Snails and Snot
After only two days at sea, and while most people are still finding their sea legs, a team of scientists from the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre (ACE CRC), University of Tasmania and Australian National University, has begun a relentless schedule of trawling for snails.
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Advice to Government
Using science to change the way we learn
Earlier this year (March 2010), an Expert Working Group presented to the Prime Minister and other members of the Prime Minister’s Science Engineering and Innovation Council (PMSEIC) a report on the science of learning titled: Transforming Learning and the Transmission of Knowledge: Preparing a learning society for the future.
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Snails and Snot
After only two days at sea, and while most people are still finding their sea legs, a team of scientists from the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre (ACE CRC), University of Tasmania and Australian National University, has begun a relentless schedule of trawling for snails.
- Since 1998, global temperatures have dropped. Is this a sign that global warming has stopped?
- Which plants store more carbon in Australia: forests or grasses?
Health & Well-being
Sport and science: Winning athletes gold
When an Olympic athlete gets hurt training, one of the best recovery tools is a simple chemical compound found all around us – water.
- Epidemics in a changing world
- Australia’s Chief Scientist congratulates Australian Nobel Prize winner Elizabeth Blackburn
Kids, Parents & Teachers
Australian students go for gold in maths and science
Australia’s best high school students in maths and science will be going for gold as they compete at the International Science and Mathematical Olympiads next month.
- Do the sums: Be a champion
- Science for kids - How jelly beans get their flavour from the power of the sun
Land, Food and Resources
How science facilitates productivity in the agricultural sector
The big issues in the agricultural sector can only be addressed by multi-disciplined research teams working with industry to better understand the critical connections between productivity and sustainability.
More storiesOur Global Science
Scientists speaking on nanotechnology: Dr Åsa Jämting
Dr Åsa Jämting discusses the development of new laboratory at the National Measurement Institute to set the standard of measurement for particles that are only billionths of a metre in size.
- 2009 Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science Winners
- The Royal Institution of Australia opens in Adelaide
Science & The Arts
Beauty of Biology
Gone are the days of paintbrushes, pencils and pottery- an exhibition in northern NSW heralds digital microscopy as the newest form of art.
More storiesTechnology
Space capsule bites the asteroid dust
Space physicists can add another feather to their cap following the retrieval of the Hayabusa space capsule – the first unmanned space craft to land on an asteroid and return to Earth.
- Metrology Research in Physics, Chemistry and Biology: How the National Measurement Institute assists Australian Industries
- Happy birthday Hubble Space Telescope!
