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Corrosion and its potential impacts to major infrastructure is a common and often costly challenge faced by many offshore operators.Supported by a contribution of more than $2.5 million from Chevron Australia, the team at Curtin will…

A world-class collaborative research project has found that the Australian population of southern right whales is calving less frequently and fewer whales visited our coastlines this whale season than expected, putting further pressure on…

Lead author PhD student Madison Tripp from Curtin’s WA-Organic and Isotope Geochemistry Centre (WA-OIGC) said the research had revealed important biomolecular information that, despite being millions of years old, remained intact at a…

The new research, published in Geology, challenges the existing theory that Earth’s crust was solely formed by processes inside our planet, casting a new light on the formative history of Earth and our place in the cosmos.Lead researcher…

Released annually by the ShanghaiRanking Consultancy, ARWU ranks more than 1800 universities worldwide and publishes the top 1000 according to four research criteria: Quality of Education; Quality of Faculty; Research Output; and Per…

Dr Tim Johnson, from Curtin’s School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, said the idea that the continents originally formed at sites of giant meteorite impacts had been around for decades, but until now there was little solid evidence to…

Lead researcher Dr Qiang Jiang, a Curtin PhD graduate from Curtin’s School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, said the findings were vital to understanding how to prevent future climate disasters.“Earth’s biological cycle has been…

Joining forces for the new WA Agricultural Research Collaboration (the Collaboration) are leading scientists from Curtin, the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD), Australia’s national science agency CSIRO,…

Joining forces for the new WA Agricultural Research Collaboration (the Collaboration) are leading scientists from Curtin, the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD), Australia’s national science agency CSIRO,…

In a new finding that helps explain the planet’s evolution from uninhabitable to life supporting, lead researcher and PhD student Maximilian Droellner, from the Timescales of Mineral Systems Group within Curtin’s School of Earth and…