This collection features more than 70 stories and celebrates the best of the past year’s Australian science: from supercharged rice to feed the world; halving brain scarring from strokes; what unboiling an egg means for pharmaceuticals; using maths to save seagrass sanctuaries; and printed medical tools from the scientists who brought us the world’s first printed jet engine.
We’ve also included the winners of many of Australia’s science prizes, and we’ve got the best young researchers from Fresh Science.
Read the individual stories here, or view them together as a PDF here along with our earlier editions.
We’ve already promoted the collection at the AAAS in Washington, and over the coming months we will distribute 15,000 copies to journalists, embassies, schools, MPs and others in Australia and around the world. Read the full distribution here.
And we’re sharing all the stories on Facebook, Instagram, andTwitter via @AusSciStories.
Please feel free to use the stories for your own social media, website and publications. Everything is available for reuse under a Creative Commons licence.
Contents
- Flying whale sharks
- Geoffrey Rush talks stars
- Fighting stroke damage
- Saving penguins with a wave of the wand
- Unboiling an egg
- Foldable batteries and scaffolds for muscle
- Renewable fuels turn over a new artificial leaf
- Printing a cartilage repair kit
- From jet engines to personalised surgical tools
- Seeing through bushfire smoke
- Reading the whispers of MH370
- Cool paint for Aussie warships
- Head to tail: the molecules that tell you how to grow a backbone
- Making blood on demand
- Under pressure: stable storage for radioactive waste
- World’s oldest gem leading us to hidden treasures
- More accurate readings of the heart
- Distilling value from industrial waste
- Big data gives Australians a sporting chance
- Eye, repair yourself
- Expanding treatments for the ‘Australian’ cancer
- Supercharged rice to feed the world
- How we imagine the future
- Add colour for 10 times more gas
- The water beneath our feet
- Micro plastic is unfantastic
- Deadly animals helping us understand pain
- Can algae fuel our future?
- Zika testing with a smartphone
- The ageing brain can repair itself
- Taking autoimmune disease personally
- Qubit by qubit: the quantum computing race continues
- A path to large-scale manufacturing
- Build it and they will come – chip design creates computer blueprint
- Mission accomplished: seek and don’t destroy quantum information
- Shedding ‘spooky’ light on unbreakable security
- Widening the net on Motor Neurone Disease
- A big deal for small science
- USA backs Australian qubit research
- Nano diamonds: not a cancer’s best friend
It’s not always 42: new maths for the big questions
- Saving seagrass sanctuaries
- Smart credit limits save money for customers and banks
- Tracking dust
- Tracking fish with parasites and maths
- Traffic matrices for more reliable digital networks
When earth, wind, and sea meet
- The answers are blowing in the wind
- Making waves in a wind tunnel
- Making jet engines (and power generation) more efficient
Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science
- Feeding the world, and asking where the wind went
- Trillions of bubbles at work for Australia
- Making polymers with light
- Where are the plants and animals we want to conserve, and the invaders we want to control?
- Improved primary science teaching at no extra cost
- Bringing students to science
Australia Indonesia collaborations
- Fishing for food security
- Putting a window and lasers in a ship’s hull to improve efficiency
- Making efficient port to keep cities connected
- Designing the coolest and most efficient tropical houses
- Collaborating to combat killers
Building an emotionally healthy community
- Genetics guiding anxiety treatment
- Changing the minds of dementia patients
- Helping patients cope with cancer
- Cool Kids goes bush – helping rural children with anxiety
- Hoarding: why is it hard to part with stuff?
Science Prizes
- Eureka Prizes
- State Awards
- Australian Academy of Science Medals 2015
- Early career awards
- ATSE Clunies Ross Medals
- Fresh Science