Helping a community stay connected after record floods
When floods inundated the city of Lismore Australia, Southern Cross University became a hub for the town, using AARNet to provide connectivity for recovery efforts.
Technology
Oman airport introduces eduroam
Students and academic staffers can now access the eduroam Wi-Fi service at the Muscat International Airport of the Sultanate of Oman.
Open science helps us understand the Vikings
A European initiative for open science allows archaeologists to map the journeys of Vikings based on artifacts found in different countries.
ChatGPT for public education policies in Brazil
An innovative approach to improving the service experience for users of mobile data chips provided by the Internet Brasil program
Synchrotron sheds light on ancient Middle East
The technology reveals evidence for human heavy metal exposure, as well as preservation status of bone, dental tissue, and hair at micrometre scales.
Nordic climate researchers stronger together
Thanks to an EU open science program, the climate researchers in each Nordic country do not need to create their models of the Nordic climate system from scratch.
How Brazil tackled internet outages caused by heavy rain
After heavy rain caused internet outages in Petrópolis, the national research and education network of Brazil, RNP, managed to reestablish normal operation within a week.
URAN solves cloud services issues caused by the increased demand for virtual machines during the war
Numerous universities were able to take advantage of the free cloud services offered by URAN, but the increased demand led to an unforeseen crisis caused by disk storage overload in the NREN’s data centre.
Scientific computing contributes to superconductivity
Through a combination of new theory and raw computing power, at team at King’s College London is able to support development of superconducting materials. NRENs provide the necessary data transfer.