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Murdoch University researchers collected coral spawn at Ningaloo Reef after an early marine heatwave, aiming to bank resilient genotypes before summer bleaching risk returns.
Geoscience Tasmania logged scandium anomalies along the Renison tin belt, feeding Defence discussions on specialty metals for aerospace alloys.
UNSW and UtmoLight certified a 23.5 percent stabilised efficiency on a 676 square centimetre perovskite submodule, beating the prior large-area record.
CSIRO is accelerating work on carbon-capture materials that can bind industrial CO₂ to mine brines, part of a broader push to commercialise hard-to-abate emissions technology for Australian industry.
CSIRO’s National Bushfire Intelligence Capability published Terrain Release 2.0, merging LiDAR and satellite elevation data to improve fire-behaviour modelling in dense forests where canopy errors once skewed risk maps.
UNSW Sydney and UtmoLight certified a 23.5 percent stabilised efficiency on a 676-square-centimetre perovskite submodule, beating the prior large-area record by 0.6 points.
CSIRO scientists identified a distinct Hendra virus genotype in a Rockhampton pony, raising questions about flying-fox spillover routes in central Queensland.
CSIRO scientists identified a divergent Hendra virus genotype in a Rockhampton pony paddock sample, widening surveillance after HeV-g2 spillovers in southern states.
Melbourne’s Florey Institute and Monash University built rice-grain-sized organoids that show myelin damage and repair in multiple sclerosis, offering a screen for remyelination drugs in near real time.
Researchers lowered hydrophones along the Great Barrier Reef to capture coral spawning snaps and fish choruses during the annual breeding window.
A magnitude-4.8 quake at 10-kilometre depth shook South Gippsland just after 2 a.m., drawing nearly 15,000 felt reports before a smaller aftershock followed.
A CSIRO-led review finds constructed floating wetlands can strip nitrogen from stormwater for as little as $15 per kilogram in some Australian pilots.
Biosecurity officers confirmed Monosporascus cannonballus on a Katherine melon farm, the first Australian detection of the root-rot pathogen that can wipe out cucurbit crops within a season.
The first Saildrone Explorer left CSIRO Hobart on a five-year COCO2 mission to measure Southern Ocean carbon uptake, with three more uncrewed vessels to follow each quarter.
CSIRO astronomers logged a millisecond pulsar glitch during a magnetar outburst using the Parkes Murriyang dish, tightening models of neutron-star crust coupling.
AFAC’s spring bushfire outlook flags heavy grass fuels in the Top End and Gippsland as El Niño warmth builds, even as national dam levels remain relatively high.
A Climate Impact Lab mortality estimate cited in ABC reporting puts about 260 additional heat-related deaths on Australia’s summer ledger if a super El Niño develops. The number is a projection, not a body count — and its usefulness depends on how clearly the methods, baselines and uncertainties are stated.
A Garvan-led Nature Communications cohort used long-read nanopore sequencing to diagnose more than a third of previously unsolved inherited muscle disease cases in 53 Australians, with NSW Health Pathology rollout flagged for about two years.
Macquarie-led fieldwork in Royal National Park finds heavier chytrid loads in leaf-green tree frogs downstream of Metropolitan Mine wastewater, while Peabody says any causal link in the Journal of Hazardous Materials Advances paper remains speculative.
The Bureau of Meteorology issued dry lightning warnings across the Murray–Darling Basin as an El Niño watch persisted, with fire agencies pre-positioning crews along the Darling River corridor where grass fuels cured early.
CSIRO and the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority released aerial survey maps showing central Great Barrier Reef bleaching hotspots building before summer, with heat stress concentrated on mid-shelf reefs that escaped the worst of last year’s southern pulse.
Macquarie University opened its Brain Institute and Clinic on Monday, collocating MND and Parkinson’s trials with MQ Health neurology services at its Sydney campus hospital precinct.