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PRESS RELEASE FROM NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
Thursday 21 March 2013
Singapore’s science output has grown faster in 2012 than any of the major science-producing countries in the Asia-Pacific region, according to the Nature Publishing Index (NPI) Asia-Pacific 2012. The NPI 2012 Asia-Pacific has been released as a supplement to Nature today. [Read more…] about Singapore science output surges
PRESS RELEASE FROM NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
Thursday 21 March 2013
Yonsei University topped the national institutional research rankings in South Korea for the first time, according to the Nature Publishing Index (NPI) Asia-Pacific 2012. Yonsei overtook traditional leader Seoul National University which took second place. The Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) completes the top three. The NPI Asia-Pacific 2012 has been released as a supplement to Nature today. It measures the output of research articles from nations and institutes published in the 18 Nature-branded primary research journals over the calendar year. [Read more…] about Yonsei University takes number one spot
We look forward to reading about the work of the 2013 nominees and we’ll notify applicants of the results by email during the week starting Monday 25 March 2013.
Successful applicants will participate in the state finals which will be held around Australia in April and May. Final dates will be announced shortly.
We’re looking for the best and brightest early-career researchers who have made a peer reviewed discovery and received little or no media attention.
Successful applicants will participate in the Fresh Science 2013 state finals, a one-day communication boot camp for early-career researchers where they will learn essential communication skills.
Applicants can be researching in any field of science – from medicine to mathematics, from environmental science to computer science.
Plus, the 12 top candidates from the state finals will then be flown to Melbourne in July for the Fresh Science national final.
The whole process is online via SurveyMonkey, and the young researchers are expected to fill in their own application.
Read the full selection criteria online here then apply online through Survey Monkey here.
The Fresh Science state finals consist of a one-day media boot camp for young scientists.
Fresh Science helps young researchers develop expertise in presenting their ideas clearly to a general audience and to the media.
Fresh Science also assists the media to identify and publish accurate stories about Australian science. It demonstrates that science in Australia is exciting, vibrant and successful. Fresh Science encourages and provides recognition for Australia’s best young scientists and engineers.
Below is further information on how and why to nominate. You can read more at www.freshscience.org.au
Now in its 16th year, Fresh Science is supported by the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science, Research and Tertiary Education through the Inspiring Australia initiative, CSL Limited and Museum Victoria.
Download high-resolution photos of Dr Kathryn Davidson, the National Stem Cell Foundation’s first grant recipient, Dr Alice Pébay, Associate Investigator at Stem Cells Australia, and Dr Graeme Blackman OAM, Chairman of the National Stem Cell Foundation of Australia.
[Read more…] about Photos for the launch of the National Stem Cell Foundation of Australia
Termites and ants are stockpiling gold in their mounds, new CSIRO research has found.
Australia’s smallest and most numerous mining prospectors can show us where new gold deposits are.
Posted on behalf of the University of New South Wales
It’s not every day that school students get to present their science project to a major scientific conference, and rarer still to receive a prize for it from a Nobel Laureate.
That’s the happy experience today for a team of four Year 11 students from Gosford High School, who have won a national competition conducted by UNSW and the Australian Institute of Physics.
[Read more…] about Nobel laureate presents school science project
Australian researchers are taking the twinkle out of stars for the world’s biggest light telescope, the Giant Magellan Telescope in Chile.
And a new optical fibre – which can only be made in Australia – could detect corrosion in the metal of aircraft bodies, ships and bridges.
Hear about these stories and more at the national physics and optics congress in Sydney – AIP/ACOFT 2012, at the University of New South Wales, Kensington this week.
[Read more…] about Goodbye twinkle, hello stars – physics in Sydney
A new, cheaper way to deliver accurate time across Australia: instead of using hydrogen maser clocks costing hundreds of thousands of dollars we can bounce signals through the national’s optical fibre network according to physics leaders speaking today and tomorrow.
Also today at the national physics congress in Sydney, meet the man whose job it is to figure out how to build the NBN.
And hear about the magic of thermal plasmas, from safer arc welding to saving the ozone layer.
[Read more…] about Accurate time with light and designing the NBN
Some recent projects: ASTRO 3D, MindEar, Cortical Labs (Dishbrain), Illumina, ABC, World Mining Congress 2023.