Australian Research Council (ARC) Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Professor Sue Thomas, has welcomed the launch of an ARC Training Centre that will focus on the next generation of automated composite manufacturing innovations. The ARC Training Centre for Automated Manufacture of Advanced Composites (AMAC), based at The University of New South Wales, is receiving
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Coral bleaching survivors, which may hold the answers to restoring reefs, will make a rare flight from Queensland’s far northern Great Barrier Reef to Townsville today. Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) researchers are among a group of scientists taking part in a GBR Legacy trip in the hope of finding
Read MoreNorth Queensland cane farmers are saving up to 20% on irrigation costs courtesy of sensors and micro weather stations designed by an AgriFutures Australia sponsored startup. The WaterSave solution, led by serial startup entrepreneur Damian Zammit, is also reducing fertiliser leakage to the Great Barrier Reef. AgriFutures Australia is sponsoring Mr Zammit
Read MoreThe Clean Energy Regulator is pleased to see Australia’s agriculture sector officially recognised at the inaugural National Agriculture Day, Tuesday 20 November. The sector can take huge pride in knowing that, in the past twenty years, it has halved its greenhouse gas emissions. Clean Energy Regulator Chair David Parker said it’s well
Read MoreThe Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) today announced $4.03 million in funding for Australian yeast developer Microbiogen to make production of bioethanol from plant waste cheaper and more efficient. The project, totalling $8.06 million, will aim to optimise biocatalysts targeted to more efficiently convert sugars to bioethanol for commercial production. On behalf
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NASA has successfully launched for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) the first in a series of four highly advanced polar-orbiting satellites, equipped with next-generation technology and designed to improve the accuracy of U.S. weather forecasts out to seven days. The Joint Polar Satellite System-1 (JPSS-1) lifted off on a
Read MoreThe scientist who gave the inaugural Distinguished Lecture at ANSTO in 2009 on fusion energy is returning in early December to deliver a second on the ITER fusion reactor development project. Professor Barry Green, who is a leading expert in plasma physics, will discuss the world's biggest engineering project under construction
Read MoreThe Turnbull Government has backed a new Centre for Excellence to support a vital national and international research program into gravitational waves. Minister for Education and Training Simon Birmingham today officially launched the Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery and said the facility will be critical in progressing further collaborative research in
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The breakthrough was announced by CSIRO’s Chief Executive Dr Larry Marshall in an address to the National Press Club in Canberra today. “Cracking the carbon code will allow industry to manufacture this incredibly strong and lightweight material for the first time from scratch, using Australia’s own top secret recipe,” Dr Marshall
Read MoreAn Australian-first cancer treatment facility was the hot topic at the National Particle Therapy Symposium in Adelaide on Monday. The event brought together medical and health experts from across Australia and New Zealand, to discuss emerging advances in patient treatment, clinical trials and technology, including from: The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology
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