Australian health care is moving towards using genomics for diagnosing and treating rare diseases and cancers. However, the majority of reference datasets currently available feature mostly European people’s genomes. This makes it harder for rare diseases and potentially dangerous genetic variations...

There’s no easy way to test the effect of an earthquake on a building or landscape. The amount of energy is so large and the structures are so complex that computational simulations are the only way to see what is really happening. Researchers from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) have...