After years of building NCRIS enabled software to address geodynamics problems, researcher and AuScoper from The University of Melbourne, Rohan Byrne, found an opportunity to turn his Everest code to help model COVID-19 mobility data during Melbourne’s 2020 and 2021 lockdown periods.
Read MoreIn a paper published today in Nature Human Behaviour, researchers from The University of Melbourne and The University of Western Australia use a pioneering, AuScope enabled radiocarbon dating technique to date the artwork as being between 17,500 and 17,100 years old — making it Australia’s oldest known in-situ rock painting.
Read MoreA new simulation offers a different view of how the continents we live on drifted into their current configuration.
Read MoreThe landscape of eastern Australia is dotted with hundreds of extinct volcanoes. They gave rise to an environment to which Aboriginal people have been connected for tens of thousands of years, and the rich soils upon which modern Australia has grown in the last few hundred years.
Read MoreOur responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have dramatically changed human activity all over the world. People are working from home, schools are closed in many places, travel is restricted, and in some cases only essential shops and businesses are open.
Read MoreScientists are among the millions of die-hard Game of Thrones fans digesting the show’s finale today. The striking landscape of Game of Thrones has led some researchers to build climate simulations that explain the erratic seasons depicted in the show, and others to piece together the geological history.
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