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.
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$2 billion telescope good for Africa, Australia and the world
Looking for life, dark energy and the beginning of time Southern Africa, Australia and NZ are to share the Square Kilometre Array – a giant radio telescope that will consist of thousands of separate radio dishes and other antennae spread across an area the size of a continent. We’ve pulled together links to our stories…
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Don’t send your recycled glasses to developing countries, it costs twice as much as giving them ready-made glasses
You might feel good sending your old reading glasses to a developing country. But a recent international study, led by the International Centre for Eyecare Education (ICEE), a collaborating partner in the Vision CRC, in Sydney, suggests it is far better to give $10 for an eye examination and a new pair of glasses if…
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Science in Charlie Teo's Australia Day address
In his Australia Day address, noted brain surgeon Charlie Teo said he was ashamed to admit to an American friend, who had received a US$50 million grant in the US to study brain cancer, that he works with just AU$150,000 over three years from the Australian government. Teo says we need another AIS – one…
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Science in Charlie Teo’s Australia Day address
In his Australia Day address, noted brain surgeon Charlie Teo said he was ashamed to admit to an American friend, who had received a US$50 million grant in the US to study brain cancer, that he works with just AU$150,000 over three years from the Australian government. Teo says we need another AIS – one…
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How does our intelligence change through life
Nature paper reveals the genetic influence on our IQ as we age Embargo 6 am AEST, Thursday 19 January 2012 Issued for the Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland. Researchers from Brisbane, Edinburgh and Aberdeen have revisited about 2,000 people who had intelligence tests in 1932 or1947, and shown that genetic factors may account for…