Category: News
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The CO2 Bargaining Business
The Bargaining Table Does anyone think this 2-degree goal is achievable? You know, that we can keep global temperatures from increasing 2°C? It’s time to admit that it cannot be. It’s time to set new goals. Goals not based on single-digit bargaining at the next climate convention. Some of the world’s nations agreed to limiting…
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Weekly Science Picks
Science Sunday! My first since the death of Google Reader. Let’s dive straight in. Viet Le, the scientific amasian, has a nice piece on genetically modified crops. Perhaps the time has come to have another debate on the issue of GMOs, too often dismissed out of hand. An “Acceptable” GMO? “So, this brings me back…
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A Robot Revolution: When Robots Come to Life
A day at the museum has come to life. Our latest robots are roaming the galleries of the National Museum of Australia. They’re using high speed broadband to allow remote visitors to control their own view of museum exhibits while interacting with a museum educator. The stars of Museum Robot project, B1 and B2, will use…
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CSIRO and the ANU launch biodiversity research centre
An initiative that will help Australia harness cutting-edge advances in biological sciences to inform better environmental management decision making will be announced on Wednesday 3 April at the official launch of the Centre for Biodiversity Analysis, Canberra. The Centre is a joint initiative established in partnership with CSIRO and the Australian National University (ANU). “The Centre…
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Groundbreaking healthcare conference to take place in Brussels
The first ‘World Research and Innovation Congress – Pioneers in Healthcare’ conference takes place at Steigenberger Grandhotel, Brussels on the 5 and 6 June, 2013. The two day event will bring together over 500 of the world’s top scientific health professionals to discuss future challenges and strategies on the key issues facing health research today.…
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DNA technology set to speed up species discovery
Scientists from CSIRO and the University of Western Australia have teamed up with Kimberley Traditional Owners to test a new molecular technique that has the potential to revolutionise the discovery of new species, particularly those living in remote and poorly studied parts of the world. Working in the virtually inaccessible rainforest vine thickets of Australia’s…
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Weekly Science Picks
Science Sunday! Our recurring collection of some of the week’s blogs and science articles that you may have missed. What a week! So much science! Let’s start with mosquitoes…. The beat the mosquito’s heart didn’t miss… Frankly I’ve not given much thought to the heartbeat of mosquitoes. I’m usually much more worried that mine will…
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Weekly Science Picks
Ahhh, the end of the week again. It seems that every time it’s my turn to give the weekly science picks, it’s been an interesting week in science. This leads me to believe that every week is an interesting week in science! Amongst other things, this week was the birthday of Albert Einstein – March…
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Weekly Science Picks
Women. This is the theme of this edition of Weekly Science Picks. Yesterday, in case you missed it, was International Women’s Day. And it is important to note the achievements of women in careers such as teaching, neuroscience and engineering because women are still in a tightly contested race with the male counterpart. But who…
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The Story of a River
Every now and then you do a lesson that sticks. ‘The Story of a River’ is a simple interactive demonstration lesson, yet it provides a provocative view on environmentalism and sustainable practices. The original version “Who Polluted the Potomac” from the Alice Ferguson Foundation, USA, has been adapted numerous times. In the original, the story…
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Science Expo: Enrich, Empower, Explore
The Science Expo Youth Empowerment Group (SEYEG) is a student run, non-profit organization which aims to connect youth to innovators and enrichment opportunities in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). SEYEG was founded by five students who met at the Canada-Wide Science Fair in 2009. In 2010, the first Science Expo, a 2-hour conference held…
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Weekly Science Picks
Welcome to some of this week’s best science happenings on the interweb space! The first question is simple: can you name a female statistician? Epidemiologista answers its own question with a nice profile of Dr Janet Lane-Claypon: epidemiologic pioneer. Can you name a female statistician? “We read about statistics every day: be it the predicted…
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Science Weekly Picks
Being responsible for picking the week’s most interesting science stories is a fun and fascinating challenge. It pushes to me to look beyond my own interests and explore what others find compelling. So I trust you find my ‘science making news’ selection of interest and delight; explore the quantum, human, off-world and mathematical highs of…
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Rock lobster fishery balances lifestyle and livelihood
CSIRO researchers are studying the Torres Strait tropical rock lobster fishery to develop a scientific approach to integrate cultural factors into natural resource management. “Fisheries management traditionally involves balancing commercial gain and sustainability, but for Indigenous communities cultural and lifestyle factors can be just as important and these factors are more difficult to measure,” says…