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Fight against the fungus: Understanding the relationship between fungal pathogens and plant infection.

By Georgia Barrington-Smith & Dr Rebecca Duncan Ensuring our ongoing food availability in the face of a rising global population is a critical challenge. Infectious plant diseases pose a significant threat to our agricultural food production, costing the global economy around $220 billion USD each year. One particularly destructive disease is ‘blast disease’, which targets […]

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Will the rivers run dry?

Understanding how decreasing rainfall is impacting river regions in South-Western Australia. By Georgia Barrington-Smith & Dr Rebecca Duncan Global rainfall patterns are changing, leading to dryer conditions in numerous biodiversity hotspots. Rivers in the Southern Hemisphere are particularly sensitive to these climate-induced changes. To mitigate biodiversity loss and manage our precious water resources, we need

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What a year it has been!

AINSE 2024 Year in Review AINSE is delighted to celebrate another exciting year filled with successful student events and high-quality research being carried out by our wonderful scholars. As the year draws to a close, the staff at AINSE would like to take this opportunity to reflect upon some of these achievements in more detail.

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Cosmic clocks in Antarctic rocks: Forecasting future sea-levels by understanding the response of Byrd Glacier, East Antarctica, to climate change.

By Georgia Barrington-Smith & Dr Rebecca Duncan The Antarctic ice sheet holds 61% of all the fresh water on Earth. How this ice sheet is responding to climate warming remains the biggest source of uncertainty in determining future global sea levels. Interpreting clues from the past ice margins is critical to understanding the future, and

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Beneath the Ice: Climate change is impacting the building blocks of polar marine food webs

By Rebecca Duncan & Georgia Barrington-Smith The polar food web at risk from shrinking sea ice Standing on the frozen ocean, it’s hard to imagine life thriving in such a harsh environment. Yet, on the underside of the ice lies a bustling world: a community of sea ice algae and tiny animals called zooplankton. These

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AINSE 2024 Postgraduate O’Week wraps up!

By Georgia Barrington-Smith, 31st October 2024 AINSE celebrated another successful year of our Postgraduate Orientation Week (O’Week) during the International celebrations of Nuclear Science Week! AINSE were delighted to welcome thirty postgraduate scholars and future scholarship applicants to our 2024 Postgraduate Orientation Week, hosted online during Nuclear Science Week from 21st – 25th October. The

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Research spotlight: Caleb Stamper (Wollongong University)

Improving energy materials by understanding heat flow on the atomic scale By Georgia Barrington-Smith & Dr Rebecca Duncan With advancements in technology and increases in population leading to a looming energy crisis, it is vital to optimise energy use to meet our future needs. One of the major issues in energy generation is the production

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Improving energy materials by understanding heat flow on the atomic scale

By Georgia Barrington-Smith & Dr Rebecca Duncan With advancements in technology and increases in population leading to a looming energy crisis, it is vital to optimise energy use to meet our future needs. One of the major issues in energy generation is the production of wasted energy in the form of heat. To address this

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Tiny solutions to a big problem: Targeted delivery of anti-cancer drugs using pH-responsive nanoparticles

By Georgia Barrington-Smith & Dr Rebecca Duncan Cancer continues to be one of the leading causes of death worldwide, claiming the lives of millions of people each year. One of the first-line treatments of cancer is chemotherapy: powerful drugs that attack cancer cells and prevent their spread. Historically, the main drawback of chemotherapy drugs has

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