This week Tim Thwaites has been talking on radio about:
1. It’s a wiggly, wiggly universe—An Australian survey, known as WiggleZ, now close to completion, is generating a map of the universe as it existed six billion years. The project aims [...]
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This week Tim Thwaites has been talking on radio about:
1. Geoengineering can’t please everyone—Attempting to counter global warming by injecting sunlight-reflecting particles into the upper atmosphere may not be the quick fix that advocates believe it could be. Computer models [...]
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Previously unknown species of naturally-occurring bacteria have the potential to save the alumina and aluminium industries millions of dollars while helping to reduce their impact on the environment, microbiologist Naomi McSweeney has found in a collaborative project between Alcoa, CSIRO and the University of Western Australia.
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Listen to Tim Thwaites every second Tuesday on Tony Delroy’s Nightlife, ABC Local Radio nationwide after the 11 pm news. This week he’s talking about:
1. Microbe genes could curb livestock burps. New Zealand scientists have published the genome of a bacterium that produces methane in livestock. This should help researchers identify and target the genes whose [...]
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You may not be able to squeeze blood out of a stone but—by applying the right amount of ultrasound during processing—Jianhua (Jason) Du and colleagues from the University of South Australia have been able to squeeze a considerable amount of fresh water from mining waste.
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What does food do – time to move beyond the glycaemic index
It’s time to get smarter about food labelling according to Dr John Monro, speaking at the international chemistry conference in Melbourne this week.
“We need to know not just what is in the food, but what the food is going to do in our bodies,” [...]
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Prof Colin Raston and his colleagues in the Centre for Strategic Nano-Fabrication at the University of Western Australia are setting about cleaning up the world—and chemical industry in particular—through developing a suite of technologies to enable continuous, rather than batch, processing.
“We’re working at getting rid of the round-bottom glass in the laboratory, and the array [...]
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More than 30,000 East African farmers are using plants to protect their corn (maize) crops from insect and weed attack. The crop protection strategy was developed by Kenyan and UK scientists.
Termed “Push-Pull’, it relies on strategically deploying attractive and repellent plants in alternating rows to control the growth of African witchweed and stemborer insects. These [...]
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Mobile phones, air traffic control, smart grids, and online gaming are all critically dependent on accurate timing across the internet. That’s why it’s so important that University of Melbourne electronic engineer Julien Ridoux and his colleagues have developed a completely new, free, software clock accurate to within a millionth of a second.
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IUPAC Symposium 4B – Smart Spray Application and Modelling Technologies Wednesday 4pm
David Hunter, Becker Underwood Australasia
Victorian farmers are in a phony war right now – but in spring the invasion will come. We’re likely to see the worst locust plague for 30 years. David Hunter will tell the conference how plagues occur and what can [...]
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