Treasurer Jim Chalmers has been urged by the International Monetary Fund to focus on lifting research and development expenditure and leverage technologies like artificial intelligence to drive innovation and...
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Science minister Tim Ayres and the CSIRO will be asked to explain hundreds of redundancies at the science agency when Parliament returns next week, as the research sector rallies...
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Data centre billionaire Robin Khuda on Thursday urged business, government and academia to unite to draw more women into STEM careers, as he launched the next stage of a...
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Australia has tumbled out of the top 20 most digitally competitive nations for the first time after a lack of AI policy and complacent companies dragged on global rankings...
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A decision to sit in on a quantum physics class 20 years ago planted the seed of what became Australia’s first quantum technology firm and earned founder Dr Vikram...
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Breakthrough electrolysis technology that could clear a century old clean hydrogen hurdle has been recognised with a prestigious Prime Minister’s Prize for Science. University of Adelaide Professor Yao Zheng, whose...
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The Digital Transformation Agency has nearly doubled the reported cost of its previous whole-of-government cloud contract with Amazon Web Services months after it ended and was replaced with a...
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Major Australian science groups are warning the government’s generational review of research and development is overlooking discovery work, threatening Australia’s “wellspring of innovation”. The Australian Academy of Science on...
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Scientists have sounded the alarm that a generational review of Australia’s research and development system is off course and could plant the seeds of another blue sky funding crunch....
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An Australian developed filtration system for mining waste could be key to recovering more than $5 trillion worth of critical resources like copper and lithium trapped in wastewater around...
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Alphabet-owned Google on Monday said it would be “extremely difficult” for Australia to enforce a law prohibiting people younger than 16 from using social media, warning that the government’s...
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Some of the world’s biggest investors are looking beyond a boom in artificial intelligence to longer-term spending by governments tackling geopolitical, technological and demographic pressures set to reshape markets over...
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China’s new visa program aimed at attracting foreign tech talent kicks off this week, a move seen as boosting Beijing’s fortunes in its geopolitical rivalry with Washington as a...
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An estimated 40 percent of the population is suffering from poor gut health, and many have not been diagnosed with a condition — partly due to the current diagnostic...