Welcome to our Stories of Australian Science 2011 collection. Among the 50 stories presented here, you’ll catch up with past winners of the Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science, as well as the brilliant young scientists of the L’Oréal Australia For Women in Science Fellowships and of Fresh Science. This is our third collection of Australian … Continue reading Stories of Australian Science 2011
Welcome to our Stories of Australian Science 2011 collection. We’ve put it together to give journalists around the world a taste of the breadth and depth of Australian science and to introduce some interesting people and potential stories. Among the 50 stories presented below, you’ll catch up with past winners of the Prime Minister’s Prizes … Continue reading Contents Science 2011
Explore Australian science Science drives innovation and economic, social and cultural change. It’s at the heart of the innovations that transform the human condition: vaccines, smart phones, flight and clean energy. It tells us how our world is changing, and what we can do about it, if we choose to. It reveals where we, our … Continue reading
Why do we get fat? What’s the link between obesity, diabetes and hypertension? Can we break the link? These are critical questions around the world. Prof. Michael Cowley may have the answers.
He’s shown how our brains manage our consumption and storage of fat and sugar and how that can go wrong. He’s created a biotech company that’s trialling four obesity treatments.
Michael has shown unequivocally that losing weight isn’t just a matter of will power.
Every new technology brings opportunities and threats. Nanotechnology is no exception. It has the potential to create new materials that will dramatically improve drug delivery, medical diagnostics, clean and efficient energy, computing and more. But nanoparticles could also have significant health and environmental impacts.
CSIRO physicist Dr Amanda Barnard is making the particles in the virtual world and testing how they interact in various environments before they get made in the real world.
Meeting science journalists and television producers around the world, we’ve discovered that they have a healthy appetite for Australian science and Australian wine. So we’ve put together this publication to give journalists and others with an interest in science a taste of what’s happening Down Under. For this collection we invited Australian research organisations to … Continue reading Stories of Australian Science 2010