Contents

The land beneath

• Parkinson answers deep in the brain
• Mapping the seafloor from space

Preparing for the worst

• OPAL reactor fingerprints Aboriginal ochre
• Preparing for the worst
• A step towards an everlasting battery

Recognising science leaders since 2000

• Back to the future for father of biotechnology
• Seeing fish through rocks
• The life and death of blood cells
• Saving our skins
• Virtual management of the world’s oceans
• How a molecular assassin operates

• Computing with a single electron
• Take control of your hearing
• Could we grow drugs using sunflowers?

• Unmasking melanoma early
• Curing cancer with radiation – safely
• Two steps forward for cancer detection

• Helping eyes to help themselves
• Life’s work closer to saving lives
• Milk could soothe the savage gum

The right forecast

• Stopping parasite means more, safer meat
• Giving farmers more timely weather and climate forecasts
• Australian farmers bring climate research to the paddock

Science stories

• Plastic not fantastic for seabirds
• Saving koalas by vaccination
• Rapid identity check for border security pests

• Diamonds for extreme electronics
• Body’s power plants offer clues to Parkinson’s disease
• Cementing a greener future

• Skin deep discovery reveals immune mysteries
• Improved myopia treatment in sight
• Pain relief from the sea

• Faster flash flood warnings
• Parasites betrayed by their genome
• Putting a cap on fatigue

• Crashing helicopters for safety
• Silicon solves helicopter corrosion
• Australian scientists elected to Royal Society

• Is that you in the video?
• Building a better banana
• Dirt solves murder mysteries

• Spot the nutrients
• Yeast to make jet fuels
• Slide back in time and see the Himalayas form

• Fresh Science 2010