Some people would rather walk away with $10 than earn $20 by doing a tedious task. It isn’t necessarily laziness, more that somewhere between the promise of a reward and the prospect of 30 mind-numbing minutes, the extra $10 just doesn’t seem worth it. The private psychological cost of effort is one of the least…
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Sydney Craft Week Returns
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Sydney Craft Week will return in October 2026 with nearly 100 events celebrating the makers, studios and creative communities shaping Sydney’s craft scene. Following the closure of the Australian Design Centre, UNSW School of Art & Design will produce the tenth Sydney Craft Festival, bringing workshops, markets, exhibitions and open studios to venues across Sydney…
UNSW and Harris Farm collaborate to promote brain-healthy eating for Dementia Action Week
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UNSW dementia prevention research is coming to stores and homes through brain-healthy food information, recipes and specially curated food boxes. UNSW Sydney dementia prevention research is moving into Australians’ shopping baskets this Dementia Action Week, through a new partnership with Harris Farm Markets. The initiative aims to raise awareness of the role that diet and…
81 year old to ‘Ride Out Dementia’
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Illawarra cyclist Janice Fitzpatrick will ride 40km around Canberra’s Lake Burley Griffin, turning a passion she shared with her late husband Bernie into a mission to help change the future of dementia – with a growing community rallying behind her. For decades, cycling meant companionship for Janice and Bernie Fitzpatrick. The couple met as trainee…
UNSW to invest $65m for new Campus in Parramatta
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Bringing more world-class education to students of Western Sydney, UNSW has announced it will invest $65m over 10 years for a multi-faculty campus in Parramatta. It has just signed a new lease in Parramatta as part of expanding the university’s broader Western Sydney Precinct. “This is an investment that sits at the core of our…
Ultrasonic Coffee
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Researchers at UNSW Sydney have harnessed the power of ultrasonic sound waves to make espresso-strength coffee with room temperature water, cutting energy use by up to 75%. That morning coffee kick from a shot of espresso needs boiling water and high pressure – equalling plenty of energy consumption, right? Now, UNSW researchers have shown that…
New Star Wars-like planet candidates with two suns discovered
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A team of astronomers led by UNSW Sydney have piloted a new method to find planets – and in the process, found 27 potential new worlds in double star systems. There’s so little we know about circumbinary planets – planets that orbit two stars instead of one – that they can feel like the stuff…
Trying to Distinguish Real Faces From AI Generated Ones
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Many of us rely on outdated visual cues when trying to distinguish real faces from highly realistic AI-generated ones, with even people who have exceptional face-recognition skills being fooled.Most people believe they can spot AI-generated faces, but that confidence is out of date, research from UNSW Sydney and the Australian National University (ANU) has demonstrated.…
Coffee Scraps Helping Blueberries
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Ever splurged on a punnet (or few) of blueberries only to find them a wrinkled, grey-flecked disappointment in your fridge a few days later? You’re not alone. This little blue superfood is known for perishing quickly.But now, a team of chemical engineers from UNSW Sydney are working on slowing down that decline. They’ve developed an…
The Nursery Rhymes of Leopard Seals
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In a recently published study, UNSW Sydney researchers found that the underwater songs of leopard seals (Hydrurga leptonyx) in Antarctica share structural similarities with the nursery rhymes often sung by humans to their young. “Leopard seal songs have a surprisingly structured temporal pattern,” Lucinda Chambers, a UNSW PhD candidate and lead author of the study…