In this collection of stories you’ll hear about the next generation of ideas and discoveries that will change the world: from big ecology to quantum computing; from vast water reserves to tracking typhoid; from growing new limbs to watching serial killer cells.
We’ve included winners of many of Australia’s science prizes: people whose discoveries and inventions are transforming mining, medicine, maths and more.
And we’ve included the best young researchers from Fresh Science. Watch these young achievers in coming years.
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Contents
Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science
- Terry Speed: Fighting cancer by the numbers
- Angela Moles: Rocking the ecological boat
- Andrea Morello: Quantum computing becomes more than just spin
- Motor races and science labs fuel interest in science
- A new job for glass fibres
- How bugs stick to our stomachs
Inspiring Australia
Astronomy
- Monster black holes
- Australia’s newest radio telescope
- Clearing up space debris
- Testing spacecraft indoors
For Women in Science
- Serial killers of the immune system
- How India and Australia split
- Tracking typhoid
- Colour-changing dragons
A healthy start to life
- Glucosamine and fertility
- Inheriting obesity
- Preterm birth linked to teenagers’ school angst
- Gastro vaccines rolling out
Protecting and using marine resources
- Clearing harms the Reef
- Ocean acidification threatens sea creatures
- Finding fresh water under the sea
Copying nature
Regenerative medicine
Eureka Prizes
- Mapping with Zebedee
- Mystery gut immune cells
- Native shrubs good for sheep and the environment
- A bug that stops dengue
- Walking with Duchenne muscular dystrophy
- The dingo: from sinner to saviour
- Mill mapper keeps mines working
- Here be dragons: winning shots of sea life
- Providing the very stuff of protection
Highlights from state and Academy awards 2013
- Bubbles capture minerals and toxic algae
- Shine on you tiny diamond
- A malaria vaccine target
- Mundane passion anchors $20 billion industry
- Starch to save young lives
- Putting off joint replacement
- Australian networking, diagnosing TB, protecting warship – Clunies Ross award winners
- Metal medicines, big data, modelling metamorphosis and more – Academy recognition
Fresh Science