NASA celebrated the landing of #MarsPersevere on Feb 18. Abigail Allwood has been working on PIXL. Engineers at JPL and QUT have been building software to crunch the data as it comes down from Mars, making PIXL more relevant to the whole tactical decision-making process, including selection of samples. David Flannery will guide the team of scientists on the mission where to go and which samples to take. More> https://ab.co/37usWJZFrom left to right: Brendan Orenstein (PhD student), Julian Andres Galvez Serna (PhD student), Michael Jones (Collaborator), Peter Nemere (Collaborator), David Flannery (Co-I), Luke Nothdurft (Collaborator), Vanessa Zepeda (PhD student).

Article from https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/young-woman-in-kenya-makes-plastic-bricks-out-of-recycled-waste/?   on Founder of Gjenge Makers, which transforms plastic waste into durable building materials, Matee also designed the machines that manufacture the bricks in her factory.

US Defence research agency (DARPA) is underway with innovative projects to test unmanned underwater vehicles - testing if they can operate for extended periods without human support. While typically a defence use case, how navigation, energy management and corrosion is tackled could help accelerate other industrieshttps://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2021-02-05aimage credit: slashgear.com (march 2020)

New virtual platform to connect and promote Australian wine to the world.Australian Wine Connect will create a bold new world of opportunities for Australian wineries to promote their products across the UK, Europe, USA, Canada and Asian markets. It will allow buyers from across the world to network and meet producers, discover new wines, link up with distributors and enable sales conversations.More - https://www.wineaustralia.com/news/media-releases/new-virtual-platform-to-connect

Australian researchers have identified a way to reuse some of the estimated 6.8 billion disposable facemasks used daily around the world, describing a road-making material that meets civil engineering standards and contains the equivalent of 3 million shredded masks per kilometre.“This initial study looked at the feasibility of recycling single-use face masks into roads and we were thrilled to find it not only works, but also delivers real engineering benefits,” said Dr Mohammad Saberian, lead author of the paper published in Science of the Total Environment.The mix also includes recycled concrete aggregate. Thttps://www.aumanufacturing.com.au/rmit-engineers-present-a-road-to-reusing-billions-of-disposable-masks