Follow your ears online to test your hearing, take part in a giant science experiment and be in the running to win tickets to any concert that pleases your ears. [Read more…] about Are you a binge listener?
2012 L’Oréal Australia & New Zealand For Women in Science Fellowships to be announced Tuesday 21 August
The 2012 L’Oréal Australia & New Zealand For Women in Science Fellowships will be announced this Tuesday 21 August at 6:30pm at the award ceremony in Melbourne.
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2012 Fellowships to be announced Tuesday 21 August
The 2012 L’Oréal Australia & New Zealand For Women in Science Fellowships will be announced this Tuesday 21 August at the award ceremony in Melbourne starting 6 pm at Comme, 7 Alfred Place. Then on Wednesday 22 August, 300 female high school students will head to the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for the Girls in […]
Protected: Fellow 3 – embargoed to 5 pm Tuesday 21 August 2012
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Healthcare that works for the Facebook and Skype era
Launch and embargo 10.30 am Friday, 17 August 2012
With Victorian Health Minister David Davis MLC
At The Alfred Centre, Monash University Lecture Theatre, Level 5, 99 Commercial Road
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The challenge of chronic disease management
This is background information and comments from GPs and experts at the collaborative Care Cluster Australia launch.
Find the full release at www.scienceinpublic.com.au/precedence
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Thought-controlled wheelchair to help severely disabled
“Think of a Rubik’s cube to turn right, close your eyes to stop”
A working prototype of a wheelchair steered by thoughts, rather than hands, will be demonstrated live to the public in Sydney next week.
About 700,000 Australians live with severe disability—many entirely dependent on someone else to move.
They may soon be more mobile thanks to the Thought-controlled Intelligent Machine (TIM), developed at the University of Technology Sydney. [Read more…] about Thought-controlled wheelchair to help severely disabled
Protected: Giving patients more control of their lives
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Fresh Science 2012 – state finals on the way
This year, we are able to open Fresh Science to a wider number of participants and audiences by introducing state-based finals in Queensland, New South Wales, South Australia and Victoria.
As a part of each state final, we’ll be holding science-in-the-pub events which are open to the public.
This year there will be state finals in:
- Queensland on 27 August
- Victoria on 5 September
- New South Wales on 10 September and;
- South Australia on 12 September
The national final will be in Melbourne from 15-18 October, shortly after the Victorian school holidays.
If you’d like us to keep in touch about the Fresh Science program and pub events, email aj@scienceinpublic.com.au.
The Australian Synchrotron helps its big brother in Geneva
The synchrotron’s intense electron beam contributes to the enhancement of the Large Hadron Collider and the design of future accelerators.
The discovery of a Higgs boson-like particle will see the international research effort shift focus to study its unique characteristics – and it is here that Australia’s Synchrotron is playing a collaborative role with CERN. [Read more…] about The Australian Synchrotron helps its big brother in Geneva