Posts by Andrew Warren

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Communicating science to a fresh audience

One of our postdoctoral researchers gives us the lowdown on why communication is a key skill for scientists, and what it was like taking part in Fresh Science.

CSIRO Parkes Radiotelescope pointed towards the night's sky.

The Dish joins global search for new signs of life

Breakthrough Listen — the largest search for extraterrestrial life — has launched today at our Parkes radio telescope, turning its mighty eye on the 'exo-Earth' Proxima b.

Digital Pie

We’ve added a slice of ‘deep learning’ to our high-performance computing pie

One of the things we do best is to make sense of data. We've just created the world's first NVIDIA DGX-1 HPC cluster for deep learning.

View of earth from the stratosphere

Launching giant space balloons from the centre of Australia

A team of astronomers led by the French space agency CNES are heading to Alice Springs next year to use a giant balloon 30 storeys high to lift a 1-tonne telescope 40kms above the Earth

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IceCube and the tale of the Big Bird neutrino

We've used our Parkes telescope to help trace the origin of the Big Bird neutrino to a galaxy 9.1 billion light years away.

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The supercomputing behind our superlative science

Meet our latest supercomputer Ruby, an SGI UV3000 named after Australia’s pioneering radio astronomer Ruby Payne-Scott.

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RV Investigator’s tales from the sea: week seven

An update from week #7 (17-23 Feb) aboard RV Investigator from the voyage’s Chief Scientist Prof Mike Coffin - evacuation, lightening, great science and art

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Science on the high seas – my first voyage on the RV Investigator

Kendall Sherrin shares what life aboard RV Investigator is like for a young scientist

RV Investigator’s tales from the sea: week six

Update #6 - An unexpected turn of events, bubbles from the sea floor, a live interview from the ship, and homeward bound.

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Sampling the Southern Ocean for the building blocks of life

In this blog Andrew Bowie shares his latest research and what it’s like working in the windiest and wildest ocean in the world.

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Amazing sights in the Southern Ocean

Update from weeks 4 and 5 from RV Investigator's voyage to Heard and McDonald Islands - The amazing sight of Big Ben erupting

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RV Investigator’s tales from the sea: week two

The second in a weekly series of updates from the voyage's Chief Scientist Mike Coffin: Welcome to the Furious Fifties, Daily Seminars, Meet our Sensors.