Australia’s universities have built the nation’s quantum expertise and abilities for decades, making a multibillion-dollar industry possible.

Cybernetics is a type of engineering study exploring big dynamic systems, like the internet, the environment, governments, cultures and even our own bodies. It is also about building new systems that bring together people, technology and the environment.

Artificial intelligence-powered tutors for every child, state-of-the-art medical developments and the death of the call centre are among some of the ways AI will revolutionise every industry sector, a conference has been told.

How can seaweed change the world? For one thing it can superpower the Australian science industry, and academic and business is calling for a roadmap to capitalise on innovation.

QUT researchers have developed a unique and improved approach to the way robots see, with the aim of making cheap and reliable positioning systems for applications such as service robots and general autonomous vehicle systems.

iMOVE CRC launches $1m impact fund for Australian companies to bring new transport sector tech innovations to market

Webinar: Strengthening the future nuclear workforce with diverse skills and knowledge. 21 June 2023.

The latest issue of Australian University Science asserts that the university-science research value chain is complex, iterative, and has value at all stages.

Dr Katherine Woodthorpe asserts that university research is never just basic, or just commercialisable: it’s a complex value chain that drives innovation.

For innovation, overnight success is often decades in the making: a keystone of which almost always comes from basic science at universities.

Researchers work across every part of the spectrum, from seeking fundamental knowledge to developing participatory outcomes that include benefits to end users, influence on policy, commercial partnerships and outcomes.

Fundamental university science research has drawn inspiration from the Great Barrier Reef’s carbon storage capacity, the plant world’s ultra-efficient storage and transport structure, the reinvention solid state physics to develop new materials for electronic efficiency and advanced agricultural to nourish future outposts in space.

New innovation precinct to position city as an international destination of global research and enterprise.

Join this discussion exploring the environmental impacts of decommissioning oil and gas structures in an environmentally responsible manner at minimal cost.

STA proposes a new future fund to boost Australia’s research and development investment.

New type of quantum bit combines the exquisite quantum properties of single atoms with easy controllability using electric signals.

Australia’s mounting packaging stockpile could soon shrink with a little help from greener packaging made from vegetable waste.

Webinar: Connect with the businesses and organisations driving advanced manufacturing supporting green technologies.

$200,000 worth of scholarships up for grabs at ANSTO. Applications close Sunday 27 November.

Seventy five per cent of IT decision-makers report a gap in digital skills, 145% over the previous year.

Webinar: How researchers, government and industry are collaborating to ensure Australia leads the world in food security using cutting-edge technology.

The launch of the new Asia Trade and Innovation Hub is one of the key activities underpinned by a strategic partnership between Asia Society Australia and RMIT.

A new type of solid-state polymer electrolyte shows its potential.

Building a deep tech innovation ecosystem is challenging — so what might we be able to learn from our neighbours over in Silicon Valley? Luckily the answer is plenty.