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Please join us in congratulating Dehong Yu, who has been awarded a three-year guest professorship at Shandong University, in Jinan, China.
Learn More...Today our nuclear regulator, ARPANSA, gave approval to commence neutron beam testing of DINGO, our new neutron radiography/tomography/imaging station. DINGO is the tenth user instrument to be completed at the OPAL Research Reactor.
Learn More...ANSTO and Monash University have announced start-up funding for seven research projects that will bring together some of the nation’s brightest minds and best scientific infrastructure.
Learn More...The public are invited to a free lecture by Nobel Prize winner, Peter Doherty at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) on Thursday 15 August.
Learn More...A number of significant staff changes have recently occurred in the Institute: most significantly, Dr. Helen Maynard-Casely joins us from the Australian Synchrotron in Melbourne.
Learn More...Woolooware High School emerged victorious in the local Science and Engineering Challenge, held on Tuesday at ANSTO.
Learn More...Innovation Minister Senator Kim Carr today opened a new $25 million Imaging and Medical Beamline (IMBL) which will enable live imaging at incredibly high-resolution inside the human body and facilitate exciting new research, diagnostics and treatments.
Learn More...Australian scientists today celebrated the publishing of the 1000th science paper as a result of research partnerships with the Australian Synchrotron, located in Clayton, Melbourne.
Learn More...Today, the first Laue diffraction image was taken on our JOEY Laue crystal-alignment station, from a single crystal of CeVO3.
Learn More...OPAL’s cold neutron source successfully returned to operation yesterday. With respect to the user program using cold neutrons, we will now operate in "friendly-user" mode for quite some time on our QUOKKA and PLATYPUS instruments.
Learn More...An historic metal plate that is one of Australia’s oldest records of European contact has been analysed at the Australian Synchrotron to help ensure its preservation for future generations.
Learn More...Australia is well represented at this week's International Conference on Neutron Scattering in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Learn More...Twentieth century views of microbiology are primitive and need to be junked, according to the Garvan Institute’s Professor John Mattick who spoke at a recent science lecture at ANSTO.
Learn More...Over 100 of Australia’s brightest Year-12 students visited ANSTO recently as part of the National Youth Science Forum (NYSF) aimed at sparking interest in a career in the sciences.
Learn More...They are apex predators with almost no equal, but growing global populations and unsustainable fishing practices are threatening the diversity of Bull and Pig-eye sharks in tropical ecosystems.
Learn More...ANSTO has secured the rights to host the 2014 International Workshop on Polarised Neutrons in Condensed Matter Investigations, in Sydney, between 15th and 18th September 2014.
Learn More...The home of Australia’s nuclear science and technical expertise opened its doors this week to inspire the next generation of scientists from across Australia and New Zealand.
Learn More...Today, OPAL's cold neutron source was warmed up, as a preventive measure, in order to investigate some issues with its cryogenic system.
Learn More...OPAL’s cold neutron source returned to operation on Thursday 27th June, and the reactor itself resumed full-power operations after a short routine shutdown yesterday.
Learn More...Physicist Dr Andrew Smith's studies of ice cores are helping build a better understanding of climate change. He spoke about his work in Greenland to students from Caringbah High School in the Sutherland Shire.
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