NewsFeed: 14 - 18 February

And, as usual, there's some crackers.

Monday

Food for the soul.

• Coverage (international, at that!) continued for mungbean research out of our Centre for Crop Health. Via Seed Today.

Did video really kill the radio star?

• Dr Ashley Jones was heard on ABC News talking about why the future still lies across the airwaves.

Tuesday

A new and exciting adventure.

• Orientation Week at the University of Southern Queensland was featured… everywhere. A full media scrum, if you will. More via UniSQ News, 7News Toowoomba and WIN News Toowoomba.

Time to go back to the future.

• Researchers from our Centre for Future Materials have created a sustainable ‘smart plaster’ for orthopaedic treatments. Find out how via NewsWire.

Wednesday

A mid-week CNN feature.

• Professor Peter Terry was interviewed about the kind of pressure that young athletes face in high level sporting competitions. A fascinating read (which was also picked up by WWOS).

A blazing story.

• The International Space Station is set to come home in a fiery blaze and Australia will likely have a front row seat, wrote Dr Fabian Zander for The Conversation. All we have to say is… get the popcorn ready.

Wouldn’t be a Wednesday without some drama in space.

• Turns out the Man on the Moon is a (Chinese) rocket. But what’s really going on? Professor Jonti Horner provided the answers in South China Morning Post.

Thursday

The lay of The Land…

• News. Dr Stephan Tait from our Centre for Agricultural Engineering is helping turn food waste into future fuels.

The new and exciting adventure continues.

• With a social video, for good measure.

Friday

An incredible achievement.

• We’ve jumped 30 spots to place 86th in the prestigious 2022 Times Higher Education Young University Rankings! Read more about how we’re making a difference to our communities by solving real world problems.

Next week at a glance

• There will be so many stories... we might just break the Internet.