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. They clean our air and water, store carbon, and protect us from floods and drought.
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 Bible in English. The Roman Catholic Church authorised usage of languages other than Latin in its services in the 1960s. now…
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 http://www2.kenes.com/wcap/Pages/Home.aspx
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 which is forecast to continue for another 50 years.”Our recent work on climate model projections suggests a continuation of these trends…
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 countries will discuss recent natural disasters and the impact on human life and infrastructure. Earth on the Edge: Science for a Sustainable Planet is the…
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 at the Melbourne Convention Centre. Use the table of contents below to see a brief paragraph on each story and then click on the story…
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 Swinburne universities, is analysing the flow of that money to study the dynamics of the overnight loan flows and the stability of the network. The team is developing dynamic…
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 into fibres, their proposal may be relatively straightforward to put into practice. Such fibres could lead to interesting effects in art, architecture…
By James Mitchell Crow Recurring prostate cancers can be subdued with a blast of laser light, say Swedish researchers who presented their latest research at the Australian Institute of Physics conference in Melbourne. Katarina Svanberg and colleagues at Lund University Hospital use lasers to build 3D maps of the tumours, and then to kill the…
By James Mitchell Crow UK physicists have developed new ways of generating industrial lasers powerful enough to slice through steel. The trick is to pass the beam along active optical fibres, David Payne from the University of Southampton told the Australian Institute of Physics conference in Melbourne. And 50 years after the first demonstration of…