Researchers in Australia are building the world's first brain-scale computer which will go online next year. According to a report by NewScientist last Tuesday (Dec 12), the supercomputer called DeepSouth is being built by the International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems (ICNS) in Sydney in partnership with Intel and Dell.

Australian researchers building world's first human brain-scale computer. It will go online next year

Two more universities in Australia - the Federation University in Victoria and Western Sydney University in New South Wales (NSW) -have banned recruitment from some Indian states in response to fresh concerns over a rise in fraudulent visa applications.

Two more Australian universities ban students from some Indian states amid visa fraud concerns: Report

Scientists from Western Sydney University and CSIRO found dancing ghosts deep in the cosmos as part of the first deep sky search utilising CSIRO's ASKAP (Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder) radio telescope.

Never seen before: Dancing 'cosmic ghosts' discovered by astronomers