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Suryashree Aniyan

Finding the invisible

Masters student Suryashree Aniyan spends her summer holiday hunting supermassive black holes.


jessica clarke csiro

The magic of an augmented map

Ever wanted to receive your weather information in a more realistic and up-to-date fashion? Computer sciences student Jessica Clarke has developed an iPad app that makes that dream an augmented reality.


Alan Cooper

Unravelling mammoth blood

Alan Cooper has spent his career using DNA to investigate the evolutionary mysteries that have left others puzzled, such as how mammoths survived in such frigid environments.


Jeremy Austin

Probing ancient DNA

Evolutionary biologist Jeremy Austin studies ancient DNA to answer the big questions.


bent weber

Down to the wire

The fabrication of the thinnest-ever conducting silicon wire is providing the next step towards the world's first quantum computer, thanks to PhD student Bent Weber.


Michael Biercuk

Sweating the (very) small stuff

The forces that interest experimental physicist Michael Biercuk are about a septillion times smaller than the weight of a feather.


Medical physicist Paul Keall

Hitting a moving target

Medical physicist Paul Keall has spent much of his career using medical imaging to chase tumours and improve the accuracy of radiation therapy.


To kill a cancer cell

To kill cells that rapidly divide, like those in cancerous tumours, James Matthews had to change the way he thought about biology.


Dave White

Secret life of the seabed

Geotechnical engineer Dave White investigates the often surprising behaviour of seabed sediments.


Georgina_Such

Engineering smarter drug delivery

In the drug delivery world, "The body is a very difficult thing to trick," says material scientist Georgina Such.


Jason Smith

Designer drugs for cancer

Medicinal chemist Jason Smith has removed cancer's invisibility cloak by identifying four drug candidates that may slow tumour growth.


Euan Harvey

Filming the ocean blue

How the marine biologist who can invent his own underwater video equipment is making a difference in the industry.


Tariq Ezaz

The Lizard Man

Tariq Ezaz is one of Australia's foremost experts on sex determination in dragon lizards, discovering that a combination of temperature and genes can determine gender.


kevin pfleger in the lab

Better drugs, fewer side effects

Kevin Pfleger spends his days disentangling the complicated web of signalling systems in our bodies to develop better, safer drugs with a cutting-edge technology, GPCR-HIT.


Paul Tregoning

Reading the Earth

If you want to know whether or not Antarctica is really melting and if ocean levels are rising, Paul Tregoning has the answers.