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Experienced chief executive and Australian policy leader Ryan Winn is to lead Science & Technology Australia (STA) as its new Chief Executive Officer.

Scientists from Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, have led an international team to a “clean energy breakthrough” by setting a new efficiency record for fully roll-to-roll printed solar cells.

The “first paint” to protect in extreme bushfire conditions has been created in Australia in conjunction with world leading scientists and engineers from the University of New South Wales (UNSW).

Scientists from CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, and Queensland University of Technology, have partnered to use artificial intelligence to develop a “world-first benchmark” for measuring brain atrophy – or thinning - in neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease.

A new 'blue carbon' collaboration between CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), and Google Australia has been announced, with the collaboration aimed at helping scientists to map and understand seagrass ecosystems and their ability to absorb and sequester carbon, supporting climate resilience, Indo-Pacific and Australian coastlines, and the people and livelihoods that rely on them.

The State Government of Western Australia has awarded Edith Cowan University scientists a $150,000 grant to work alongside leading artificial intelligence companies to design technology that teaches defence force robots to read hand gestures.

RMIT University experts in diamond sensing technology have collaborated with an international research team of scientists who have taken a “promising step” towards a new generation of accurate, affordable and portable devices to detect concussion, epilepsy and dementia.

Australian scientists have modelled a way to determine how many cases of COVID-19 could be travelling on any international flight, based on data from the first six months of the pandemic, which they say could help Australian authorities make decisions about incoming international travel. 

Director of UNSW Canberra Space Professor Russell Boyce has been named a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).

Australian scientists including an optics and telecommunications expert have been awarded over a quarter of a million dollars to commercialise their research by the CSIRO’s ON technology accelerator program and the Menzies Foundation.

The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation has formally launched the nandin Deep Technology Incubator, a full-service innovation hub, aimed at enabling the best and the brightest minds to come together to foster innovation and change.

CSIRO scientists have developed new technology they say supercharges water purification, making it simpler, more effective and quicker.

A national climate research centre is to be established in the Tasmanian capital of Hobart to focus on climate modelling and projections for Australia.

The Federal Government has announced funding of nearly a million dollars to encourage more people of all ages and background to become more involved in science and research.

Shark deterrent technologies, including satellite tracking and electric currents, are amongst the options considered at a state government summit in Sydney after a spate of shark attacks off the New South Wales coast this year.

Scientists say they have taken away valuable lessons from the latest trial of the joint Australia-US Hypersonic International Flight Research Experimentation (HIFiRE) program conducted recently at the Andøya Rocket Range in Norway.

Scientists are calling for more protective EMF guidelines regarding risks from the ubiquitous exposure to non-ionising electromagnetic field exposure, but is this another Climategate scam?

Key agricultural districts in Australia are now available with RapidEye satellite imagery.