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Over the next week, ANSTO will be joining the festivities of National Science Week with an exciting lineup of activities that celebrate science and technology

TSPO expression in the hippocampal region of a mouse brain

Understanding the biological response to radiation

Research is undertaken to characterise and optimise the beneficial impacts of radiation on living matter

Neutron beam time allocations announced

Second half of 2018

Tyree Foundation Scholarships - Priority Focus Areas

Sir William Tyree Nuclear Scholarships - Priority Focus Areas

Using elemental data to combat illegal wildlife trade

This resource guides students through how to interpret and analyse authentic research data, generated during a collaborative project between UNSW, UTS, ANSTO and Taronga Zoo Sydney. The project examines the use of high-resolution x-ray fluorescence as a tool to combat the international illegal wildlife trade (IWT) of short beaked echidnas, which are being removed from the wild and claimed as captive-bred.

Students will:

- examine the adaptations of short beaked echidnas that increase their ability to survive in their environment
- explore the use of technology in contributing to the study and conservation of biodiversity
- construct simple graphs of the provided data using MS Excel, and interpret and analyse these graphs
- investigate how scientific knowledge interacts with social, economic, cultural and ethical issues.

Beam time allocations

Scientific merit of applications for beamtime assessed.

Governor-General visits ANSTO

His Excellency General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia and Her Excellency Mrs Linda Hurley visited ANSTO’s Innovation Centre nandin and several facilities including the OPAL multipurpose reactor this week for a tour after learning of the ANSTO-nandin win in the NASA SpaceApps COVID 19 Challenge.

The translocator protein in response to cannabinoids

Improving the production of piezoelectric materials for naval sonar systems

Thales Australia, a key supplier to the Australian Defence Forces, provided an industrial challenge to National Graduate Innovation Forum participants relating to the production of piezoelectric ceramic components used in naval sonar arrays and systems.

Landscape reconstruction

Research to assess the impact of recent landscape change by measuring fundamental geomorphic processes that are the result of long-term landscape evolution.

Work from OPAL and NDF featured in Chemical Science

'Towering' engineering victory

Building a stable tower out of paper and designing a bionic limb were among the challenges of the Discover Engineering day, held on 11 May at ANSTO.

Shining a light on brain cancer

Micro radiation therapy being developed by UOW in association with the Australian Synchrotron.

Superconductivity ARC Linkage Grant Success

Nanostructure engineered low activation superconductors for fusion energy research.

Distinguishing black carbon sources

MABI instrument can determine both the concentration and source of black carbon pollution in the atmosphere.

Clean water hackathon delivers potential solutions

Sri Lankan students took part in an innovative hackathon to develop novel solutions to a wastewater runoff problem from reverse osmosis water treatment plants.

Revealing the 'hidden half' of grain using imaging at ANSTO's Australian Synchrotron to benefit Australian agriculture

Professor of Soil Science at The University of Queensland, Peter Kopittke and partner investigator Prof Enzo Lombi of the University of SA are very optimistic about the use of a new synchrotron-based imaging technique that captures in 3D the complex interaction of soil and root.