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Australia-US sign space technology treaty

Australia and the United States have signed off on a long-awaited space technology sharing agreement, giving American space companies the green light to conduct launches from Australian spaceports. The...

Policy makers put on notice for responsible AI

Any use of artificial intelligence by government must demonstrate integrity, competence, and empathy while delivering a clear improvement in public services, according to new long-term guidance released by Finance...

All-in-one digital identity credentials with Data Zoo

When Tony Fitzgibbon launched Data Zoo a decade ago, data had begun to transform the world. It was in 2006 that British mathematician Clive Humby declared that “data is...

Husic calls for more alignment of govt R&D programs

Industry and science minister Ed Husic has urged his federal colleagues to coordinate research and development programs more closely across portfolios to improve the effectiveness of delivering government industry...

Sicona, the Aussie battery innovator charging ahead

From a manufacturing plant 85km south of Sydney, a local startup is producing materials for the likes of Tesla, Panasonic and Samsung. Sicona Battery Technologies is commercialising a next-generation...

Innovation becomes fourth pillar of Aus-US alliance

Innovation has become the fourth pillar in Australia’s alliance with the United States, with the two nations announcing plans to work more closely on science and critical technologies. The...

Australia, US help finance Google’s new Pacific cable

The federal government will spend almost $80 million connecting smaller Pacific Island nations to a new trans-Pacific subsea cable to be be built by Google between Australia and the...

Turning laser leadership into fusion power

The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for a “method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses.” Today these ultra-high-power lasers (UHPLs) have demonstrated many revolutionary technologies that...

Aussie quantum training rolled out to US students

Australian quantum technology will be used to train students at TAFE and at American colleges after local firm Q-CTRL struck a deal with investors looking to take advantage of...

Next batch of economic accelerators revealed

Another $5.5 million has been awarded to 24 university research projects in the pilot phase of Australia’s $1.6 billion research commercialisation scheme. Most of the work relates to value-adding...

SA lays out plan for manufacturing revival

South Australia will look to turn around its manufacturing slide with a new decadal strategy that puts an emphasis on place-based innovation, value-adding and strategically important sectors like defence,...