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Details: Published: 03 July 2012

Researchers are using synchrotron techniques to investigate the origins of the ochres used in Aboriginal Australian artefacts – potentially revealing new information on ochre exchange routes and Aboriginal Australian cultural relationships across Australia.

Details: Published: 03 July 2012

Spintronics is an emerging field of nanoscale electronics that could lead to smaller, more versatile and more robust electronic devices for a market worth hundreds of billions of dollars.

Details: Published: 02 July 2012

AS users have chalked up a previously impossible measurement, investigating how proteins behave in solutions as dilute as 2 micrograms per millilitre.

Details: Published: 02 July 2012

New research showing how some drugs cause side-effects by activating the immune system to attack the body’s own tissues will lead to new drugs designed to avoid these side-effects.

Details: Published: 02 July 2012

In mid-June 2012, the Australian Synchrotron achieved a record 99.76 percent for ‘beam availability’, a measure that compares the hours of synchrotron light we delivered to the hours of synchrotron light we allocated for experiments.

Details: Published: 02 July 2012

As a result of being recommended by AS staff, Australian company Tomco Technologies has sold two RF amplifiers to Japan.

Details: Published: 02 July 2012

All visitors to the Australian Synchrotron should first report to the new reception area in the National Centre for Synchrotron Science, which is to your right as you enter the site.