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23 April 2020 - SIROPAN precursor aims for >20% increase in carbon fibre properties with increased control via RAFT polymerization, FLOW processing and novel metrology.

4 March 2020 - Ten outstanding early-career researchers have been selected to attend the highly prestigious annual gathering of Nobel Laureates and emerging scientists from around the world. The delegates will represent Australia at the 70th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Germany in 2021.

6 February 2020 - It won't tackle global carbon emissions yet, but a new technology from Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, has found a way to pull carbon dioxide (CO2) out of the atmosphere and put it into beer and other beverages.

24 January 2020 - The cyanide-free gold recovery technology using non-toxic products has been recognised as the top mineral processing innovation in 2019 by Mining Magazine.

19 November 2019 -The Science and Industry Endowment Fund (SIEF) has engaged Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, to deliver new funding to support small-to-medium enterprises.

2 September 2019 - SIEF has funded 80 young researchers to attend the annual Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting since 2013. Today the future of the program has been secured with the announcement of $1 million from SIEF to continue funding the Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting Fellowships and Heidelberg Fellowships for an additional 10 years

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24 June 2019 - The NSW Government has teamed with the CSIRO to launch a new $25 million program to attract, support and retain young people in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) education and skilled careers.

19 June 2019 - Australia is leading the charge towards greener and safer gold production with an environmentally-superior alternative gold recovery process technology.

A view of a river in remote outback Australia from above. The view of the river and surrounding bush takes up most of the image, with a the horizon in the top of the picture. The terrain is mostly forested and flat with some small hills in the distance on the top right hand corner. The left of the river has a large expanse of sand flats with trees growing through these sand flats.

28 March 2019 - Scientists from CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, can now test ancient groundwater up to a million years old with far greater accuracy thanks to a new facility.

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1 March 2019 - Ten of Australia’s top young physicists, seven of them women, have earned the opportunity to attend a highly prestigious annual gathering of Nobel Laureates and emerging scientists from around the world.