Media releases on scientific advances, discoveries, awards, competitions and more.
The odds that a futuristic quantum computer will be built of silicon have received a boost, thanks to new technology recently invented by researchers in the Centre for Quantum Computer Technology (CQCT).
Smarter air traffic control could save 500 kg of fuel and reduce airport noise by 35% for a typical Boeing 747 flight between Sydney and Melbourne according to a team of Canberra-based researchers.
Why don’t elephants (and humans) have thousands of little babies instead of one big one?
The world’s fastest growing abalone—the tropical donkey’s ear abalone, Haliotis asinina—can be bred to grow rapidly and reliably for aquaculture, Queensland biologists have found. And that makes it potentially a high value alternative crop for struggling prawn farmers. The researchers looked at whether they could speed up breeding of abalone for aquaculture using modern technology…
The first practical atom laser is a step closer today thanks to Australian researchers. The researchers have shown how to refuel the laser with ‘quantum foam’ allowing continuous operation. The results, reported today in Nature Physics, hold great promise for precision measurement in navigation, industry and mining and for fundamental tests of quantum mechanics.
5 March 2008 Four leading Australian and New Zealand scientists are in Paris from 5th of March for the 10th anniversary of the L’ORÉAL/ UNESCO For Women In Science program. They’re all available to discuss the latest developments in their research including: The secret of ageing – telomerase How cancer cells cheat death How the…
As Papua New Guinea Pushes for Payments for Forest Conservation, New Analysis Says Nation May Be Running Out of Forests to Protect Satellite Images Show that PNG is Rapidly Losing its Extensive Forest Cover, Under Pressure from Industrial Logging, Agricultural Expansion and Forest Fires
Yours will follow! Friday, 18 April 2008: available for interviews this morning. Today the co-discoverer of the double helix, James Watson, had his genome published in the journal Nature. His was the second genome published. The first cost billions. Watson’s genome cost just a few hundred thousand.
Genetics of climate change; new vaccines; how plants flower; the personal genome and other stories from the gene revolution. Also visit: Background information Fifty five years after Watson and Crick discovered DNA’s double helix and ten years after Australia’s national genome facility opened, how are genetics and genomics changing our lives? What will the next…
New vaccine rollout through the GAVI Alliance expected to help extinguish childhood killer Canberra, Australia — Papua New Guinea will begin immunising children this month with a vaccine that promises to rid the nation of Haemophilus Influenzae type b, or Hib disease, one of the deadliest causes of meningitis and pneumonia.