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Energy

Hyper for hydrogen: our world first for carbon-free fuel

For the first time in the world, a hydrogen car has been powered by a fuel derived from ammonia, thanks to our hydrogen membrane tech. And now that tech is being commericalised to help bring a hydrogen industry closer to reality.

Farming
Tech

Wearables for wandering livestock

New wearable technology could revolutionize the way Australian farmers care for livestock.

Manufacturing

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.

Nursing Grey Nurse Shark populations back to health

Grey Nurse Sharks are critically endangered in parts of Australia. Our research is helping to assist the conservation management of the species.

Explainer: how the Antarctic Circumpolar Current helps keep Antarctica frozen

The Antarctic Circumpolar Current, or ACC, is the strongest ocean current on our planet and is vital for Earth’s health because it keeps Antarctica cool and frozen.

Environment

Real hot city? Our science has the Dar-winning solution

Darwin residents will be working with our scientists as we help develop sustainable cities of the future.

Environment

Great balls of spitfires

You might remember spitfires from your childhood but what are they and are they dangerous?

Farming

Global strategies needed to combat antibiotic and pesticide resistance

Resistance to antibiotics and pesticides is rising at alarming rates. Global strategies, such as those developed for Australia’s cotton industry, to maintain ‘susceptible’ insects, are key in our fight against resistance.

Environment

Loose genes and haunted ecosystems: meet eDNA, environmental saviour

'Environmental DNA' tells the story of an ecosystem, the genetic signatures of plants, animals, fungi, microbes in a milieu that can be ‘snooped on’ by researchers to detect exotic species and contaminated waterways, and inform palaeoecology and marine conservation.

Other news

Behind the book: scientists telling stories for kids

Armed with tales of walking on water, smelling fingerprints and surviving against the odds, meet the scientists who are writing children’s books.

Environment

10 things you need to know about collections

First compiled by explorers and natural historians, now ecologists and other researchers, collections are catalogues for the phenomenal diversity of life on Earth, which—in a world of receding ecosystems—are only growing more important as records and reservoirs of understanding.

Keeping devi-ANTS away from Lord Howe Island

We’ve eradicated an exotic invasive ant species off a world heritage listed island.