Prime Minister’s Science Prizes 2011
The Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science were presented by the Prime Minister and the Innovation Minister at the Prize Dinner in the Great Hall of Parliament House on Wednesday 12 October.
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How did the Universe light up – filling a billion years of cosmic history: 2011 Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year
Stuart Wyithe The Universe was born in a hot Big Bang. But after 300,000 years of expansion it became a cold dark place—no galaxies, no stars, no light. A billion years later nuclear fusion lit up the Universe as hydrogen atoms clumped to form stars and galaxies.
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Travelling faster than light, a vaccine for acne and missing planets
This week on radio, Tim Thwaites is talking about travelling faster than light; ancient proteins; a vaccine for acne; missing planets; and more…
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Revealing the dark side – in Tasmania this week
What we see in the night sky is only five per cent of the Universe. So what’s the other 95 per cent of the Universe made of – a young physicist has the answers across Tasmania this week. One of Australia’s leading young physicists will reveal the dark secrets of the Universe in Tasmania this…
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Protecting medical implants against hacking, restoring memories, and rocking adults to sleep
This week on radio, Tim Thwaites is talking about protecting medical implants from hacking; restoring memories; rocking adults to sleep; preventing heart attacks; and more
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Living lasers, scuba diving spiders and magnetic blood flow
This week on radio, Tim Thwaites is talking about living lasers; scuba diving spiders; magnetic blood flow; genes that make you unfaithful; and more
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Mobile drug labs, dolphin gangs and the corpse flower
This week on radio, Tim Thwaites is talking about mobile drug labs; the corpse flower; Easter Island; dolphin gangs; 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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Frog pee, eating arsenic, and swine flu
This week on radio, Tim Thwaites is talking about arsenic-eating microbes; vegetarian pandas; frog pee; the swine flu wash-up; and more
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Good Aussie home wanted for $140 million gravitational wave detector
9 December 2010 US researchers are offering Australia a gravitational wave detector worth $140 million provided Australia can build an appropriate facility, costing a further $140 million, to house it. The sophisticated detector would be part of a global search for gravitational waves, which were predicted by Einstein in his General Theory of Relativity, but…