70 years of scientific excellence has brought significant benefits to Australia
ANSTO is a unique national science organisation that began operating under its predecessor The Australian Atomic Energy Commission (AAEC) 70 years ago.
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Meet some of the women from the history of ANSTO who were pioneers in their time
The celebration of the UN’s International Women’s Day 2023 has a theme that highlights the power of innovative IT to combat discrimination and the marginalisation of women globally.
Physicist Accelerator Scientist
Dr Klaus Wilcken is an accelerator mass spectrometry scientist at the Centre for Accelerator Science (CAS) with over 12 years of experience with suite of AMS isotopes & techniques.
Take a fresh look at ANSTO
Nuclear technique supports industry-led action plan to phase out packaging with PFAS chemicals
Testing at ANSTO’s Centre for Accelerator Science supports an action plan just published by the Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation (APCO) to phase out per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in fibre-based food contact packaging in Australia by December 2023.
Environmental conference highlights the role isotopes have in better supporting our precious ecosystems
Radiocarbon dating reveals past fall in sea level linked to changes on the Great Barrier Reef
ANSTO helping to ensure the safety of astronauts in space
A team of ANSTO health researchers, staff at the Centre for Accelerator Science and Dr Melanie Ferlazzo, a postdoc from the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM), and scientists from the French Space Agency (CNES), are collaborating on investigations to determine the impact of secondary particles on human cells using the new microprobe beamline at ANSTO’s Centre for Accelerator Science.
Collaboration to jolt energy research forward
Strategic research partnership agreement with University of Queensland
High-energy heavy ion microprobe
The high-energy heavy-ion microprobe is used for the characterisation or modification of material properties at depths from approximately 1 micrometre to maximum depths of up to 500 micrometres from the material surface.
Two ANSTO scientists made an Officer of the Order of Australia
Earthquake clues unearthed in strange, precariously balanced rocks
Imperial College London researchers tapped into ancient geological data locked within precariously balanced rocks using a new technique to boost the precision of hazard estimates for large earthquakes.
ANSTO's neutrons will help miners see what's inside drill cores with new clarity
The mining industry is set to benefit from a new Australian capability that uses a nuclear scanning technique to detect the presence of precious metals and strategic minerals in a core sample.
Particle therapy update
ANSTO physicist will gain further experience in particle therapy technologies.
Additional funding for Chronic kidney disease research
ANSTO to receive a new grant to continue to fight chronic kidney disease killer in Sri Lanka.
nandin deep tech hothouse sees businesses bloom
Two startups supported by the nandin Innovation Centre at ANSTO have hit the ground running in 2021 securing major opportunities from state governments to see their businesses thrive.
Understanding landscape evolution in intra-plate areas
Insights into the formation of deep river canyons mountain ranges in intra-tectonic plate areas by SAAFE Scholarship recipient and collaborators.
Unusual state of matter in new material holds promise for transformative quantum technologies
ANSTO has provided supporting experimental evidence of a highly unusual quantum state, a quantum spin liquid (QSL), in a two-dimensional material.