Curtin researchers make battery-free breakthrough
New Curtin University-led research has found a more effective way to improve the output of autonomous power sources, such as triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs).
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Study of 300-million-year-old faeces finds meat on the menu
Curtin researchers have analysed organic molecules preserved within 306-million-year-old fossilised animal faeces (coprolite) and unlocked a wealth of information.
Worldwide flower family bloomed 50 million years before the dinosaurs
New Curtin-led research has discovered that a group of flowering plants with more than one thousand species worldwide is 150 million years older than botanists previously believed.
Renowned physicist inducted into Western Australian Science Hall of Fame
A world-leading expert in the field of atomic collisions and theoretical physics has been inducted into the Western Australian Science Hall of Fame.
Comet impacts formed continents when Solar System entered galactic arms
New Curtin research has found evidence that Earth’s early continents resulted from being hit by comets as our Solar System passed into and out of the spiral arms of the Milky Way Galaxy.
New Curtin Institute to tackle the transition to sustainable energy
A new institute that aims to train and support the next generation of energy opportunity hunters to enable the transition to clean, sustainable energy has been officially launched at Curtin.
Curtin University in world’s top one percent of universities
Curtin University is again ranked in the world’s top one percent of universities and ninth in Australia, according to the prestigious Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) 2022.
Study finds evidence that giant meteorite impacts created the continents
Curtin research has provided the strongest evidence yet that Earth’s continents were formed by giant meteorite impacts that were prevalent during the first billion years or so of the…
Earth’s ancient water cycle was key to making continents, study shows
A new Curtin University study has found that water was transported much deeper in the early Earth than previously thought, shedding new light on how the continents were originally formed.
Supervolcano study finds CO2 emissions key to avoiding climate disasters
The speed and volume of carbon dioxide emitted from supervolcanoes controlled the severity of past environmental crises on Earth, a new international Curtin-led study has found.