maths

Carbon emissions strategy tool - a first for Australian industry

24 Feb 2010, 2.59 PM

University of Melbourne mathematicians have developed a software tool to help maximize investment and minimize the cost of carbon emissions compliance.

One nano-step closer to weighing a single atom

27 Jul 2009, 9.44 PM

By studying gold nanoparticles with highly uniform sizes and shapes, scientists now understand how they lose energy, a key step towards producing nanoscale detectors for weighing any single atom.