Dr David Wilson from La Trobe University is using Raijin to design new drugs for diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer's. "We're looking at kinases – a group of proteins that are involved in the signalling pathways of a whole bunch of different diseases," explains Dr Wilson. "If we could stop these...

South west Western Australia is set to see more intense and frequent frosts. This article originally appeared in the 2014/15 NCI Annual Report New research suggests south western Australia will become even drier, with severe implications for the region's $4.5 billion agricultural industry. Professor...

Australia's Environment - A map of exposed soil around the country NCI's data and compute expertise have played an integral role in a recently launched website that provides easy access to a wide range of environmental data covering the entire country. The data, available on the Australia's...

Thursday 12 May 2016 A collaborative research project between the University of Sydney and the Californian Institute of Technology has solved a long standing geological mystery – just how the distinct bend in the Hawaiian-Emperor Seamount Chain came to be. Using NCI's Raijin supercomputer, the...

Wednesday 25 May 2016 A breakthrough by an Australian collaboration of researchers could make infra-red technology easy-to-use and cheap, potentially saving millions of dollars in defence and other areas using sensing devices, and boosting applications of technology to a host of new areas, such as...

Raijin is helping researchers to track variations in the Sun's activity over recent millennia. Dr Andrew Smith at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) has been making trips to Antarctica for almost two decades, bringing back ice cores for analysis. He is searching for...

Nanopillars such as these can produce light using electrons bouncing around inside them. See this paper for more information. Discoveries in nanotechnology are leading to new classes of optical devices, so-called optoelectronic devices, being developed. Translating electric signals into optical ones...

In a time where global positioning devices are cheap and plentiful, it's actually becoming harder than ever to define where exactly 'here' is. For example, global processes such as plate tectonics ensure that 'here' is never quite in the same place. As demand for centimetre precision increases, this...

ARC Future Fellow Professor Michelle Coote and her team from The Australian National University have used Raijin to double the efficiency of solar cells. In a dye-sensitised solar cell, the dye absorbs sunlight, causing the dye to change form and release an electron which generates electricity. A...