While coral reefs around the world are feeling the heat, little-known reefs in Australia’s Kimberley region are prospering, despite living in some of the toughest conditions—and scientists aren’t yet sure why. The discovery has particular significance this summer with fears of a severe coral bleaching event to hit our northern waters—the result of steadily rising…
Nominations for Fresh Science 2015 have now closed and judging has begun. Thanks to all 170+ nominees who took the time to tell us about themselves and their science. We are reading all the nominations right now, and we’ll get back to you all as soon as as soon as we can. We have quite…
Fresh Science 2015 We’re looking for the best and brightest early-career researchers who have made a peer-reviewed discovery and received little or no media attention. Fresh Science is a national competition that selects researchers with research results, an invention, or a discovery, trains them in how to tell their story, and helps them share their…
The shape of a centuries-old Buddhist singing bowl has inspired a Canberra scientist to re-think the way that solar cells are designed to maximize their efficiency. Dr Niraj Lal, of the Australian National University, found during his PhD at the University of Cambridge, that small nano-sized versions of Buddhist singing bowls resonate with light in…
Media call: 11am, 17 August 2014 with researchers and dogs at The University of Sydney Veterinary Teaching Hospital, NSW Pet abuse and domestic violence are closely linked. Animals can’t talk but University of Sydney vet Dr Lydia Tong has shown vets how to tell the difference between bone fractures caused by accidents and those caused…
Wednesday 9 July 2014 Video and photos of bees available Scientist available for interview Dr James Makinson evicts bees from their homes for a good reason—to figure out how they collectively decide on the next place to live. His research on bee communication and consensus-building has been published in this month’s issue of Animal Behaviour….
But SAHMRI researchers are making it starve by eating itself to death Scientist available for interview, Tuesday 1 July 2014 Stubborn cancer cells play a cunning trick when faced with treatments designed to kill them — they eat themselves to survive. But SAHMRI researchers have found a way to starve the cancer cells, making them…
And researchers need Perth men for a study to find out why Monday 23 June 2014 Media call 9-10am AWST at Edith Cowan University Mount Lawley Campus with researchers and patients. Perth researchers have shown that twice-weekly exercise can improve sexual function in prostate cancer patients by 50 per cent. Now, they’re calling on Perth…
Scientist available for interview, Tuesday 17 June 2014 Lighter-weight, fuel-efficient cars may be closer to reality thanks to Geelong researchers who are giving carbon fibre the gripping power it needs to be able to stand up to impacts from motorists. High-performance vehicles already use carbon fibre – a high-strength lightweight material that can be moulded…
But researchers have to teach yeast to make it Thursday 5 June 2014 Queensland researchers are persuading baker’s yeast to produce orange-flavoured renewable jet fuel from sugar. Mr Timothy Brennan and his colleagues at the University of Queensland’s Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology have helped genetically-engineered yeast to evolve to make an oil called…