Clunies Ross Awards Dr Elaine Saunders has made premium hearing aids more affordable and easier to use. She and her team have built on Australia’s bionic ear technologies to create a system where you can: test your hearing online; buy your hearing aid online and receive it set up ready for you; and adjust the … Continue reading Australian Science Prizes 2016
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The NISEP program has helped almost 1000 Indigenous school children enter leadership roles. The National Indigenous Science Education Program (NISEP), based at the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Sydney’s Macquarie University, won the inaugural the Eureka Prize for STEM Inclusion at the 2019 Australian Museum Eureka Prizes. The awards were held in Sydney on … Continue reading Pioneering collaboration between Indigenous communities and Macquarie wins Eureka Prize for STEM inclusion
Collaboration investigates the link between changing sea levels, global warming and the health of marine wetlands. Carbon dioxide capture by coastal ecosystems operates in direct relation to the speed of sea level rise. That was the conclusion of extensive research conducted by a team of scientists from Macquarie University, University of Wollongong and ANSTO – … Continue reading Blue Carbon Horizons team wins Eureka Prize for Environmental Research
Discovering our changing planet: a perfect France–Australia partnership Professor Kurt Lambeck is one of Australia’s most eminent scientists—a geophysicist who revealed how the Earth changes shape and how these changes are tied to sea levels, the movement of continents, and the orbits of satellites. Vital to his career have been French collaborations that now span … Continue reading Planetary changes
Making motorcycle clothing safer, a robotic arm for stroke rehab, prospecting for gold using prehistoric volcanoes—these are some of the highlights of the past year featured in Stories of Australian Science 2017. Australian scientists are making silk-derived implants to fix damaged eardrums, and working to stop people going into flood waters. They’re flying unmanned drones … Continue reading Stories of Australian Science 2017
The three nations that share the island of Borneo— Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei—could retain half the land as forest, provide adequate habitat for the orangutan and Bornean elephant, and achieve an opportunity cost saving of over $50 billion. The findings, by a research team led by The University of Queensland with members in Indonesia, Malaysia, … Continue reading Conservation that works for governments, communities, and orangutans
Life on land depends on plants. And every plant balances opening its pores to let in carbon dioxide for photosynthesis; and closing its pores to retain water. Graham Farquhar’s work has transformed our understanding of photosynthesis. His models of plant biophysics have been used to understand cells, whole plants, whole forests, and to create new … Continue reading Feeding the world, and asking where the wind went
Polymers are being used for non-stick coatings, anti-fouling technology, precision drug delivery, medical diagnosis, imaging, and many other applications. Associate Professor Cyrille Boyer’s ideas are built on the revolutionary RAFT techniques (a technique to precisely control how small molecules are linked together to form large polymer chains) for which Professor David Solomon and Dr Ezio Rizzardo … Continue reading Making polymers with light
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 … Continue reading Stories of Australian Science 2016
