This week we’re at the 3rd World Congress of Asian Psychiatry.
Visit the Congress media pages here: www.scienceinpublic.com.au/wcap
And the Congress pages at http://www2.kenes.com/wcap/Pages/Home.aspx
This week we’re at the 3rd World Congress of Asian Psychiatry.
Visit the Congress media pages here: www.scienceinpublic.com.au/wcap
And the Congress pages at http://www2.kenes.com/wcap/Pages/Home.aspx
Nanotechnologies are changing our world, soon they’ll be transforming our bodies.
Free public forum, Oceans Bar, Crown Plaza Hotel, Coogee
This Thursday 14 July 2011 from 6 pm. [Read more…] about Humanity + – a free public forum on nanotechnologies and their implications
The work should lead to a better understanding of autoimmune conditions, such as diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis, she says, and may even provide new ways to target treatments. [Read more…] about Multi-layered armour protects body against immune failure
A new technology to stop falls before they happen could helping the elderly stay in their own homes longer
Researchers at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) have developed a simple way of predicting the likelihood of an elderly person falling in the near future, allowing action to reduce the chances of it happening. [Read more…] about You’re going to fall over soon
What sawfish really do with their saw
Scientists thought that sawfish used their saw to probe the sea bottom for food. But a Cairns researcher has found that these large (5 metres or more) and endangered fish actually use the saw to locate and dismember free-swimming fish – using a sixth sense that detects electric fields. She’s in Melbourne this week as a winner of Fresh Science. [Read more…] about Samurai of the sea
Written by and posted on behalf of Tony Hill, IPv6Now.
Yesterday the world trialled the ‘new Internet’, the new address system that will open up the future of the Internet allowing you to have an address for every device in the home – your phone, TV, baby monitor, computer, and, with smart labels, even your wine bottles. But will it also break your Internet connection? [Read more…] about Did the internet break yesterday
Schools, Google and Facebook testing the new Internet on ‘World IPv6 Day’
The world is running out of Internet addresses. A new system of addresses will fix that and allow you to have an address for every device in the home – your phone, TV, baby monitor, computer, and, with smart labels, even your wine bottles. But will it also break your Internet connection?
Find out tomorrow, 8 June, 2011, when Google, Facebook, Bing, Yahoo and many others turn on their new future-proofed websites using the new address system called IPv6 (Internet protocol version six).
[Read more…] about Will the internet work for you on Wednesday?
Thank-you to all those who took the time to apply for the fellowships. The three $20,000 Fellowships are intended to help early-career women scientists consolidate their careers and rise to leadership positions in science. The Fellowships are awarded to women who have completed their PhD in the past five years – allowance is made for […]
The next generation of hearing aids could be made in Melbourne thanks to a Victorian government grant that will fast-track the prototyping of Australian-designed hearing aids.
The $50,000 small technology grant will fund Australia Hears to use RMIT’s rapid prototyping facilities to test new hearing aid designs. [Read more…] about Making hearing aids in Melbourne
Melbourne researchers have invented a small, smart, self-managed hearing aid that outperforms most conventional hearing aids for less than half the price.
It uses technology first developed for Australia’s bionic ear, and is so simple to set up that most users can buy one over the internet and fit it themselves. That brings the cost down to between $1,000 and $1500, or less than $3000 for a pair. [Read more…] about A hearing aid you install yourself
Some recent projects: ASTRO 3D, MindEar, Cortical Labs (Dishbrain), Illumina, ABC, World Mining Congress 2023.