WITH few clunky mechanical parts, the revolutionary all-electric ManGo may well be the car of the future.
But its creators will first have to get it out of the garage.
For five months, 35 of the University of Sydney’s brightest first-year engineering students have been labouring in a workshop, solving a maze of complex technical problems.
Scheduled to [...]

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The Victorian Government is making it mandatory for all government schools to audit their water use in an attempt to reduce unnecessary water usage and encourage efficient water use habits.
Roughly 400 schools have voluntarily taken part in the schools water efficiency program and on average, they have cut their water use by 13 per cent.
The program will cost [...]

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A $100-million dollar supercomputer will be built at the University of Melbourne for biomedical research.
The Victorian Premier, John Brumby, announced the project in San Diego overnight.
The powerful computers will be used to process complex data for research on the life sciences.
Professor Geoffrey Taylor says, high performance computing is essential for medical advances to be made.
“Now [...]

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