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Crikey! Croc blood is worth bottling! |
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Turning on the replacement research reactor |
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The most advanced research reactor in the southern hemisphere is being built and will commence commissioning in the middle of next year.
When ANSTO's first research reactor HIFAR started up in the 1950s, the staff were said to be laying bets on precisely when it would 'go critical'. That is, when the reaction in the core would become self-sustaining...
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Sandy super sieve |
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Could a natural process be harnessed to clean up pollution?
What Dr Ian Grey of CSIRO Minerals doesn't know about a mineral sand called ilmenite could be written in large print on a postage stamp. His work has resulted in ten patents, a Clunies Ross award, and an idea: could weathered ilmenite be used to remove pollutants from liquid waste? . . . |
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Scientist's life-saving sabre |
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A revolutionary Australian invention alerts snow-lovers to the hidden dangers beneath their skis.
Being lowered from a helicopter onto a mountain peak to ski back country wilds sounds dangerous enough without going around deliberately triggering avalanches, but that's exactly the kind of thing ANSTO scientist Dr Warwick Payten gets up to in his spare time...
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As easy as α β γ |
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Exciting new radiopharmaceuticals are on the way for detecting and treating cancers
Since the 1940s doctors have been using radioisotopes of iodine to see whether a patient's thyroid gland is working and to treat cancers in that organ. This exploits a natural process where the thyroid takes iodine, radioactive or otherwise, from the blood and uses it to make hormones...
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Snakes have hot lips: who wants a kiss? |
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