Australia could boost its GDP by $1 billion per annum by boosting its recycling capacities by 5%, according to a new CSIRO report. The major paper makes the economic and environmental case for an Australian ‘circular economy’ based on reducing waste and repurposing materials. Those findings come after legislation banning […]
Australia’s top science bodies have released their sixth State of the Climate report, which includes observations and modelling on the past, present and future of the country’s climate. Australia’s temperatures, extreme weather events frequency, rainfall amounts and intensity, sea temperatures and levels have all significantly changed in the past hundred […]
More than 600 Woolworths stores will stock plant-based mince and burgers from v2food. v2food was created together with the CSIRO and Jack Cowin’s Competitive Foods Australia – the group behind Hungry Jack’s. It comes after v2food launched in Drakes supermarkets in Queensland and South Australia. Visit Business Insider Australia’s homepage […]
The University of New South Wales (UNSW) is offering a world first undergraduate degree in quantum engineering. Students in the Bachelor of Quantum Engineering (Honours) will learn about advanced electronics and telecommunication engineering, specialising in ways to design and control quantum systems. UNSW Scientia Professor Andrea Morello told Business Insider […]
Scientists at the CSIRO have began testing two potential coronavirus vaccines. We created a list of Australian universities that are also creating vaccines and tests to address the coronavirus pandemic. These include Monash University, the University of Queensland, Flinders University and the University of Sydney. Visit Business Insider Australia’s homepage […]
Google Maps celebates its 15th anniversary this month, and it has its roots in Australia. In 2003, Danish-born brothers Jens and Lars Rasmussen cofounded a mapping company called Where 2 Technologies, which was later purchased by Google. The company went to Google with an idea for a scrollable and zoomable […]
Australian plant based meat startup v2food launched in Australia on Tuesday. The startup was created in partnership with the CSIRO and Hungry Jack’s founder Jack Cowin. The team is also building a $20 million plant to produce plant based meat. There’s a new plant-based meat alternative in town, backed by […]
Australian SaaS company Lumachain has raised $3.5 million in a funding round led by the CSIRO-linked venture capital investor Main Sequence. Lumachain’s founder Jamila Gordon previously held senior roles at Qantas and IBM after immigrating from her native Somalia in east Africa. The company is helping businesses in the food […]
Change is a constant in life. The march of progress, technology, society, and culture are constantly challenging us as people, and as a nation. This century the emergence of the iPhone, cloud computing, enhanced computer power, robotics, automation, energy storage systems, and many other technological advances seem to have accelerated […]
Australia will need to transform at all levels in order for the country to achieve its full potential, a new report from the CSIRO has found. The difference between reform and stagnation could mean as much as a $40,000 difference to Australian incomes by 2060. The report paints a vision […]
It’s not every day you see scientists backing product development by fast food giants. But Australia’s scientific research agency, the CSIRO, is doing exactly that, as it announces its venture capital arm is launching a company with the owner of iconic burger chain Hungry Jack’s. Investment manager Main Sequence Ventures, […]
Australia’s Parkes radio telescope in NSW is now tracking Voyager 2 as it enters interstellar space. The spacecraft, after its twin Voyager 1, is only the second to reach the space between the stars. The CSIRO is working with NASA. Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, is supporting NASA’s Voyager 2 […]
Major car companies such as Toyota, Hyundai, Mercedes and BMW are betting on the potential of hydrogen fuel cells as a future sustainable energy alternative to oil. But the biggest problem holding back the technology is its transport and storage. The CSIRO has developed membrane technology that makes it easy […]
Over at NASA this past week: The new promotional video is responsible for a lot of excitement, especially with talk of “returning to the Moon – to stay”. Things aren’t quite as exciting here in Australia, yet. But there is definitely movement at the station in just the five months […]
A new type of smart money powered by blockchain has been successfully trialled by CSIRO’s Data61 and the Commonwealth Bank. This type of programmable money can be used to help manage insurance payouts, budgeting and the management of trusts and charities. The technology was tested using an app with the […]
Emesent, a drone autonomy spin-off from CSIRO, just raised $3.5 million in venture capital. The money will be used to commercialise Hovermap, a technology used to explore dangerous areas underground. The data gathered by the drone improves a mine’s productivity. Emesent, a spin-off of Australia’s government-funded science department the CSIRO, […]
The CSIRO’s ON Innovation Program is currently assessing applications for its latest accelerator program. There’s a spike health-related startups coming out of scientific research in Australia. One startup is called Noisy Guts which uses an acoustic belt to diagnose stomach disorders. David Burt, with a background in management consulting and […]
