Research Highlights

THE CHALLENGE: How do stars form? In clouds of gas millions of kilometres across, over millions of years, how do stars form? We know that gravity and electromagnetism and chemistry, pulling together

THE CHALLENGE: We see so much of the world around us at the large scale, but never really think about the complexity taking place at the atomic level. So it is, for example, with bone formation. A

NCI supports the research community through our code optimisation expertise, modifying the code of popular software to enable more efficient running at the large scales of our supercomputer. ModEM3D

Auto-immune diseases, such as lupus, are frequently genetically complex and can be caused by different mutations in many different genes, making it hard to identify the pathway that leads to these

Satellite data is central to so much of modern life, including much of our environmental monitoring programs. From satellites, you can get data about vegetation, water and so much more. In fact, the

Universe’s Wayback machine Astronomers have discovered a star on the other side of the Milky Way that helps provide answers about the very first stars in the Universe. Located 35,000 lights years from

As a nation that has a strong connection to the ocean, we actually don’t know all that much about its structure. In particular, there are big gaps in our understanding about the intertidal zone – the

Materials scientists working at the cutting-edge of chemistry and physics need to drill down to the atomic level to properly understand the compounds they are dealing with. Materials scientists used

If we want to understand how devastating storms form and evolve, and how a changing climate might affect them, we need to go beyond the measurements that come from weather stations and sensors in

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