A team from the University of Sydney has used the NCI supercomputer to develop a wound repair material that helps speed up healing. The team, led by Professor Tony Weiss, McCaughey Chair in Biochemistry in the School of Life and Environmental Sciences and Charles Perkins Centre at the University of...

NCI Australia user Dr Jenny Fisher is continuing to learn about chemical transport in the atmosphere using advanced models running on NCI's supercomputer. Following on from her earlier investigations into carbon monoxide transport, she is now trying to understand the fundamentals of nitrogen sources...

One hundred million years or so ago in present-day Burma, a random assortment of insects, flowers, reptiles and even tiny dinosaurs became trapped in the oozing resin of trees in an ancient forest. That resin eventually turned into amber, a solid, translucent material that has protected and...

The Bureau of Meteorology is in the process of producing a reanalysis that allows us to look back at Australia's weather for the past three decades. Built using Australia's national weather forecast model (Australian Community Climate and Earth-System Simulator, ACCESS), this dataset will give...

Gas mask technology has existed for over a century yet the way they work has not changed very much. Originally, the filters used activated charcoal to adsorb – to chemically attract impurities to the surface of the filter material – and hence filter the air. In 2017, the Department of Defence called...

The complex task of developing future materials, built on the stable crystal forms of new molecules with outstanding properties, relies on the speed and power only available through supercomputing. By using highly specialised codes, researchers can get supercomputers to tackle this challenge...

In fundamental physics, theory and experiment go hand-in-hand. Without theoretical modelling, it's hard to come up with new ideas and move things forward. Experimental validation of theoretical predictions brings it all together. Nowadays, combining the power of supercomputer calculations with the...

If you look at the sun through a sheet of paper, you can see the light shining through. Now imagine you take that sheet of paper and shave it into 720 separate layers, each 90 nanometres thick. Holding one of those up to the sun will do so little to block the light you may as well not be holding...