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.

ANSTO and UNSW researchers have developed a new method for reconstructing the country’s fire history using cave stalagmites.

Survey to shed light on current conditions and opportunities in Australia’s STEM sector

AI in education is under examination, but can it help as well as hinder?

Women pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering, and maths are still fighting an uphill battle in Australian workplaces, despite a spike in girls studying STEM subjects in schools and universities.

Careers with STEM program evaluation launches showing platform plays an important part in encouraging young people to pursue courses and careers in STEM.

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

Universities are the hubs of transformative innovation, where every year, countless new ideas take flight.

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.

The AWS Clean Energy Accelerator program is focused on fostering innovation and rapid growth of clean energy technology.

Global coffee production is facing threats due to increasing and concurrent hazards fuelled by climate change

Refraction Media, Australia’s leading STEM media company, has recently appointed Charis Palmer Managing Editor. 

ANSTO researchers explore the potential impact of contaminants on decommissioned offshore oil and gas infrastructure.

New research finds almost 4000 Australian plant species have not been photographed before in the wild, which may lead to their extinction.

Mortality rates of orphaned koala joeys could be greatly reduced by a non-invasive stress test kit being trialled by UQ researchers.

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

The Australian Government has asked me to develop a draft list of national science priorities.

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

Researchers at the QUT-operated National Battery Testing Centre (NBTC) have commissioned the biggest large-scale iron flow battery – and the first of its kind – outside of the United States.

A new antimicrobial suture material that glows in medical imaging could provide a promising alternative for mesh implants and internal stitches.