Saving riesling from climate change, matchmaking for city plants and insects, and using electronic gloves to transfer knowledge from surgeons to students—just a taste of the Fresh Science we’ll be exploring this year. Thanks to all our university and museum partners around the country who ensure events run in their state. Thank you also to…
Protecting Tiwi wildlife is a hollow argument Climbing trees reveals a housing shortage for tree-rats and other endangered animals. Estimates of tree hollows – which form the houses of several endangered species in northern Australia – are much too high, researchers at Charles Darwin University in the Northern Territory have found. And the discovery could…
Shortfin mako shark. Credit: Mark Conlin Redrawing the lines of our marine parks for sharks Small changes to marine parks could make a big difference to mako sharks and many other ocean shark species, says UWA researcher Charlotte Birkmanis, lead author of a paper published in Global Ecology and Conservation today. Sharks are the peak…
Image credit: Curtin University Do you know exactly where you are? We all rely on GPS to tell us where we are and where we’re going. The US government’s global network of 30+ satellites guides planes, ships, cars, tractors and much more. The latest GPS systems can provide mm- to cm-accuracy using advanced equipment and…
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.
