Calling all women in physics – are you the next Prof Brian Cox?
Work with Emmy-award winning documentary maker Sonya Pemberton The team at Genepool are looking for a female physicist to host their next international documentary series.
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Colour-changing dragons to reveal their secrets
Colour-changing dragons to reveal their secrets A zoological mystery that could change medicine and solar energy? Media call and release 11 am, Sunday 7 April with bearded dragons at the Zoology Department, University of Melbourne, Parkville. An international research initiative led by the University of Melbourne’s Dr Devi Stuart-Fox will investigate how and why…
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Profile of Dr Devi Stuart-Fox
From colour-changing lizards to colour-changing bandages… Colour and movement show how species evolve, bring a second international L’Oréal For Women in Science honour, and a $470,000 ARC grant for University of Melbourne evolutionary biologist Dr Devi Stuart-Fox. Devi Stuart-Fox is attracted to show-offs. “I’m just really fascinated by animals with fabulous colours and ornaments.” And…
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Images of Devi and her colour-changing dragons
There’s high res images and footage available below.
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Volunteers continue search for father and son pilots missing in Mozambique
South African pilots Bryan and Robert Simms have been missing since 28 October, when the light aircraft they were ferrying had to make an emergency landing in Mozambique and disappeared. Their family have filed a missing persons report and believe that the missing pilots made an emergency landing in or near the Gorongosa National Park….
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Search continues for missing aviators in Mozambique
9 November 2012 Bryan Simms and his son Robert disappeared while flying over Mozambique on 28 October.
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PM’s science prizes to be announced next week
Next Wednesday evening, 31 October, the Prime Minister will announce the winners of the 2012 Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science at a dinner in the Great Hall of Parliament House, Canberra. We have password-protected media kits for the five winners available online here. There will be a media briefing in the Great Hall at noon…
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PM's science prizes to be announced next week
Next Wednesday evening, 31 October, the Prime Minister will announce the winners of the 2012 Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science at a dinner in the Great Hall of Parliament House, Canberra. We have password-protected media kits for the five winners available online here. There will be a media briefing in the Great Hall at noon…
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The good, the bad and chronic hepatitis
Today is World Hepatitis Day and it brings good news and bad news. The bad news is that hepatitis is still a serious condition which affects nearly 400,000 Australians putting them on a course to serious liver disease. “The good news is that treatment is now less invasive, of shorter duration, much more effective—and diagnosis…
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Observation of a New Particle with a Mass of 125 GeV
In a joint seminar today at CERN and the “ICHEP 2012” conference[1] in Melbourne, researchers of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) presented their preliminary results on the search for the standard model (SM) Higgs boson in their data recorded up to June 2012.