The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013 was has been awarded jointly to Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel "for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems". Computational chemistry is solving large scale issues of national importance. Take a look at a handful of the
Geoscience Australia is testing a new system for analysing and visualising massive datasets linked to stacks of 'time slice' Landsat images. Since 2005 the key objective of the National Earth Observation Group at Geoscience Australia has been to maximise the value and impact of the Earth
Dear NCI Users, NCI is in the process of migrating the massdata (mdss) filesystem to new storage infrastructure. The new hardware will grow the disk cache and future expansion capability, improving overall performance and filesystem capacity. While the migration is performed, massdata will be
Professor Jill Gready. Photo by Karen Edwards. Far from being an ancient food making a boutique comeback, Professor Jill Gready of The John Curtin School of Medical Research thinks quinoa and other traditional crops could be the key to the looming food security crisis. "Food just isn't on the public
MolSim Downunder is a one-week-long workshop providing a thorough grounding in computational chemistry methods. Courses are taught by international speakers and local experts, integrating oral lectures and practical sessions. Topics of this edition will cover the fundaments of molecular dynamics and
A new portrait photography exhibition capturing the faces of 100 Australian scientists has opened in Canberra taking a contemporary snapshot of Canberra scientists who have made significant contributions to research in science, medicine and health. The Faces of Science exhibition features the work
NCI is pleased to announce increased support for climate change and earth system science research, benefiting both the Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, and the major agency partners of NCI, namely BoM and CSIRO. Through significant external funding initiatives involving a formal