Australian orchids’ sneaky sex tricks: floral arms race seduces insects
Posted in: 2007, NSWAustralian orchids are engaged in an arms race, using sensory overload to seduce male insects.
Australian orchids are engaged in an arms race, using sensory overload to seduce male insects.
How mini-earthquakes and tornados could one day be saving lives Monash University engineer Leslie Yeo is using tiny earthquakes and tornados to assist the detection of biohazards and germ warfare. He and collaborator James Friend at the Micro/Nanophysics Research Laboratory hope to integrate their technology into an inexpensive, credit-card-sized sensor within five to ten years.
Synchrotron light delivers Nature paper for young scientist Natalie Borg and colleagues from Monash and Melbourne universities have shown for the first time how the body’s immune defence system can be triggered by fats, sugars and other biological compounds, not just by proteins. The research, published recently in Nature, opens the way to potential new…
The cleaning power of sound waves on the back of a truck. A young researcher in Sydney is cleaning up contaminated soil by blasting it with ultrasound. Andrea Sosa Pintos from CSIRO Industrial Physics has shown that toxic and carcinogenic pollutants, such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), can be decomposed quickly,…
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I never had so much confidence to go out in public and talk about my research and would have never done if I had not been part of this workshop. They were also very patient and explained the concepts so clearly. They have definitely been great initiators to take science to the society and have changed my view on science journalism for good. Thanks a lot for all the efforts and training.
Shwathy Ramesan, RMIT, 2019 VIC Fresh Scientist
Shwathy Ramesan, RMIT, 2019 VIC Fresh Scientist
Laurence Luu, UNSW, 2019 NSW Fresh Science
Laurence Luu, UNSW, 2019 NSW Fresh Science
Alba Claramunt, UoWA, 2019 WA Fresh Scientist
Alba Claramunt, UoWA, 2019 WA Fresh Scientist
Deepti Aggarwal, RMIT, VIC 2017 Fresh Scientist (winner)
Deepti Aggarwal, RMIT, VIC 2017 Fresh Scientist (winner)
Dayna Cenin, UWA, 2019 WA Fresh Scientist
Dayna Cenin, UWA, 2019 WA Fresh Scientist
Anonymous, 2019 Fresh Scientist
Anonymous, 2019 Fresh Scientist
Sara Polanco, University of Sydney, NSW 2019 Fresh Scientist
Sara Polanco, University of Sydney, NSW 2019 Fresh Scientist