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PRESS RELEASE FROM NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP Thursday 21 March 2013 Yonsei University topped the national institutional research rankings in South Korea for the first time, according to the Nature …
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Launch: Friday 1 March 2013, 9-10.30am Albert Park College, 83 Danks St, Albert Park, Victoria Do you weigh more in Melbourne or Canberra? What does our planet …
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Posted on behalf of the University of New South Wales It’s not every day that school students get to present their science project to a major scientific conference, and rarer still to receive a …
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Australian researchers are taking the twinkle out of stars for the world’s biggest light telescope, the Giant Magellan Telescope in Chile. And a new optical fibre – which can only be made in …
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A new, cheaper way to deliver accurate time across Australia: instead of using hydrogen maser clocks costing hundreds of thousands of dollars we can bounce signals through the national’s optical fibre …
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Quantum computers promise ultra-powerful, high speed number crunching. They’ll help us to search vast databases and model biological molecules at an atomic level. …
Our biggest hopes of keeping global methane levels down may be chewing the cud in a paddock near you. …
Sir Robert Menzies’ legacy continues Scholarships announced today to young leaders in physiotherapy, engineering, and the law in Sydney and Melbourne. The treatment of “loose joints”, or …
Climate change will affect how we farm, but we’re not at the point of ‘adapt or die’. Right now the meme is ‘adapt and profit’. Today’s stories from the agriculture and climate change conference …
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Wednesday 29 November at the CCRSPI conference on agriculture and climate change Can our farmers really help Australia meet its emissions targets using ‘soil carbon’? What will happen to the …
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Posted on behalf of Senator the Hon. Joe Ludwig - Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Minister assisting Queensland Floods Recovery and Senator for Queensland 27 …
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We throw away more fruit and veggies that we eat The genetics of burping – buying low emission bulls See the future of your vineyard under climate change? Take a walk downhill. We don’t need to …
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