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Aussie high school student wins top prize at Intel’s ‘Olympics of science and engineering’

Oliver Nicholls cleans up at Intel's 'Olympics of science', the International Science and Engineering Fair, with his automated high-rise window cleaner.

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Pint of Science: Sometimes science is better over a beer

Bringing scientists to your local pub to present their latest discoveries and make you fall in love with science.

Six scientists you need to know (but have probably never heard of)

Newton, Einstein, Darwin: scientific superstars that you've certainly heard of. We'd like to introduce you to some equally impressive minds that only made it into the footnotes of history, despite their remarkable, life-changing, discoveries.

Where there’s smoke there’s fire: the invention of smoke detectors

Back in the 70s we helped develop early smoke detection alarms for telephone exchanges, data centres and industrial control rooms around the world.

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Ship to shore: Our Tassie Business Woman of the Year

Our Director of National Collections and Marine Infrastructure (NCMI), Toni Moate, is the Telstra Tasmanian Business Woman of the Year.

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Heroic teachers of our scientists’ past

We’re celebrating World Teachers’ Day – a day to acknowledge our teachers and say thanks for the significant contributions they make in our classrooms and communities.

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Time for innovation to reach beyond STEM and into culture

The results of the first year in the Male Champions of Change (MCC) STEM group have been released.

Ernie Dingo visits our outback astronomy observatory – in his beloved backyard

Wajarri Yamatji Elder and Australian TV personality Ernie Dingo stopped by to check out our Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder telescope.

National Science Week: STEM in Schools & Floating Classrooms

We're celebrating our favourite time of year, National Science Week, with STEM in Schools and floating classrooms.

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Nerds and Billionaires: Let scientists out of their boxes

Breaking down barriers between scientists and business will help us to take more great Australian science from benchtop to beta to buyer.

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Innovation: the key to unleashing Australia’s potential

Dr Larry Marshall discusses how we are taking Australian innovation to the world stage.

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Top honours for our top scientists

Three of our best and brightest have been elected to the Australian Academy of Science for their outstanding contributions to research and ground-breaking discoveries.

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