New materials never seen in Nature are starting to pour in their thousands from laboratories worldwide to build the electronic, medical and communication devices, the paints, plastics, catalysts and cosmetics of the future. With over 800 products already on the market globally, the nano-revolution...

So that the internet and modern telecommunications may go a hundred or a thousand times faster, light itself must be slowed and made to perform all sorts of tricks it is not naturally inclined to. With the aid of the NCI supercomputer researchers from CUDOS, the ARC Centre of Excellence for...

The vast apparatus that powers Australia's climate is being explored in unprecedented depth and detail, as scientists probe the drivers of drought, flood and climate variability, using the nation's most powerful supercomputer to decipher how our world is changing. Professor Matthew England...

Red giant stars up to eight times the mass of our Sun are the birthing suites of nearly half of all the elements in the universe heavier than iron. In their death and dissolution they yield many of the things which make human life worthwhile and pleasurable – but the process by which metals...

Scientists and science bodies using NCI are able to see how their datasets are being used thanks to a new service, the Research Data Switchboard (RD-Switchboard). Based on data collections funded by the Research Data Service, RD-Switchboard is an open and collaborative software solution initiated by...

The Australian Community Climate and Earth System Simulator (ACCESS) is Australia's national weather forecasting and climate prediction system, providing world-class modelling infrastructure to the Bureau of Meteorology, CSIRO, two ARC Centres of Excellence and other University researchers around...

The Australian Geoscience Data Cube (AGDC) is a novel collaborative approach from Geoscience Australia, CSIRO and NCI for generating vast volumes of satellite earth observation and other geospatial datasets at the continental scale. Soon to be replaced by the Australian Government-supported Digital...

Scientific data these days comes from a large number of geospatial instruments: from satellites, ground based radar and seismic sensors, just to name a few. The question today is how can we more easily do data-intensive research across the many kinds of extremely large and complex datasets that come...

Monitoring a forest plantation used to present a significant challenge, requiring spending hundreds of hours measuring tree heights and locations out in the field. Now, the development of new methods of near surface remote sensing is making it easier than ever to measure and map forests in three...

Every few years, tragedies on coastlines around the world remind us of the risk that we face from tsunamis. The 2011 Tōhoku Earthquake and Tsunami demonstrated just how vulnerable we are, and that research is required to better understand the risks we face. With help from the National Computational...