Work, housing and friendships are core factors to feeling included. A new tool developed by researchers at Orygen to measure and monitor social inclusion was tested with more than 500 young people. By identifying the early signs of isolation and loneliness, support can be provided to prevent more serious mental ill-health. In mental healthcare, simple…
Images Additional Information Media release below Australian researchers find ways to overcome the blinding glare of quasars The telescope, due to launch in late 2021, is the largest, most powerful and complex space telescope ever built. Two new studies led by Madeline Marshall from Australia’s University of Melbourne and the ARC Centre of Excellence in…
Research conducted by former Fresh Science participant Dale Robinson has been covered in the 2020-2021 edition of Defence Science and Technology’s Outlook magazine. Dr Robinson is a biomedical engineer at the University of Melbourne. Minimising severe injury from blast events on military vehicles Blast events inflicted on military vehicles are a consistent threat in contemporary…
Researchers discover that protective immune cells are not created equally Personalised treatment of cancers has moved one step closer, thanks to University of Melbourne researcher Dr Susan Christo. Increasingly, cancers are being treated using an approach called immunotherapy – which uses a patient’s own immune cells to fight the disease. However, challenges arise in so-called…
A 20 year old mystery was solved this week with the discovery that an epilepsy that affects infants is caused by the change of a single letter in one gene. Seizures in infancy are not rare, but this familial epilepsy occurs in probably 60 families acro…
L’Oréal and UNESCO have just announced that Australian paediatric neurologist Professor Ingrid Scheffer is the Asia-Pacific L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Laureate for 2012. She is one of five international winners who will each receive US$1…
L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science grants Australian Scientist US$100,000 in one of the world’s most prestigious Science prizes: The 14th Annual L’ORÉAL-UNESCO For Women in Science Award Issued by L’Oreal Australia. Honouring five…
Ezio Rizzardo and David Solomon In the coming years when you buy a tyre, lubricant, adhesive, paint, computer or any one of hundreds of other products, there’s a good chance that some of its component materials will have been produced using revolutionary chemical theories and processes invented in Australia by research teams led by Professors…
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.
Coral, Cancer Capsules & Conservation Three $20,000 L’Oréal Australia For Women in Science Fellowships for 2011 were awarded to talented Australian women in science on Tuesday, 23 August 2011. L’Oréal this year awards three remarkable young…