Nominations are now closed
Nominations for Fresh Science 2010 are now closed. Thank you and best of luck to everyone who nominated in 2010! Winners will be notified on Tuesday 27 April 2010.
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Help your brain filter out tinnitus and get your life back this Tinnitus Awareness Week
Experts available to talk about tinnitus, their family experience, and how new tools can make a difference for millions of people. A free trial of the latest evidence-based therapies is available for Tinnitus Awareness Week. The seven-day challenge incorporates the latest research from Newcastle University in the UK along with research from Auckland University, the…
$129 million Care Economy Cooperative Research Centre starts work today
Who will care for me as I age? Who will care for my children so I can go to work? Who will support me so that I can participate fully in life? How can we help the carers? How can we guarantee quality and safety of care into the future? Can technology improve care and reduce costs?
Volcanic bubbles help foretell the fate of coral in more acidic seas
By 2100 Australian and global coral reef communities will be slow to recover, less complex, and dominated by fleshy algae, as high carbon dioxide changes ocean chemistry. An international study published today in Communications Biology has used unique coral reefs in Papua New Guinea to determine the likely impact of ocean acidification on coral reefs in the face…
A brain bank of schizophrenia to fast-track diagnosis and better treatments; The stem cells in your brain are sleeping until they’re needed
Monday 10 November 2025 Winners of the National Stem Cell Foundation of Australia’s Metcalf Prizes announced today Scientists available for interviews, see below for contact details Two researchers using stem cells to study schizophrenia, degenerative diseases and brain cancer are winners of the 2025 Metcalf Prizes for Stem Cell Research, awarded by the National Stem…
A brain bank of schizophrenia to fast-track diagnosis and better treatments
Dr Maria Di Biase has created a ‘brain bank’ of schizophrenia: blobs of brain cells from 100 patients, growing in the lab. She’s using these brain organoids to develop urgently needed new approaches to diagnosis and treatment. Schizophrenia affects about one in 300 people worldwide. It usually manifests in adolescence. People with schizophrenia lose an…
The stem cells in your brain are sleeping until they’re needed
Waking up brain stem cells at the right time could one day improve cognition and fight neurodegenerative diseases and cancer, according to Dr Lachlan Harris, a researcher at QIMR Berghofer in Brisbane Right now, most of the stem cells in your brain have been hibernating for months or years. Without periods of this sleep-like state,…
