A new 'laser radar' system that allows real-time monitoring of potentially hazardous dust emissions has been successfully trialled in the industrial centre of Port Hedland. [ + ]

Researchers from the Telethon Kids Institute have found that children with vitamin D deficiency are more likely to develop asthma. [ + ]

Minister for Education and Training Simon Birmingham has announced $416.6 million in funding as part of the ARC's National Competitive Grants Programme. [ + ]

Pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies and contract manufacturers are increasingly adopting single-use systems to replace expensive stainless steel vessels and piping for high-purity fluid transfer in processing operations such as sampling and batch and vial filling. [ + ]

Women scientists in Australia and New Zealand hit the jackpot this week, with 25 outstanding female figures receiving recognition across three different sets of awards. [ + ]

Today is the last day of International BioFest — a series of three major life sciences conferences taking place over the one week. [ + ]

A team of Australian researchers has determined that hitting the gym twice a week can help ward off dementia and Alzheimer's disease. [ + ]

Biofuels production is rapidly maturing, and this will dramatically increase expectations for quality and volume industry-wide. [ + ]

The University of Wollongong has announced its plans for an $80 million Centre of Molecular and Life Sciences — its biggest ever self-funded research infrastructure investment. [ + ]

Australian and German scientists have used the world's largest steerable radio telescopes to create the most detailed map yet of the Milky Way. [ + ]

The 2016 Prime Minister's Prizes for Science were awarded at a dinner attended by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and the Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science, Greg Hunt, in the Great Hall of Parliament House. [ + ]

Researchers pioneering a new method of zooming in on leukaemia cells in action have found that the notoriously treatment-resistant blood cancer cells are not playing 'hide and seek', as was traditionally believed, but are actually playing a game of 'tag'. [ + ]

UK researchers have made the first ever direct observation of the elusive dewetting process, which takes place when a liquid film retracts to form a bead-shaped drop. [ + ]

A new study has analysed data for 2.4 million births in Sweden between 1973 and 1996 and determined that perinatal complications contribute to the risk of developing obsessive compulsive disorder later in life. [ + ]

Melbourne researchers have developed a nanoscale engineering method that transforms tiny particles into Lego-like modular building blocks. [ + ]