From altered bank cheques to false signatures, document forgery is big business—costing Australians millions of dollars every year. Researchers at Curtin University, working with forensic experts from Document Examination Solutions in Perth, developed a new way to spot handwritten forgeries based on subtle changes in ink colour. “Using precise colour measurements of ink on paper,…
Fresh Science in the pub in Sydney, Adelaide, Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane… and for the first time ever in Canberra. Come enjoy a beer and hear 10 “Fresh” early-career researchers share the stories in their science. Last year we heard about: how feeding chickens whole grain can help feed 100 million people, how sea snakes find…
Adding whole grains to chicken food boosts meat production efficiency and could improve global food security. It’s also likely to be good for backyard chickens, says Sydney scientist Amy Moss. Amy’s research at the University of Sydney’s Poultry Research Foundation, found that replacing some of the ground grain in chickens’ feed with whole grain both…
A Perth treatment could significantly reduce the damage done to brain cells following a stroke. Diego Milani from the University of Notre Dame Australia and the Perron Institute has been testing a new compound that has been shown to reduce damage in the brain after a stroke. The compound is made up of 18 molecules…
Fresh Science is on hold for 2022. We will be back in 2023.
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Fresh Science is a national competition and training program helping early-career researchers find and share their stories of discovery.
We take young researchers with no media experience and help them become media spokespeople for their science, and reach stakeholders in government and industry.
Fresh Science gives finalists a taste of life in the limelight, with a day of media training, a day of training in stakeholder engagement, and a public event in their home state.
Alumni of the program include Professor Allan Duffy and Dr Niraj Lal.
Read some of the fresh science we discovered in 2021 here.
