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Researchers from the University of Technology Sydney are investigating the properties of a wide variety of 2-dimensional materials. These materials, made of one atom thick sheets, have radically different properties to their more common bulk counterparts. Professor Mike Ford is trying to understand...

NCI is supporting world-leading researchers at The Australian National University in their efforts to use seismology to learn more about the centre of Earth. Lead researcher Associate Professor Hrvoje Tkalčić recently published the world's first book about the mysterious inner core – The Earth's...

The Australian environment has been central to life here for millennia, and understanding the changes going on around us remains central to our food, tourism and health. New satellite data sources now let us see the things going on in our environment in incredible detail. Environmental activities...

Researchers from the University of Queensland are using the National Computational Infrastructure to study the behaviour of biomolecules such as proteins and cell membranes with atomic precision. Of particular interest is the way these biomolecules interact. Understanding the way that proteins and...

Patients with auto-immune diseases will be receiving more personalised treatments thanks to the work of scientists sequencing the human genome to look for uncommon variations. "Auto-immune diseases are diseases like lupus, type 1 diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis, and we are more and more convinced...

Professor Csaba Balazs from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Terascale (CoEPP) is using the NCI supercomputer to advance our knowledge of dark matter particles. Dark matter is a previously unknown kind of fundamental matter that makes up around 25 percent of the universe but...

Researchers from Monash University are simulating turbulent fluid flows, which affect airplane aerodynamics and design. The research uses direct numerical simulations (DNS) of turbulent flows to understand more about what is happening in the thin layer of air or water close to a solid surface, known...

Global not-for-profit water and maritime engineering organisation DHI is using NCI to model currents and waves to understand the risks of ships coming aground on the Australian coast. Working with the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA), DHI is trying to help them understand where the risk...

Scientists have discovered a way to solve a problem that has baffled humans for so long it is mentioned in the Bible: achieving the most efficient packing of objects such as grains and pharmaceutical drugs. Lead researcher Dr Mohammad Saadatfar from The Australian National University (ANU) said the...