The $500,000 Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science will be announced Wednesday evening at Parliament and are strictly embargoed to 5 pm Wednesday afternoon, 12 October.
The winners are from Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney. They are all remarkable achievers whose work is largely unknown outside of their discipline. [continue reading…]
From Marc Duldig, President of the Australian Institute of Physics Welcome to my bulletin covering physics news and events for October 2011 and beyond. This month European astronaut Hans Schlegel gives a public talk in Melbourne (6 October) and the nex…
This week on radio, Tim Thwaites is talking about travelling faster than light; ancient proteins; a vaccine for acne; missing planets; and more… [continue reading…]
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 week with a series of school and public talks in Burnie, Launceston, Devonport and Hobart.
Dr Tamara Davis is a L’Oréal Australia Fellow, the 2011 national Women in Physics lecturer, an astrophysicist at the Universities of Queensland and Copenhagen, and good talent. [continue reading…]
From Marc Duldig, President of the Australian Institute of Physics Welcome to my bulletin covering physics news and events for September 2011 and beyond. This month Tamara Davis (right) is talking to the public and school students about the dark side o…
From Marc Duldig, President of the Australian Institute of Physics Welcome to my bulletin covering physics news and events for August 2011 and beyond. This month sees the AIP learning about the Universe from the Large Hadron Collider in Hobart, seeking…
From Marc Duldig, President of the Australian Institute of Physics Welcome to my bulletin for covering physics news and events for July 2011 and beyond. This month we recognise 100 years of superconductivity with free public lectures in Launceston, Hob…
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 [continue reading…]
This week on radio, Tim Thwaites is talking about living lasers; scuba diving spiders; magnetic blood flow; genes that make you unfaithful; and more [continue reading…]
This week on radio, Tim Thwaites is talking about mobile drug labs; the corpse flower; Easter Island; dolphin gangs; and more [continue reading…]
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