A 101-year-old woman keeps getting mistaken for a baby because of an error with an airline's booking system.
… American Airlines' systems apparently cannot compute that Patricia was born in 1922, rather than 2022.
bbc.com/news/articles/…

“At a recent workshop, researchers and journalists debated how to announce a potential discovery of extraterrestrial life”
scientificamerican.com/article/if-ali…

Yen is crashing - interesting to see the consequences

‘Unlike anything today’: Gippsland fossil unlocks secrets of kangaroo that died out 46,000 years ago
The abrupt extinction of the short-faced kangaroo is a reminder to protect the environment, palaeontologists say theguardian.com/science/2024/a…

Heavy rain and flooding are coming back to Sydney

Our recent collaborative work

Initiating a new era for cold brew coffee: “brewing sonoreactor for reducing the time of cold brew from several hours to minutes while maintaining sensory attributes”
First authors: Shih-Hao Chiu
Led by Trujillo

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The first proper get together with our research group at the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering USYD (also with a few nice guests)
Beautiful day for a BBQ
Thanks everyone

We have a guest !
Sydney
25 April 2024

Piccolo with a number
Sydney
25 April 2024

Diamond out of liquid metals
“Growth of diamond in liquid metal at 1 atm pressure”
Led by Rodney Ruoff
Rodney S. Ruoff

nature.com/articles/s4158…

Machine learning for understanding mechanics of insects' wing hinges
By Johan Melis (California Institute of Technology), Igor Siwanowicz (Howard Hughes Medical Institute) & Michael Dickinson (California Institute of Technology)
nature.com/articles/s4158…

“Blood for Graphene Production”
Led by Mayorov, Novoselov and Yu
“ACS Applied Nano Materials” supports interesting papers, but this one is even beyond my imagination
Remember that Novoselov is a Nobel Prize Laureate
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Living fossil helps decode past

The 'enigmatic' Tasmanian mountain shrimp allows researchers to look back 200 million years

abc.net.au/news/2024-04-2…

The southern lights were visible to stargazers in Adelaide this Saturday.
Many more detected the light show in Tasmania.
The phenomenon is set to become more frequent ahead of the solar maximum in July 2025

abc.net.au/news/2024-04-2…

Estimates of the projected reduction in income/capita … under a low-emission scenario compatible with the 2 °C warming target and a high-emission scenario (SSP2-RCP2.6 and SSP5-RCP8.5, respectively)

nature.com/articles/s4158…

Cool spread on FLEET in April's Materials Australia magazine, including Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh's liquid-metals work at UNSW Sydney Science and Julie Karel's work with amorphous magnetic materials Monash University + leadership of FLEET's science-outreach program

issuu.com/materialsaustr…

Sometimes you have to “say no”!

Pareto: Maximize impact
Eisenhower: Distill priorities
OKRs: Sharpen focus
MoSCoW: Define musts
RICE: Decide with data
Kano: Satisfy smartly

Credit to Jay Mount Jay Mount

On belowground plant communication:

“Although there are multiple examples of aboveground plant communication,
belowground plant communication represents a similarly captivating phenomenon that has thus far received less exploration.”

science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Shall we write a paper about this?

Yellow hibiscus
Sydney
20 April 2024