Planning space missions is traditionally a time-consuming and costly process. But the new Australian National Concurrent Design Facility (ANCDF), housed at UNSW’s Canberra campus, speeds things up so a mission can be planned in weeks rather than months. Harnessing the expertise, design processes and software of the French Space Agency CNES (Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales),…
A new kind of wheat high in resistant starch can improve intestinal health Bowel cancer is the world’s third most common cancer. A diet that includes more resistant starch, a kind of fibre that feeds good bacteria in the large intestine, can make it less common. Resistant starch helps improve gut health and reduces the…
Monday: Niall’s in Canberra for the $50,000 CSL Florey Medal announcement. Release and images here. Tuesday: Niall’s at the Excellence in Health Journalism awards at the National Press Club. Update: Niall accepted the Health Journalist of the Year 2011 award on behalf of Melbourne film-maker Sonya Pemberton. More here. Wednesday: Blamey & Saunders Hearing’s new…
Immune Peacekeepers: Centenary Institute’s Barbara Fazekas St Groth has a paper coming out in PNAS Tuesday. Centenary Creative Prize: Andrew and Niall are in Sydney to attend the $25,000 Lawrence Creative Prize on Wednesday. Tamara Davis is talking Dark Energy at UQ in Brisbane, 6.30pm Wednesday.
PM’s Prizes: Niall, Sarah, Tim and AJ are at the PM’s Prizes for Science in Canberra. Details here. Dark Energy: Tamara Davis is talking about dark energy in Victoria. details here. On the horizon: For next week we’re thinking about the Centenary Prize for Creativity, and about an intriguing paper coming up about the immune…