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Our international science journalists’ dinner
On Sunday 14 February for journalists at the 2016 AAAS, Washington DC Forty of the world’s leading science journalists will join me for a good dinner, Australian shiraz, and a briefing on some of the best of Australian science on Sunday 14 February 2016 during the AAAS Annual Meeting in Washington DC. Science in Public’s…
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Brain training to give tendon pain the boot
Re-training the brain with painless exercises may be the key to stopping recurring tendon pain, according to Melbourne researchers. AFL, basketball and netball players are the major sufferers, with tendon pain in the knee debilitating and long-lasting. The injury can sideline a player or cause them to give up the sport entirely. “More than 50…
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Geoff Carr, The Economist’s Science Editor, in conversation this Thursday at University of Melbourne
Join us for a conversation with Geoff Carr, The Economist’s Science Editor, hosted by the University of Melbourne on behalf of the Parkville Precinct Communications Group, at a special viewing of the exhibition TRANSMISSIONS | Archiving HIV/AIDS | Melbourne 1979-2014. The exhibition showcases artworks, manuscripts, and other material from private collections and public archives explores…
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Life-changing bionics start with Dalek voices and flashes of light
The first 30 years of bionics in Melbourne; transforming lives, creating jobs A Dalek talking inside your head proves the worth of the bionic ear And a little flash at first, then cloud-like images are just the start of the potential of the bionic eye. Two people whose lives have been changed by the work…
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We’re hiring: project manager/science publicist
We’re looking for a project manager and/or science publicist with 3 to 5 years’ experience to join our team at Science in Public. Ideally, we’d like someone who’s got runs on the board getting science, health, or environment stories into the public domain. The more knowledge you have of the science world in Australia the…
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More exciting than the law, more glamorous than accounting…
Australia’s Future: 28 creative careers for adventurous young people in science, technology, engineering and mathematics Chief Scientist Professor Ian Chubb this morning launched Australia’s Future, a free magazine featuring 28 people and the very different journeys they’ve taken from their studies in science and maths, in the Mural Hall at Parliament House, Canberra. Dr Liz New, a…
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Evolution stuck in slime for a billion years
Wednesday 19 February 2014 Tasmanian researchers have revealed ancient conditions that almost ended life on Earth, using a new technique they developed to hunt for mineral deposits. The first life developed in the ancient oceans around 3.6 billion years ago, but then nothing much happened. Life remained as little more than a layer of slime…
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2013 Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science – photos
Photos from the Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science award ceremony.