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Lithium, the metal of the decade

What's powering your phone? It’s most likely a lithium ion battery. Australia is the world's largest producer of lithium, and the global demand is growing. We're working to supercharge our research in lithium exploration and production.

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Flexing our solar muscle: solar for everyone, everywhere

Australians love solar and we’re an extremely sunny place so it makes sense. But traditional solar panels have some limitations. Enter flexible solar.

A scientific show and tell with Dr Larry Marshall

We put our Chief Executive, Dr Larry Marshall up for a special episode of Q&A. But we’ve since had a lot of questions about what he raised on the show. So like Larry after smuggling all his gadgets into the ABC studios, let’s unpack all the highlights and what they mean for cleaner energy.

Protecting the proteins that protect us from cancer

We’re researching a treatment to target prostate and HPV-related cancers including cervical, anal and head and neck cancers.

Detecting the ‘drop dead’ drug—fentanyl

Fentanyl is 50–100 times more powerful than morphine, and it's fuelling a spike in overdose deaths in Australia. We've created a new way to detect this drug.

Kick the tires and light the fires: our science is taking off at the Avalon Airshow

We’re up where we belong at the Avalon Airshow, showing off our breakthrough research in the aerospace industry.

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Clamping down on the mysterious Disease X

We're working with CEPI and The University of Queensland on “just in time” technologies to fight the next global pandemic.

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Robots of the future: it’s about to get weird

In a just published paper our scientists have offered a bold glimpse into what the robots of the future could look like – and it’s not “Robby the Robot”.

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From the trenches to today, the superbug war never ends

The world needs new, stronger antibiotics. We’re helping an Australian company make a powerful candidate commercially viable.

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Getting more carbon fibre in our industrial diet

We’re developing world leading carbon fibre to help create a new Australian industry, and spur technological breakthroughs.

This is heavy: Big K dumped

The kilogram has been redefined, changing from a physical object called the ‘Big K’ to a fundamental law of physics.

As the demand for battery technology increases so too does demand rise for the raw materials that go into them

Supercharging battery metals

With global demand for battery technology set to soar, Australia is well placed to deliver the raw materials and take advantage of a battery metal bonanza.