Welcome to my monthly email to people around the country with an interest in physics. It contains news and events for February 2010 and beyond.
The AIP year always starts with our AGM and Council.
The AIP AGM will be held in the Hercus Lecture Theatre, University of Melbourne at 6 pm on Monday 8 February, followed [...]
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It’s Australia Day tomorrow, 26 January. So here are a few recent Australian science stories to catch your attention, along with a story on the potential failure of the Copenhagen forest fund, and the dates – just announced – for the 7th World Conference of Science Journalists in Cairo next year.
The stories include:
how a search [...]
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Welcome to a new year of new science. Through the year I’ll drop you an email on breaking science stories and a heads-up on coming events.
Will the $US 3.5 billion forest fund announced in Copenhagen work? Tomorrow in London Australian scientist Phil Shearman and his colleagues release a report on the world’s forests and climate [...]
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Friday, 22 JANUARY 2010
written by and issued on behalf of Burness Communications
Citing Collapse of Copenhagen Climate Process, Study Projects Increased Conflict and Speculation in Tropical Forests
LONDON (22 January 2010)—As environmental and political leaders struggle to determine how to move forward from the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, a new report by [...]
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Results from Journey of Your Genes Public Swabbing Event Revealed
MELBOURNE (3 Dec, 2009), The Governor of Victoria, His Excellency Prof. David de Kretser, AC, shares the same Y chromosome ‘haplogroup’ with World Vision’s Tim Costello with both men’s Genographic Project DNA test showing they are R1b – migrating out of Africa around 45,000 years ago [...]
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Welcome to my monthly email to people around the country with an interest in physics – with news and events for December 2009 and January 2010.
This month we’re exploring quantum matter in Canberra and Melbourne with Austrian Rudolf Grimm, sub-atomic physics in Adelaide; a teachers’ seminar in Tassie, and the director of the SKA project, [...]
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One hundred and fifty years ago Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, revealing his theory of evolution. It was a revolutionary idea that underpins all of modern biology.
His great, great grandson Chris Darwin lives in Australia and has the following comments.
On evolution and climate change
‘Just as 19th Century England was in denial that [...]
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Welcome to my November bulletin for the International Year of Astronomy in Australia. This month sees a particularly interesting mix of events, from a “Dance Your PhD” workshop (to be videoed for the web), to a symposium on Indigenous Astronomy and a talk on the Antikythera mechanism, the most sophisticated instrument we know of from [...]
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Researchers at the University of New South Wales have improved the aerodynamics of aircraft by putting rows of tiny synthetic jets along the wings of aeroplanes —much like the suck and blow jets octopuses use to move through the water.
The models tested demonstrated smoothing of the air flow over the wing section. This would infer [...]
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In this bulletin:
2010 Laureates announced
Two former Laureates win Nobel Prizes in Medicine and Chemistry
Prime Minister recognises L’Oréal Fellow with physical sciences prize
Updates from our 2007 and 2008 Australian Fellows – Tara Telescope in business, and more
Applying for Australian Fellowships for 2010
International Laureates announced
The winners of the 2010 L’ORÉAL-UNESCO Awards were announced on 14 October 2009.
The [...]
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