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Will the internet work for you on Wednesday?

Schools, Google and Facebook testing the new Internet on ‘World IPv6 Day’

The world is running out of Internet addresses. A new system of addresses will fix that and allow you to have an address for every device in the home – your phone, TV, baby monitor, computer, and, with smart labels, even your wine bottles. But will it also break your Internet connection?

Find out tomorrow, 8 June, 2011, when Google, Facebook, Bing, Yahoo and many others turn on their new future-proofed websites using the new address system called IPv6 (Internet protocol version six).
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Applications for 2011 have now closed

Thank-you to all those who took the time to apply for the fellowships. The three $20,000 Fellowships are intended to help early-career women scientists consolidate their careers and rise to leadership positions in science. The Fellowships are awarded to women who have completed their PhD in the past five years – allowance is made for […]

A hearing aid you install yourself

Invented in Melbourne with bionic ear technology

Melbourne researchers have invented a small, smart, self-managed hearing aid that outperforms most conventional hearing aids for less than half the price.

It uses technology first developed for Australia’s bionic ear, and is so simple to set up that most users can buy one over the internet and fit it themselves. That brings the cost down to between $1,000 and $1500, or less than $3000 for a pair. [Read more…] about A hearing aid you install yourself

Australia Hears – fact sheets

These fact sheets are included in the media kit. You can download them separately here.

Fact sheet 1: Rediscover a world of sound – Australian researchers have invented a small, smart, self-managed hearing aid that outperforms most conventional devices for less then half the price.

Fact sheet 2: High-tech hearing at low cost – the science and technology behind Australia Hears.

Fact sheet 3: Ears wide open – the long road – bringing Australian hearing science to the community and the market.

Fact sheet 4: Independent audiologist Steve Grayson-Riley discusses the Australia Hears hearing aids

Fact sheet 5: Returning to the whole world of sound – Tim Thwaites, a science writer and broadcaster with Science in Public talks about his introduction to Australia Hears. He trialled and now uses an Australia Hears hearing aid that he purchased at his own expense online.

Ensuring Australia’s mining future

Australian Academy of Science media release

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Sixty of Australia’s big-thinking young geoscientists have identified how to ensure this country continues to be a powerhouse of mining for at least the next century.

The report of a Think Tank on the future of resource discovery and utilisation held at the Australian Academy of Science late last year was launched by the Minister for Resources and Energy, The Hon Martin Ferguson, today at the Shine Dome in Gordon Street, Canberra at 3 pm. [Read more…] about Ensuring Australia’s mining future