International research led by geologists from Curtin University has found that a volcanic province in the Indian Ocean was the world’s most continuously active — erupting for 30 million years
By April Kleer | Research Featured; Physical sciences and mathematics; Science and Engineering
Professor Morten Allentoft analyses ancient DNA to piece together human evolution and influence on the natural world. The genetic sleuth is set to be the new Head of Curtin’s TrEnD lab.
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New international research into the Moon provides scientists with insights as to how and why its crust is magnetised, essentially ‘debunking’ one of the previous longstanding theories.
By April Kleer | Feature; Research; Research Featured; Science and technology; Physical sciences and mathematics; Science and Engineering
Curtin University research has developed a new and easier on-site method to immediately and accurately detect and measure levels of PFAS
By April Kleer | Research Featured; Agriculture, environment and sustainability; Physical sciences and mathematics; Science and Engineering
A radio telescope in outback Western Australia has completed the deepest and broadest search at low frequencies for alien technologies
By Pete Wheeler, ICRAR | Research Featured; Physical sciences and mathematics; Science and Engineering
Curtin University researchers have discovered two meteorites in a two week period on the Nullarbor Plain – one freshly fallen and the other from November 2019.
By April Kleer and Lauren Sydoruk | Research; Research Featured; Physical sciences and mathematics; Science and Engineering
Curtin University researchers have uncovered more information about the numbers and habits of killer whales in south Western Australian waters
By April Kleer | Research; Research Featured; Agriculture, environment and sustainability; Physical sciences and mathematics
Following seven years of design and prototyping work, ICRAR-Curtin has completed its preparations for the construction of of the SKA in WA, which will begin next year.
By Pete Wheeler, ICRAR | Feature; Research; Research Featured; Engineering and mining; Physical sciences and mathematics; Science and Engineering
Research from Curtin University has found that pre-historic climate change does not explain the extinction of megafauna in North America at the end of the last Ice Age.
By April Kleer | Research Featured; Agriculture, environment and sustainability; Physical sciences and mathematics; Science and Engineering
Astronomers have used mysterious fast radio bursts to solve a decades-old mystery of ‘missing matter’, long predicted to exist in the Universe but never detected—until now.
By Kirsten Gottschalk, ICRAR | Research; Research Featured; Physical sciences and mathematics; Science and EngineeringCRICOS Provider Code: WA 00301J
