Climate Change: bridging scientific knowledge and public policy
Universities Australia National Policy Forum
Mural Hall, Australian Parliament House, Thursday 18 March 2010
Universities Australia Climate Forum
Climate Change: bridging scientific knowledge and public policy
Thursday 18 March 2010
The Mural Hall, Parliament House, Canberra, 8.30am – 12.30pm
Universities Australia is the peak body of all Australia’s universities and is committed to engaging with Parliament on issues of great national significance, and to informing social, political and commercial responses to those issues.
Fellowship winners make cancer their focus
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 […]
The Diamond Age
Move aside bronze, iron, silicon
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.
Where do nanoparticles go?
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.
World’s tiniest scales
Measuring the contents of a single cell: the nano-machinery of life
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 million times faster
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.
Scientists relax – Australia loves us
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.
Genographic ‘snapshot’ provides insights into Melbourne’s genetic melting pot
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
Chris Darwin on the 150th anniversary of evolution
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.
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