Research Highlights

NCI supercomputing resources and bioinformatics expertise have improved our understanding of the differences between mild/moderate and severe COVID-19, helping to unravel how severe disease develops

Radiation physicists from The University of Wollongong’s Centre For Medical Radiation Physics (CMRP) are using the power of NCI’s Gadi supercomputer to help keep astronauts safe and prepare for the

This research highlight was originally published in NCI's 2021-2022 Annual Report. In recent years, Australians are all too familiar with the significant impacts and damage that extreme rainfall can

This research highlight was originally published in NCI's 2021-2022 Annual Report. Scientists are developing increasingly realistic models to better understand what is driving the melting of ice in

This research highlight was originally published in NCI's 2021-2022 Annual Report. Organic semiconductors are new materials generating significant excitement among researchers and industry. They are

This research highlight was originally published in NCI's 2021-2022 Annual Report. Researchers from CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, are using NCI’s Nirin cloud computer to enhance the

Ocean and sea-ice models are a key element of Australia’s most widely used weather and climate prediction software suite, ACCESS (the Australian Community Climate and Earth System Simulator)

This research highlight was originally published in NCI's 2020-2021 Annual Report. Every item and process in our lives is made up of technologies, discoveries and inventions that have been combined

Evolution by natural selection is one of the central pillars of biology, explaining the amazing biodiversity observed on Earth and how species change over time. One of the aspects of evolutio n

NCI hosts the globally recognised SkyMapper data collection, a unique set of images of the Southern Sky, recently used to discover the fastest growing black hole in the last 9 billion years of cosmic