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Climate Change: bridging scientific knowledge and public policy
Thursday 18 March 2010
The Mural Hall, Parliament House, Canberra, 8.30am – 12.30pm
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Two outstanding female scientists at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have been awarded research fellowships worth $1.75 million to continue their cancer research.
The inaugural five-year Cory Fellowship, sponsored by the institute, has been awarded to Dr Clare Scott and the inaugural five-year Dyson Fellowship, sponsored by the Dyson Bequest, has been awarded to Dr […]
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.
Never before have scientists made such a proactive effort to study the safety of an emerging technology as they are currently doing with nanotechnology, says Dr Mark Wiesner from Duke University.
Scientists are developing a tiny set of scales that will be capable of weighing each of the 100 million or so different proteins in a human cell.
A radical new kind of computer memory will be a million times faster than existing hard-drives, a leading expert in the field of nanotechnology announced today in Sydney.
It will use nanotechnology to manipulate data like cars on tiny racetracks.
And Australians are feeling good about new technologies including nanotechnology.
Most Australians (84%) feel positive that science and technology are improving society. These positive perceptions have been strongly held over the last five years.
Results from Journey of Your Genes Public Swabbing Event Revealed
MELBOURNE (3 Dec, 2009), The Governor of Victoria, His Excellency Prof. David de Kretser, AC, shares the same Y chromosome ‘haplogroup’ with World Vision’s Tim Costello with both men’s Genographic Project DNA test showing they are R1b – migrating out of Africa around 45,000 years ago and eventually living in Europe (70% of men from southern England belong to this group).
Their ‘deep ancestry’ Genographic Project results form part of an interesting ‘snapshot’ looking at Melbourne’s diversity [Read more…] about Genographic ‘snapshot’ provides insights into Melbourne’s genetic melting pot
One hundred and fifty years ago Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, revealing his theory of evolution. It was a revolutionary idea that underpins all of modern biology.
His great, great grandson Chris Darwin lives in Australia and has the following comments.
[Read more…] about Chris Darwin on the 150th anniversary of evolution
Welcome to my November bulletin for the International Year of Astronomy in Australia. This month sees a particularly interesting mix of events, from a “Dance Your PhD” workshop (to be videoed for the web), to a symposium on Indigenous Astronomy and a talk on the Antikythera mechanism, the most sophisticated instrument we know of from the ancient world.
Some recent projects: ASTRO 3D, MindEar, Cortical Labs (Dishbrain), Illumina, ABC, World Mining Congress 2023.