A church service is probably the last thing you would expect to kick off a year-long celebration of evolution-but that's exactly what's happening at St Paul's Anglican Cathedral in Melbourne at 2 pm …
Eat your way through 4 billion years of evolution
Melbourne will host a unique dinner to celebrate Charles Darwin's 200th birthday on 12 February at Melbourne Museum. Guests will eat their way through the evolutionary tree - from primordial soup, …
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Media alert: a year of stars and 400,000 galaxies
The Australian Launch of the International Year of Astronomy at Questacon in Canberra Australia's Chief Scientist Professor Penny Sackett launched the 2009 International of Astronomy on 28 January …
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From menace to Mexico, physics education gets real and revealing crystal structures
Australian technology that saves the ozone layer and reduces greenhouse gases 3 December 2008 Three medals will be presented to leading scientists in Adelaide tonight. Three CSIRO scientists …
Giant ice cubes; giant telescopes; and pulsars
Astronomy at the Australian Institute of Physics 18th National Congress in Adelaide The discoverer of pulsars: Jocelyn Bell Burnell The UK's Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered pulsars by chance when …
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The world’s largest solar plant, the sun and climate change, the physics of violins and the Large Hadron Collider
Stories from the Australian Institute of Physics 18th National Congress in Adelaide The nation's physicists are meeting in Adelaide this week. Some of the topics on the agenda are: Solar …