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Researchers have used Raijin to discover that nano-sized fragments of graphene can speed up the rate of chemical reactions. Assistant Professor Amir Karton from the University of Western Australia said the finding suggested graphene – sheets of pure carbon – might have potential applications in...

Professor Tiffany Walsh and her team at Deakin University have developed an application to use nanoparticles in laundry powder to achieve a hot wash outcome at a much lower water temperature. "Washing clothes at 90 degrees Celsius melts that really stubborn fat layer and lifts it off the surface of...

The brain is the most complex part of the human body. It's the chair of intelligence, interpreter of the senses, motivator of body movement, and controller of behaviour. Using the latest computing technology, researchers at ANU have been able to study this intricate organ. The research will help to...

ANU chemists have used Raijin to develop a revolutionary new way to manufacture a rare anti-inflammatory drug with potential to treat cancer and malaria. The breakthrough could lead to new and cheaper ways to produce rare drugs in large quantities. "We took small molecules and clipped them together...

Not much affects the nerves like the high-pitched squealing of car brakes. Fortunately, researchers are using NCI's computational facilities to help design quieter brakes – and save the car industry time and money. Car brakes squeal when some of the kinetic energy is transferred into sound instead...

Professor Kerry Hourigan's team at Monash University are using the NCI supercomputer to develop tools for early detection of heart attacks and strokes. "Cardiovascular disease is a major health problem and one of the biggest killers in Australia and worldwide," Professor Hourigan says. In the past...

NCI is helping researchers from UNSW to delve into the mysteries of fuel combustion to reduce emissions and improve fuel efficiency. "Almost 90% of Australia's total energy production relies on combustion," says Associate Professor Evatt Hawkes. "It is very important that we move towards renewables...

NCI will soon host more than 10 petabytes of research data. That's 10,000,000,000 megabytes of files. Hosting these datasets is not as simple as just copy and pasting the files onto a hard drive – they need to be thoroughly catalogued so they can be easily searched, downloaded and analysed. There's...

During the past couple of decades, Australia's weather forecasting ability has improved dramatically, thanks to advances in science and computational technology. Now the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) is collaborating with NCI to test and refine its next-generation weather forecasting models to provide...

One of the biggest goals in treating diabetes is to develop an orally active drug to eliminate the need to inject insulin. But in order to design a drug to mimic insulin, we first need to know exactly how it binds to its receptor. Dr Tristan Croll from Queensland University of Technology is using...