The National Geotechnical Centrifuge Facility has become the only geotechnical modelling facility in the world that operates three centrifuges, welcoming a third 26-tonne fixed-beam centrifuge into its Indian Ocean Marine Research Centre building. [ + ]

Scientists have inadvertently discovered how to create a new type of crystal using light more than 10 billion times brighter than the sun, reversing what has been accepted thinking in crystallography for more than 100 years. [ + ]

Researchers have developed tiny, star-shaped molecules that can apparently kill superbugs — bacteria that are no longer affected by current antibiotics. [ + ]

The ACRF International Centre for the Proteome of Cancer (ProCan) is holding a symposium to celebrate its official opening. [ + ]

Researchers have found that doctors around the world are overdiagnosing the most common thyroid cancer, creating an artificial epidemic that costs billions of dollars each year in unnecessary medical costs. [ + ]

ANU scientists have developed a water-repelling coating that could one day be used to waterproof mobile phones, prevent ice from forming on aeroplanes and protect boat hulls from corroding. [ + ]

A study led by the University of Adelaide has found that the evolution of the human brain is closely linked with an increase in its blood supply. [ + ]

Paradigm Biopharmaceuticals and Griffith University have announced pentosan polysulfate sodium (PPS) as a potential breakthrough in the treatment for alphavirus-induced arthralgia and arthritis. [ + ]

Minister for Education and Training Simon Birmingham has announced $283.5 million in funding to set up nine new Australian Research Council Centres of Excellence, all of which relate to the federal government's Science and Research Priorities. [ + ]

Scitech has been appointed the authorised distributor for Mightex Systems in Australia and New Zealand. [ + ]

The world's keenest data scientists are invited to take part in a competition to predict seizures, using data from patients that has never before been available to researchers. [ + ]

Have you been weighing up the pros and cons of getting a tattoo? If so, you might want to consider exactly what's in the ink. [ + ]

Ai Group and CSIRO have partnered together in a program to increase the number of industry professionals showcasing real-life science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) skills and careers in Australian schools. [ + ]

GE Healthcare has announced an exclusive licensing agreement with Canada's STEMCELL Technologies that will see the latter provide its T-cell reagents for commercial-scale cell therapy production. [ + ]

The Ian Potter Australian Wildlife BioBank, a liquid nitrogen cryo facility for the long-term storage of wildlife tissue samples, has officially opened. [ + ]