The European Union is a major driver of scientific research. Stories of European-Australian Research highlights the scope of collaboration between Europe and Australia that spans almost every discipline.
These include:
- Breeding grapevine varieties to be resilient in the face of warming temperatures;
- Building the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), the biggest scientific instrument in the world;
- Designing 3D printers to make carbon fibre on an industrial scale;
- Overcoming the engineering challenges of hypersonic travel;
- Constructing, launching and operating CubeSats.
- And many more.
Contents
- Making wine in a warming world
- Tougher materials for bigger turbines
- Spying on the denizens of the Southern Ocean
- 3D printing carbon fibre at industrial scale
- Hypersonic travel
- Big data for life
- Sharing knowledge, fighting fires
- 50 CubeSats explore the thermosphere
- International eye in the sky
- Bone mechanics
- The world’s largest scientific instrument
- The neutron zone
- Compound interest
- Finding the way to zero-carbon energy
- Australian mirrors helping to power Cyprus
- Inventing the ultimate suspension system
- How much carbon can we dig in?
