“Businesses and governments often overestimate the impact of new technologies in three years and radically underestimate their impact over ten.” This was how Microsoft founder Bill Gates summed up...
Science
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Astrophysicist Matthew Bailes has taken out Australia’s top science prize for his part in the discovery of fast radio bursts – millisecond-duration radio flashes that can be used to...
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More than 890 billion plastic bottles are produced every year, and more than 80 percent of these are not recycled, ending up in landfill or the ocean. In total,...
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Everyday, governments and law enforcement agencies are using technology developed by an Adelaide company to trawl through countless online data and make potentially life-saving security assessments. Fivecast, based in...
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Screen Australia has announced support for the development of 39 video games through a fresh $2 million injection into independent projects, a funding package that includes support for games...
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The Food and AgriTech sector is a huge contributor to the Australian economy, already generating $20 billion in annual economic benefit – a figure that will only grow in the...
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Last week, quantum computers were added to Australia’s Defence and Strategic Goods List of controlled items facing export restrictions. That’s because quantum technologies – which may soon provide huge...
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The Queensland government unveiled the first ever whole-of-government science strategy in July, with an aim of positioning the state as a global science powerhouse. This is also the goal...
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Defence’s Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator is firing on all cylinders, according to its head Professor Emily Hilder, who says she is “surprised” by how much work her small team...
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Indigenous researchers are buoyed by the Albanese government’s landmark elevation of First Nations knowledge in national science priorities, but say action must match the aspiration to drive change. After...
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Australia has new national science and research priorities for the first time in nearly a decade after the Albanese government settled on net zero technologies, community health, indigenous knowledge...
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The Prime Minister’s top scientific advisers are backing a multi-faceted response to airborne infections with air quality interventions that can be tailored to specific buildings like hospitals or classrooms...
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A new working group will be convened by the federal Industry department to connect and promote Australia’s emerging RNA sector and make it a bigger part of a $158...
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There are many unanswered questions regarding the viability of the new era of state-led, taxpayer-funded green industrial policy that has become de rigueur in Australia and much of the...