Science
Automated vehicle technology will be tested in rural Victoria this year, with the State Government awarding Bosch $2.3 million from the Connected and Automated Vehicle… ARENA completes grid-scale battery to boost SA energy security
Written by Peter Dinham
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency has completed a 30 MW / 8 MWh grid-scale battery at the Dalrymple substation on South Australia’s Yorke Peninsula. 
Researchers at Flinders University claim a breakthrough in finding the structure of "rogue clones" that cause the auto-immune disease Lupus and say it could help… Aireon’s latest satellite launch to usher in a 'new era' of global aircraft surveillance
Written by Peter Dinham
American satellite-based global aircraft tracking and surveillance system operator Aireon has announced a successful eighth and final launch and deployment of the Iridium NEXT satellite… Brisbane's first free EV charging station opened by JAX
Written by Sam Varghese
Tyre and mechanical servicing outlet JAX Tyres has opened its first, free electric car charging station at Woolloongabba in South Brisbane. 
Construction of the first large dispatchable solar generator in Australia’s national electricity market will start in early 2019 after it secured its generator performance standard… Peter Mac gets 3-D printing platform to speed up cancer research
Written by Sam Varghese
A 3-D bio-printing platform known as RASTRUM has been installed at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and will enable scientists to print three-dimensional tissues that… 
Researchers at the Australian National University have collaborated with their counterparts at the California Institute of Technology to come up with a way of combining… 
Telemedicine researchers at Australia's national science agency, the CSIRO, have developed new video-streaming technology to help parents stay connected to their premature babies while in… CSIRO supports European Space Agency at WA tracking station
Written by Peter Dinham
Australia’s national science agency CSIRO has been selected to provide maintenance and operational support for the European Space Agency’s deep space tracking station at New… 
