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An international research team has developed what it describes as the first high-performance, commercially sized tandem solar cell that does not rely on indium, a metal that is scarce and widely used in electronics manufacturing. In findings published in Science, the researchers report replacing indium-based oxide with tin oxide, an abundant material they say costs [...]

Australian environmental technology company SiteHive has expanded its IoT environmental intelligence platform with the launch of SiteHive Weather, integrating real-time weather monitoring into the same cloud platform used for dust, noise, vibration and water monitoring on construction and infrastructure projects. The company says the addition is intended to help operators correl...

Macquarie Technology Group has exercised a call option to purchase a A$240 million parcel of land in Sydney’s Macquarie Park, with the company proposing to build an engineering and technology campus co-located with an approximately 200-megawatt data centre development. The company said the purchase follows completion of a subdivision process linked to a put and [...]

Silicon Microgravity Limited (SMG) has raised £6 million in funding as it seeks to expand UK manufacturing and semiconductor production capacity for its MEMS (microelectromechanical systems) devices used in defence and space-related applications. The round was led by West Hill Capital and included investment from the UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund (UKI2S), managed by [...]

CSIRO, in partnership with the Australian Energy Market Operator, has released the GenCost 2025–26 Final Report, which assesses the costs of new-build electricity generation, storage and hydrogen technologies in Australia. The report says renewable generation backed by storage remains the lowest-cost investment pathway for an electricity system moving toward net zero emissions, ...