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Australia’s drone revolution: our emerging UAV market
Drones are set to revitalize crops, preserve the environment and prevent disasters.
Dr Larry Marshall’s National Press Club Address
Dr Larry Marshall’s Address to the National Press Club on November 8.
Disrupting the rag trade with 3D printing
Fashion tech entrepreneur Tim Allison is collaborating with Australian PhD students to take 3D printing to the next level.
CSIRO Innovation Fund kicks off
Jobs of the future are on the agenda for the CSIRO Innovation Fund, which is investing $200 million in Australian research commercialisation.
Quantum gamble awarded best article of the year
INGENUITY magazine topped hundreds of publications to win Best Single Article of the Year at the annual Publish Awards.
Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science go to…
The winners of the 2017 Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science were announced this week – and here they are!
Research at SPARK
How to connect research with industry? Throw top leaders together in the Sydney School of Entrepreneurship and create the dynamic needed to smash out innovations.
Fight club at cybersecurity MOOC
Australia’s hottest hackers come from one Sydney lab, led by an affable professor who is on a mission to fight cybercrime at the world’s biggest institutions.
University innovation strategy
University innovation strategy has successes on the board and Australia should look to capitalise on these rather than focus on failures.
Improving alertness in critical environments
Tech company Opturion has partnered with the Alertness CRC to safeguard patients against doctors with fatigue.
Lifting Australia’s innovation performance
Innovation and Science Australia Chair Bill Ferris AC shares a number of challenges facing the nation in becoming a top-tier innovation nation.
Securing Australia’s agricultural future
The Plant Biosecurity CRC has paved the way for a world-class plant biosecurity system based on nationally coordinated, funded and enduring science.
Cleaning up toxic threats
Professor Ravi Naidu is confronting a problem that killed eight times more people in one year than diabetes.
New science magazine INGENUITY launched
UNSW and Refraction Media collaborate to create a brand new engineering magazine.
Superstars of STEM announced today!
Australia’s Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science has just announced the group of women chosen to be Australia’s first Superstars of STEM.
Preventing soil erosion with nuclear know-how
ANSTO is using nuclear science in a bid to understand the causes and rates of soil degradation throughout Asia and the Pacific.
Navigating the future of GPS
Australian and New Zealand know-how is on the cusp of revolutionising geopositioning, which – in the near future – will be able to get accuracy down to 10cm.
Testing zero-energy homes
How do carbon-neutral homes stack up when it comes to liveability and consumer demand?
Revitalising urban slums
Cutting-edge water designs created for developed cities can futureproof vulnerable and degraded environments in developing countries.
Lost satellite?
Our Aussie satellite is in orbit, but no signal has been detected so far.
Shining a light on space debris
Millions of bits of space junk are currently orbiting Earth, ranging in size from mere millimetres through to discarded, school bus-sized parts of multi-stage rockets.
New defence funding announced
Australian researchers will have unprecedented access to competitive funding in a new multidisciplinary program.
Beat the News with digital footprints
A groundbreaking D2D CRC program can now predict destabilising events such as social upheaval, political crises, election outcomes and disease epidemics.
Supercomputer study unlocks secrets of brain
Researchers have used a supercomputer to show how proteins in the brain control electrical signals, in a breakthrough that could lead to safer anaesthetics.