Inspiring Victoria
Is that angry bird Australian, art and science combine to explain free radicals and more.
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Building CERN’s LHC out of Lego at Scienceworks
At Scienceworks this weekend parents and kids are building a Lego model of a piece of the Large Hadron Collider – that’s CERN’s 27km long particle accelerator buried underneath the French-Swiss border which is looking for the Higgs boson, aka the “God particle”
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Can Australian researchers help maintain the technological superiority of the US Air Force?
And what are the benefits for Australian research? Today in Washington DC, the Australian Ambassador Kim Beazley will open a four day workshop with more than 60 US defence researchers and 33 Australian nanotechnology scientists. The meeting, organised by the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF), will…
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Vaccines to change the world – public forum in Melbourne
Vaccines to change the world – Australia’s role in a critical global health mission – immunising against deadly diseases This forum marks the launch of Australia’s Role in the World, a partnership initiative between The Australian Institute of International Affairs, The University of Melbourne and UN Youth Australia to engage young people, academia and the…
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Melbourne wins conference on future biology
The cellular-wide impact of cancer; how pests interact with wheat plants; what characteristics of yeast give wine its taste. These are the sorts of complicated questions scientists from around the world will come to Melbourne in 2014 to discuss at the 15th International Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB 2014). Systems biology uses all the tools…
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A new international initiative to understand life
Australia-Japan collaborative agreement signed on Tuesday 13 March in Melbourne
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Australian solar lights reach Pakistan flood refugees
Melbourne inventors create a $10 solar light that generates carbon credits and transforms lives A Melbourne invention is brightening the lives of hundreds of thousands of flood refugees in Pakistan by bringing them sustainable solar light. The governments of Britain, the USA, Japan and the EU have all bought the new lights and supplied them…
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L’Oréal For Women In Science Fellowships Nominations opening on 1 April 2012
Applications for the L’Oréal For Women In Science Fellowships will open on 1 April 2012. You can view the 2011 selection criteria here http://www.scienceinpublic.com/loreal/applications. You can view some frequently asked questions here http:/…
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One unlucky letter causes an infant epilepsy
A 20 year old mystery was solved this week with the discovery that an epilepsy that affects infants is caused by the change of a single letter in one gene. Seizures in infancy are not rare, but this familial epilepsy occurs in probably 60 families acro…
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Who’s the boss? Melbourne research shows cells influence their own destiny
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researchers, with the help of NICTA’s Victoria ICT Laboratory, are a step closer to being able to model the complexity of our immune system in a computer thanks to research published in Science today. This will be a critical tool in developing new vaccines and better therapies for autoimmune diseases.