2011 marks the fifth year that L’Oréal Australia will award its For Women in Science Fellowships to Australian early-career female scientists. Since its inception in 2007, the Fellowships, worth $20,000 each, have been awarded to 14 outstanding fema…
This week on radio, Tim Thwaites is talking about surreptitious sleep; feeding hummingbirds; why bats don’t like the rain; and more.
This week on radio, Tim Thwaites is talking about friendly bacteria; lasers in space; prescribing placebos; nanodiamonds; and more
Stories today at the physics congress in Melbourne A cubic kilometre of South Pole ice looking for dark matter From the chaos of stirring coffee to stirring rocks and cleaning up polluted ground water Silk microchips for instant blood tests Diamond’s light touch Enlightenment on a chip A single electron reader for silicon quantum computing
This week on radio, Tim Thwaites is talking about artificial skin; the optical illusions of bowerbirds; tractor beams; earthquakes; and more
Prof Colin Raston and his colleagues in the Centre for Strategic Nano-Fabrication at the University of Western Australia are setting about cleaning up the world—and chemical industry in particular—through developing a suite of technologies to enable continuous, rather than batch, processing. “We’re working at getting rid of the round-bottom glass in the laboratory, and the…
Scientists have been able to kill an infectious parasite using non-toxic gold nanoparticles and laser beams. “Our first target is Toxoplamosis gondii, a parasite that infects one in three people and causes problems especially in the young and old, and people with a compromised immune system says Michael Cortie from the University of Technology Sydney,…
Most Australians (84%) feel positive that science and technology are improving society. These positive perceptions have been strongly held over the last five years.
Bionic eyes, quantum computers and more efficient solar cells are among the many research projects set to benefit from a new facility due to be officially opened in Sydney on Friday.
Move aside bronze, iron, silicon We’re moving into the Diamond Age according to Professor David Awschalom from the University of California. He and his team have already built experimental diamond chips by punching atom-sized flaws into the diamond’s molecular structure.