The world cannot rely solely on high tech, genetic modification to generate the extra food needed to satisfy a human population projected to peak at about 9.5 billion later this century, according to …
The Eternal Order in Nature: The Science of Botanical Illustration
Botanical illustration incorporates an extraordinary range of plant representations from flower paintings to finely detailed drawings of plants used for botanical purposes. As an artform it is often …
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Improving wheat yields for global food security
Issued by CSIRO Ref 11/81 With the world’s population set to reach 8.9 billion by 2050, CSIRO scientists are hunting down and exploiting a number of wheat’s key genetic traits in a bid to …
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Species affected by climate change: to shift or not to shift?
Issued by CSIRO Ref 11/78 Relocating species threatened by climate change is a radical and hotly debated strategy for maintaining biodiversity. In a paper published today in the journal Nature …
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No plants: no foods, no fuel, no life…
Monday at the Botanic Congress For humanity, all seven billion of us, plants, algae and fungi are the major source of food, clothing, shelter and medicine. Our fossil fuels were formed by them. …
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Science and religion agree – again…
Botanists drop Latin for new species descriptions A rose by any other name would smell as sweet In 1539 the Church of England recognised Latin was a barrier to understanding, and published the Great …
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The World Congress of Asian Psychiatry
This week we're at the 3rd World Congress of Asian Psychiatry. Visit the Congress media pages here: www.scienceinpublic.com.au/wcap And the Congress pages at …
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Fewer rain storms across southern Australia
Published by CSIRO on 4 July 2011 Decreasing autumn and winter rainfall over southern Australia has been attributed to a 50-year decrease in the average intensity of storms in the region – a trend …
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Melbourne to host earthquakes, tsunamis, floods
News Alert from CSIRO Media Centre 24 June 2011 One of the world's largest meetings of earth scientists will commence next Tuesday in Melbourne. Almost 4000 participants from about 100 …
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Australian Institute of Physics Congress 2010 – a summary of stories
Here are the stories that emerged from The 19th Australian Institute of Physics Congress incorporating the 35th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology that took place from 5-9 December 2010 …
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The physics of money – testing the stability of the system
Every working day some $150 billion flows through Australia’s Interbank system. Postgraduate student Andrey Sokolov from the University of Melbourne, together with colleagues from Melbourne and …
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Invisible fibres disappearing soon
Alessandro Tuniz and colleagues at the University of Sydney have designed a fibre that would be invisible over a range of colours. And because of recent developments in ways to draw hybrid materials …