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Coffee grounds. | Newsreel

Charge into skinny caps for full-strength batteries

Coffee lovers, it’s time to step up, with future battery technology potentially in your latte-loving hands. Australia’s Nuclear Science and Technology
Read more 20 May 2024
Car crash on rural road. | Newsreel

Record road toll renews data sharing call

Australia has recorded its worst 12-month road toll in more than a decade. Bureau of Infrastructure and Transport Research Economic figures show 1310 people died on
Read more 18 May 2024
Pizza and mobile phone

Spam a recipe for Pizza Hut deep pain

Pizza Hut has been fined $2.5 million for sending more than 10 million marketing messages in breach of Australian spam laws. An Australian Communications and Media
Read more 17 May 2024
Bulimba Barracks artists impression. | Newsreel

Fresh look for old Bulimba Barracks site

The site of the former Bulimba Barracks is being transformed into a residential development with 800 dwellings. New artist’s impressions for the site were recently
Read more 17 May 2024
Lowering of Brisbane car parking requrements

Minimum car parks scaled back for city apartments

Brisbane City Council is scaling down mandatory car parking requirements in the inner city as part of efforts to make housing more affordable. The Inner-City
Read more 16 May 2024
Aerial view of the port of Brisbane

Robotic efficiency at ports focus of research

Research to improve the efficiency in our ports has received $1.5m in funding from the Queensland Government. Brisbane-based Young Guns Container Crew is developing
Read more 16 May 2024
Two trillion dollar price tag to phase out coal burning - Newsreel

Massive price tag on phasing out coal burning

Phasing out coal to meet international climate targets would cost at least $US 2 trillion, a new assessment has concluded. Researchers at Chalmers University of
Read more 15 May 2024
Workers looking over housing plans

Housing commitments a ‘down payment’ on pressing need

More needs to be done to accelerate the response to the housing crisis, despite industry groups acknowledging some promising initiatives in last night’s Federal
Read more 15 May 2024
Workers installing solar panels. | Newsreel

Roadmap to a renewable future welcome

The energy and environment sectors today welcomed the Federal Government’s budget, as it charts a course to power past fossil fuels and heads towards
Read more 15 May 2024
Sometimes people prefer chatbots - Newsreel

Sometimes you just want the chatbot

In the 1998 movie Small Soldiers one of the characters is trying to report some toys coming to life and running amok. He is talking to a human, and not having much luck
Read more 15 May 2024