14 November 2007 - PLENTY OF NOTHING: a hole new quantum spin
Electronic devices are always shrinking in size but it’s hard to imagine anything beating what researchers at the University of New South Wales have created: a tiny wire that doesn’t even use electron.....

09 November 2007 - Sabre-tooth tiger was a pussy
In public imagination, the sabre-toothed cat Smilodon ranks alongside Tyrannosaurus rex as the ultimate killing machine. Powerfully built, with upper canines like knives, Smilodon was a fearsome preda.....

09 November 2007 - Nobel peace prize:
UNSW researchers join celebrations
UNSW atmospheric scientist Andy Pitman has cause to celebrate the winning of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize by Al Gore and the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

09 November 2007 - Science stars in Young Tall Poppies
The outstanding achievements of Dr Emma Johnston, Dr Matt Taylor (Science Faculty) and Dr Nadine Kasparian (Medical Faculty) saw UNSW take home more Young Tall Poppy Awards than other competing instit.....

09 November 2007 - Birds take flight from marshes: survey
An aerial survey by UNSW researchers has revealed that waterbirds and water have vanished from the northern reaches of the internationally listed Macquarie Marshes wetland, north of Dubbo. It is the f.....

04 November 2007 - Science big winner in ARC funds
The Faculty of Science performed strongly when UNSW received more than $34 million in the latest round of Australian Research Council funding.

04 November 2007 - Our young scientists snare Bright Sparks awards
Science magazine Cosmos has named the top 10 young scientists in Australia – and two of them are UNSW researchers pursuing big advances in the very small worlds of molecular engineering and qua.....

07 September 2007 - Dog in hand scares bird in bush
New research showing that dog-walking in bushland significantly reduces bird diversity and abundance will lend support to bans against the practice in sensitive bushland and conservation areas.

07 September 2007 - Thylacine: the dingo did it
The wily dingo out-competed the much larger marsupial thylacine by being better built anatomically to resist the “mechanical stresses” associated with killing large prey, say Australian scientists.

05 September 2007 - Khmer kings were architects of their own demise
The Khmer kings who created the world's most extensive medieval "hydraulic city" surrounding Cambodia’s famed Angkor Wat were the architects of its eventual environmental collapse, says an Australian,.....