff challenge in the laboratory has led to two novel methods of using magnetic forces to control how oil droplets move within other liquids, including water. Research fellow Dr Yi Du, from UOW’s Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials (ISEM), set new PhD student Haifeng Feng a series of tasks to help him familiarise himself with the lab equipment.
Against the odds
A young village girl from Thailand with a passion for mathematics proved that it doesn't matter where you come from, you can change the world.
Quiet healers
These frontline workers might not wear capes, but to many of their patients they are heroes.
Schoolyard politics on a global scale
The world watches closely as international tribunal rules on the South China Sea