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- Thursday 29th March 2012
17th Century Dutch explorers help the Atlas reach a major milestone — 30 million records!
[more information] The Atlas of Living Australia added its 30 millionth species occurrence record last week, making it the largest collection of…
- Thursday 24th November 2011
Australia signs up to newly formed SKA organisation
[more information] Australia and New Zealand’s bid to host the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope took a step forward today with the…
- Friday 4th November 2011
Auditing the Earth's sea-level and energy budgets
[more information] An international research team has balanced the sea-level rise budget by showing that the total amount of contributions to sea…
- Tuesday 18th October 2011
New ERC grants taking projects from research table to market
[more information] A series of European Research Council (ERC) ‘top up’ grants worth up to EUR 150,000 each have been awarded to 30 leading…
- Monday 5th September 2011
Scientists create map of corals and their stress factors
[more information] An international team of scientists has succeeded in creating a map of the planet’s corals and their stress factors. Presented…
- Sunday 7th February 2010
Developing a worldwide league table
[more information] The European Union plans to publish a worldwide ranking of universities next year that it hopes will rival existing global…
- Wednesday 15th October 2008
European companies outpace American counterparts in R&D investment growth for the first time in five years
[more information] R&D investment by EU companies has increased by 8.8% compared to the increased R&D investment by US companies of 8.6%,…
- Sunday 21st October 2007
World Solar Challenge 2007 started
[more information] Darwin (Australia) — 41 solar cars on their way competing in the World Solar Challenge 2007 in Australia. The race, started on…
- Monday 8th October 2007
e-VLBI world first to view the southern hemisphere sky
[more information] Extensive collaboration between AARNet, CSIRO and European scientists culminates in three lightpaths from Australia to Europe .
- Wednesday 5th September 2007
Networks create “instant world telescope”
[more information] For the first time, a CSIRO radio telescope has been linked to others in China and Europe in real-time, demonstrating the power…
- Thursday 24th May 2007
Research gives boost to hunt for malaria vaccine
[more information] An international team of researchers has created a mouse which accurately mimics the human immune response to malarial…
- Tuesday 22nd May 2007
European research determines Australia’s carbon monoxide worries are South American imports
[more information] Thanks to a European research project of literally global proportions, scientists have been able to determine that much of the…
- Friday 24th November 2006
Keeping up S&T ties with Europe
[more information] In addition to debating politics and showcasing some of Europe’s state of the art technology, the IST2006 event, held in…
- Wednesday 30th August 2006
Educating engineers for ITER
[more information] As preparations get underway to build ITER, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, a group of European nuclear…
- Wednesday 2nd August 2006
Netherlands-Australia student exchange
[more information] The Minister for Education, Science and Training, the Hon Julie Bishop MP, and the Dutch Minister for Education, Culture and…
- Wednesday 24th May 2006
Raising R&D spending to 3% of GDP will boost EU GDP by up to 10%, says Potočnik
[more information] EU Commissioner for Science and Research, Janez Potocnik, has said that should the EU increase its investment in research to 3%…
- Wednesday 10th May 2006
Links with the Netherlands boosted through new student exchanges
[more information] The Minister for Education, Science and Training, the Hon Julie Bishop MP, and the Dutch Minister for Education, Culture and…
- Friday 7th April 2006
Eleven-nation line-up for European Inventor of the Year awards
[more information] An international jury chaired by former Dutch Prime Minister Wim Kok has nominated inventors from eleven nations for the title…
- Thursday 23rd March 2006
Dutch, Danish and French enterprises win European Information Society Technology Grand Prize 2006
[more information] A computer memory that can survive radiation and temperatures up to 200°C, a security system that recognizes your face, and a…
- Wednesday 22nd February 2006
EU project investigates link between chemical exposure and childhood cancer
[more information] Partners from 25 institutions in 16 EU Member States are to investigate how exposure to chemicals in food and the environment…
- Wednesday 1st February 2006
Adelaide institutions win contract from $231 billion fund
[more information] The University of Adelaide has been awarded a major contract by one of the world’s biggest pension funds to design a new stock…