Science and Technology

In 2018 we published hundreds of feature articles, news stories and think-pieces about the people, programs and places which make Victoria tick.

Melbourne professors Andrew Roberts and John Seymour have won a Victoria Prize for Science & Innovation for their development of an anti-cancer drug.

Australia’s first industry standard biobanking facility will soon be up and running in Melbourne.

Victoria’s prosperity and liveability are closely linked to our environment, says Dr Gillian Sparkes.

Horsham Grains Innovation Park – The Wimmera’s best kept secret.

Swinburne University’s Alan Duffy has taken out the Australian Museum’s 2018 Eureka Prize for science journalism.

A world-first patented electronic capsule developed in Melbourne to help identify gut disorders takes out top spot in an international competition.

A team from Melbourne’s RMIT University has invented an award-winning product to help detect harmful levels of UV radiation that cause melanoma.

A Q & A with an industry insider: Deirdre Diamante talks barriers and diversity in the tech sector.

Launched just a decade back, local software company Aconex sold recently for $US1.6 billion. We chart its rise.

Victoria is a national leader in artificial intelligence and our economy is reaping the rewards.

Could your business do with some free one-on-one advice? Then jump aboard the Small Business Bus.

Life for a woman working in the geoscience sector 40 years ago was, quite literally, like entering a minefield. Today the industry is now different.

Wangaratta secondary students have beaten 600 other teams to take out one of just six highly-coveted 2018 Service Awards at the ‘Robotics Olympics’.

A $16 million investment is helping position Victoria as the country’s main hub for medicinal cannabis.

The girledworld World of Work Summit 2018 at RMIT University on 16 and 17 June puts female tech trailblazers in contact with teenage girls.

Laureate Professor Hugh Taylor and his team are working on phasing out preventable blindness in Australia’s Indigenous communities by 2020.

Johnson & Johnson Innovation is teaming up with one of Victoria’s top research institutions, Monash University. We find out why.