The Aussie hearing system you can set up yourself or for your gran: online and on your phone

From the bionic ear to the ‘audiologist in your pocket’ – high performance, low cost hearing for the four million of us who don’t want to admit our hearing loss

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An Australian company has completed a trifecta of tools to help Australians take care of their own hearing without the stress and expense of audiology visits. It’s the product of decades of government-backed research. [continue reading…]

• 7,500 participants so far
• 40 percent report they have a hearing loss
• One third of the under 40s are binge listening
• 70 percent experiencing ringing in their ears

Survey closes 12 September [continue reading…]

Tonight, three exceptional young women scientists will each receive a $25,000 L’Oréal Australia & New Zealand For Women in Science Fellowship to assist their research.

The 2012 Fellows are from Christchurch and Melbourne. Two are life scientists, one is a physical scientist. More here.

Also in this bulletin:

• Hear ye: Calling on farmers, musicians, baristas, doctors, pilots and others to join the national hearing survey
• Doctors talk about e-health helping 10,000 patients out of hospital

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Tonight, three exceptional young women scientists will each receive a $25,000 L’Oréal Australia & New Zealand For Women in Science Fellowship to assist their research.

The 2012 Fellows are from Christchurch and Melbourne. Two are life scientists, one is a physical scientist. More here.

Also in this bulletin:

• Hear ye: Calling on farmers, musicians, baristas, doctors, pilots and others to join the national hearing survey
• Doctors talk about e-health helping 10,000 patients out of hospital

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A working prototype of a wheelchair steered by thoughts, rather than hands, will be demonstrated live to the public in Sydney next week.

About 700,000 Australians live with severe disability—many entirely dependent on someone else to move.

They may soon be more mobile thanks to the Thought-controlled Intelligent Machine (TIM), developed at the University of Technology Sydney.   Read more here.

Also read about:

• Healthcare that works for the Facebook and Skype era – launch in Melbourne with Vic Health Minister at 10.30 am
• L’Oréal For Women in Science Fellowships next Tuesday
• Are you a binge listener? Test your hearing with Soundcheck Australia
  

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Kicking off in Sydney this Thursday 16 August, it’s 11 days of serious science fun, with 50 events running day and night around the Powerhouse Museum, the ABC Ultimo Centre, Ultimo TAFE and the University of Technology, Sydney.

So far, we’ve blogged about:

• Chemistry and creativity in the kitchen: Making tiny edible spheres of flavour is just one of the secrets of molecular gastronomy that food scientist and award-winning pastry chef Galit Segev will share at the Ultimo Science Festival.
• Animating mating krill: from Antarctic ocean floor to online music video – A video of tiny crustaceans mating was taken at the bottom of the ocean off the coast of Antarctica. Now it’s been transformed into an animation and remixed online into a music video.
• Iron-ageing: trace elements and their role in Parkinson’s disease: If all the iron in the human brain was put into one lump, it would amount to about the size of a grain of rice. But the metal plays a vital role in brain cells and their function.
• The life and inventions of Alan Turing: Turing expert Professor Jack Copeland and;
• ABC RN Forum – The Beast Within: dissecting the ethics of animal experimentation. [continue reading…]

• Do krill have sex? From Antarctic ocean floor to online music video;
• Trace elements in the brain helping us unlock the secrets of Parkinson’s disease;
• Molecular gastronomy: chemistry and creativity in the kitchen.

These are some of the stories from scientists participating in the he Ultimo Science Festival which kicks off in Sydney next Thursday, 16 August. It’s 11 days of serious science fun, with 50 events running day and night around the Powerhouse Museum, the ABC Ultimo Centre, Ultimo TAFE and the University of Technology, Sydney. [continue reading…]

• Do krill have sex? From Antarctic ocean floor to online music video;
• Trace elements in the brain helping us unlock the secrets of Parkinson’s disease;
• Molecular gastronomy: chemistry and creativity in the kitchen.

These are some of the stories from scientists participating in the he Ultimo Science Festival which kicks off in Sydney next Thursday, 16 August. It’s 11 days of serious science fun, with 50 events running day and night around the Powerhouse Museum, the ABC Ultimo Centre, Ultimo TAFE and the University of Technology, Sydney. [continue reading…]

A hearing loss expert who will tonight be awarded one of Australia’s top science prizes will address students in Sydney Friday 15 June on the danger posed by their iPods.

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