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26 September 2019

New smart materials to tackle global challenges

Griffith researchers develop smart materials platform capable of aiding in the creation of new drugs and the clean-up of polluted environments.

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27 April 2020
A bowl of salad

Personalised nutrition smart patch to be developed in Australia

A wearable smart patch will deliver precision data to help people personalise their diets and reduce their risk of developing lifestyle-related chronic diseases like Type 2 diabetes.

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5 May 2017
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3 April 2019
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5 September 2018
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22 July 2024
Appliance junk

Is Australia becoming a dumping ground for unrepairable appliances?

What happens when appliances break? Unfortunately, broken appliances are unlikely to be repaired. It doesn’t have to be this way, however. If we fail to keep up with legal developments in other parts of the world, Australia could soon become a dumping ground for cheap and nasty appliances.

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3 March 2023
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24 May 2022

Visualising the next economic transition

The dominant language around great economic transitions of modern times suggests they have been caused by leaps in technological innovation. These normative narratives suggest that it was the leveraging of new technologies that opened the way for the subsequent reshaping of our economies, and our societies. But if we look more closely at the major ‘ages of transition’, it is clear that they didn’t just follow on from purely technological innovation.

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11 August 2021
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3 June 2021
After the Pandemic

In Conversation with Professor Nigel McMillan, Dr Rebecca Huntley and Mik Auckland

After the Pandemic: Imagining the Future Our response to coronavirus will shape Australia for decades to come. It has been...

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