Hacking the genome, how diamonds aren’t forever, and anemones with personality
This week on radio, Tim Thwaites is talking about hacking the genome; rebooting the heart; anemones with personality; how diamonds aren’t forever; and more…
astronomy
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A planet going the wrong way
By travelling backwards it’s pushing knowledge forwards
All planets move around their stars in the same direction as the star spins—at least that’s what we thought.
But now Australian National University astronomer Dr Daniel Bayliss and his colleagues have found that some planets break the mould.Using one of the world’s largest telescopes in Chile, Daniel and […]
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Wayward whales, battling sea monsters, possums in packs, and space junk
This week on radio, Tim Thwaites is talking about wayward whales; possums in packs; battling sea monsters; space junk; and more
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Backward stars, bionic ears and the day after tomorrow
This week on radio, Tim Thwaites is talking about marijuana without the high; bionic ears with no strings; backward stars; the Day After Tomorrow; and more
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Predicting asthma attacks, cyberstalking, and ancient Egyptian prostheses
This week on radio, Tim Thwaites is talking about predicting asthma attacks; black hole spin; cyberstalking; ancient Egyptian prostheses; and more
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Galactic voting, lethal injections and nutritious bat dung…
This week on radio, Tim Thwaites is talking about galactic voting; what playing on-line games reveals about you; executions by lethal injection; plants that feed on bat dung; and more
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Twitter dialects, dazzling pirates, and new urban birds
This week on radio, Tim Thwaites is talking about Twitter dialects; dazzling pirates; smart contact lenses; new urban bird species; and more
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Tomorrow’s technology pioneers; diamond in your eyes and your blood and other stories
Wednesday 8 December 2010 Today’s stories from the physics conference in Melbourne include: Tomorrow’s technology pioneers recognised today From the laser to quantum optics Prof Kostya (Ken) Ostrikov (Kostya.Ostrikov@csiro.au), a CSIRO scientist who set the ground rules for constructing new materials atom by atom using collections of charged particles known as plasmas; Teleportation Prof Hans-Albert…
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Space storms, Aussies at the LHC, home computers find pulsars and more…
7 December 2010 Here’s today’s stories from the physics congress in Melbourne. Space storms threat to power and phones Are solar flares damaging our ozone layer? The future of nuclear science Superconductors reveal their secrets Dark matter: detecting the invisible Pulsar found with 250,000 home computers Lies, damn lies and climate change sceptics: what has…
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Director General CERN announces $25M Australian centre on origins of universe
Media Release Tuesday 7 December 2010 Isssued by the University of Melbourne The Director General of CERN, Switzerland, Professor Rolf-Dieter Heuer, has announced a new $25m Australian Research Council Centre to explore the origins of the universe after the big bang at the Australian Institute of Physics Congress today. Led by the University of Melbourne,…