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 to go straight to the lab to test out various plausible materials, now they start by modelling their...

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 area between low and high tide on a beach. We have more than 15,000 square kilometres of intertidal...

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 instruments on board three different satellites – the MODIS, GRACE, and SMOS missions – can give you...

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 diseases. Correctly identifying the genetic cause of lupus in an individual is important when choosing...

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 is a popular code used in geology research, in particular Magnetotellurics (MT), the study of...

Decades of scientific measurements that once languished in desk drawers in offices around the country are now available at NCI through a concerted data rescue effort. The measurements in question are Magnetotelluric (MT): measurements of electric and magnetic fields deep within the earth’s crust...

Every day, satellites from the European Space Agency and European Meteorological Agency (EUMETSAT) circle the Earth, collecting images and observations from the planet below. Making the data available to a wide community of researchers, emergency services and government agencies in Australia...