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Are fungi that eat up plastic a solution to our waste woes?

Pangolin-inspired mini robot could aid future surgery

Leading quantum physicist keen to “meet grand challenges” as new Sydney Nano director

What is nanotechnology?

Tiny, ultra-fast breakthrough device mimicking human vision could be used for next gen bionic eye

Toy story: How three Barbies found their way into a Victorian museum collection of playthings

Core blimey! A virtual museum for tooling up on stone artefacts

What’s going on at Australia’s ageing nuclear campus?

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Our big patchwork quilt: the greening of Australia’s building industry

Protein can sort rare earth elements better than current mining practices

Egyptian Queen Hetepheres’s 4,600-year-old bracelets reveal ancient trade networks

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