Author: Editorial Board
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BioGrid Australia links data to show bowel cancer screening is making impact on patient survival rate
BioGrid Australia links data to show bowel cancer screening is making impact on patient survival rate. Victorian researchers have been able to confirm that the national bowel cancer screening program is making a major impact on patient survival. Using data made available through BioGrid Australia, the researchers have shown that patients diagnosed as a result…
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The Higgs boson does exist: New particle observed at 125 GeV
Australian researchers helped design and build parts of the ATLAS detector and helped analyse the results. Researchers using two huge detectors at the Large Hadron Collider announced the results of their searches at a joint scientific seminar in Geneva and Melbourne, where the International Conference on High Energy Physics is being held. In a joint…
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The EMBO Meeting 2012 – Call for Participation
EARLY REGISTRATION & ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: 12 JUNE 2012 ON-LINE REGISTRATION: 4 SEPTEMBER 2012 UPDATE: Late abstract deadline 12 August 14:00 CEST (Berlin) SUBMIT ABSTRACT | REGISTER http://www.the-embo-meeting.org/ This annual conference attracts 1,500 scientists working in the life sciences. Featuring an impressive line-up of more than 120 world-class scientific…
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EduWiki 2012: Wikipedia as an educational resource, now and in the future
What do Dictator novel, Implicit self-esteem and Nuclear energy policy in the United States have in common? Each of these Wikipedia articles has been improved by university students in exchange for course credit. Wikipedia educational assignments – where improving the free online encyclopaedia is integral to the course – already happen in many universities in the USA, Canada and other countries.…
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Wikimedia Commons – Images of the Year Announced
Wikimedia Commons have just announced their three best images from 2011. Commons is an online repository of media freely licensed and available for anyone to use and repurpose. Every year the Commons community highlights the best media submitted over the course of the previous 12 months, in what has become the Picture of the Year Contest. This…
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ScienceOnline 2013 – be a part of the program, and participate!
ScienceOnline2013 conference will take place Jan. 31-Feb. 2 in the McKimmon Conference Center on the campus of N.C. State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. For those not familiar with ScienceOnline conferences, ScienceOnline started in 2007 as a one-day conference with 135 people who wanted to explore the world of science blogging. Today, ScienceOnline has grown…
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Bike Brisbane: Brisbane winners announcement
On Thursday, the Lord Mayor announced the winners of the hack::Brisbane competition at a presentation in New Farm Park. The winners of the hack::Brisbane competition are:
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Australian scientists win European Inventor Award 2012
· European Patent Office honours outstanding inventors with European Inventor Award in Copenhagen · Australian prize winners Dr. John O’ Sullivan, Dr. Terence Percival, Graham Daniels, Diethelm Ostry and John Deane paved the way for today’s Wi-Fi technology · EPO President Benoît Battistelli: “The work completed by Dr. O’Sullivan and his team perfectly demonstrates how a…
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The transit of Venus 2012 as seen from Cairns (Australia)
Credits: GLORIA Project (www.gloria-project.eu)
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2012 Victoria Fellowships Open for Expanded Prestigious Science Awards
Minister for Innovation, Services and Small Business Louise Asher today announced applications are now open for the 2012 Victoria Prize for Science and Innovation, and the 2012 Victoria Fellowships. Ms Asher said the Victorian Coalition Government was committed to supporting discovery and development in research and innovation, and had doubled the number of Victoria Prize…
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Victoria’s Leading Postgraduate Health and Medical Researchers Recognised
Premier Ted Baillieu and Minister for Health David Davis today announced that Dr Stefan Gehrig has been awarded the prestigious Premier‟s Award for Health and Medical Research for 2012. The Premier‟s Award for Health and Medical Research recognises and honours the achievements of Victoria‟s early career health and medical researchers. Mr Baillieu said Dr Gehrig won…
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Measuring Network Performance with M-Lab
Measurement Lab is an open platform for researchers to deploy Internet measurement tools. By enhancing Internet transparency, M-Lab helps sustain a healthy, innovative Internet. What this explanatory video to learn why M-Lab is important to researchers, network engineers and policy makers. M-Lab is a collaborative effort founded in 2009 by Googler Vint Cerf and a number of…
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Dragon’s Rendez-Vous Day
For those who may not be familiar, The SpaceX Dragon commercial cargo craft is developed, and built by the American company Space Exploration Technologies, SpaceX, as it is more commonly known. You may find very informative and interesting article on SpaceX Dragon written by Kevin Orrman-Rossiter. Today SpaceX #Dragon is proceeding toward rendezvous with #ISS. The International Space Station mission management team completed a…
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Call for Participation – PLNOG 2012 conference
This year in Krakow, a real Polish Golden Autumn will accompany the next meeting of all operators, deployment companies, content providers and network administrators at the 9th edition of the PLNOG conference. In response to the expectations and suggestions of attendees of previous editions, lectures again will be divided into four independent paths with an…