What's fresh in science this year?
Cold tuna tummies,
imaging whiplash, aerodynamic octopusies, owl forensics, return of
the bilby, volcanic extinctions, imaginary friends, life in fools
gold and under the ice, defogging the universe, woolly sunscreen and
more...
Meet top young
scientists as they reveal their latest research and discoveries.
They will be talking
down at the pub Monday 1 June, to school students in regional
Victoria Wednesday 3 June, and to students at
Melbourne Museum Thursday 4 June.
Here are the details:
Fresh Science
at the Redback
Meet this year's Fresh Scientists over a beer as they reveal
their discoveries down at the pub. Triple R's Dr Andi will
challenge them to present their research in less than a
minute and in verse.
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Monday
1 June 6.30pm for 7pm start
The Redback Brewery,
75 Flemington Road, North Melbourne
No cost,
drinks and meals at bar prices
RSVP to
sarah@freshscience.org
Fresh Science school forums
Hear from a team of young scientists as they each talk
briefly about their latest research and discoveries in a
free one-hour forum chaired by a journalist.
Combine the
forum with a movie at IMAX Melbourne; or one of the
many self-guided programs on topics such as bugs, dinosaurs,
marine life, a tall forest environment or the human body and
mind (details
http://museumvictoria.com.au/melbournemuseum/Education/
).
Aimed at Years 9&10, although Years 11
and 12 are welcome, as are upper level Year 8.
Fresh Science in regional Victoria
Hear from a team of young scientists as they each talk briefly
about their latest research and discoveries in a free one-hour
forum chaired by a journalist.
Aimed at
Years 9&10, although Years 11 and 12 are welcome, as are upper
level Year 8.
In Bendigo - combine the one hour forum
with a visit to the Discovery Centre (entry charge $5), or a
planetarium show (http://www.discovery.asn.au/).
Fresh
Science is a national competition that identifies new and
interesting research being done by early-career scientists around
the country and releases their stories to the media.
Sixteen scientists are selected from around 80 nominations. They
are flown to Melbourne for a day of media training after which they present their work to the media, school students, the general
public, scientists, government and industry over the course of three
days in what's described by some as a boot camp in science communication.
Previous Fresh Scientists have attracted national and
international interest resulting in hundreds of media stories, including
national television news. Details of previous winners, their press
releases and media coverage can be seen on this website.
Now
in its twelfth year, Fresh Science is a national event, which brings
together scientists, the media and the public. It is designed to:
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Enhance
reporting of Australian science;
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Highlight
and encourage debate on the role of science in Australian society;
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Provide
role models for the next generation of Australian scientists.
The
Fresh Scientists will also have the chance to win a one-year
subscription to
New Scientist
magazine and a one-week internship with
The
Australian newspaper.
Fresh Science 2009 will be
held in
Melbourne from Monday 1 to Thursday 4 June 2009.
Stories will be released to the media
during and after the event. Fresh Scientists will be expected
to be available for media interviews in the weeks immediately
following the event.
They may also have the opportunity to present
in their home state during
National Science Week.
Nominations for 2009 are now
closed.
You can read about the
2009 selection
criteria here.
If you would like to receive notification when the call for nominations for Fresh Science 2010
opens, please
email us.
The original ScienceNOW!
organising committee was concerned about the lack of an effective national forum
to bring together scientists, the media and the general public, so, in 1997,
they started one. It was based on a couple of
simple premises: Australia needed to improve and expand its science reporting. It also needed a
way for its best young scientists to present
their work before an audience much broader than their peers.
The founding
chairman of ScienceNOW! was Ian Anderson: science writer,
journalist and
the first Australasian editor of New Scientist.
Read more at
In memoriam.
What sort of discoveries do we hear about? Here are some of the
research stories from
2008:
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Silicon back in the race for quantum computers
- Susan Angus, The University of Melbourne
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Cleaner flights, smaller footprint
- Sameer Alam, the University of New South Wales
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Does my asinina look big in these genes?
- Tim Lucas, Queensland Department of Primary Industries and
Fisheries
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Turning on the atom laser
- Nick Robins,
Australian National University
-
Big babies and small families make evolutionary sense
- Daniel Falster, Macquarie
University
-
Clue to anti-male gene action:
an extra gene can stop boys being boys
- Louisa
Ludbrook, Prince Henry’s Institute
-
Child crash test dummies not
crashworthy?
- Elizabeth Clarke, Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute
-
How
brains go from digital to analogue
- Maarten Kole, Australian
National University
-
Change your sidestep, save your
knee
-
Alasdair
Dempsey, The University of Western Australia
-
Ocean
warming on the rise
- Catia Domingues, CSIRO Wealth from Oceans Flagship
-
Bone
breaking tests
-
Andrew Briggs,
University of Melbourne
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Man tests own tears: New treatments to result
-
Chendur Palaniappan,
University of Western Sydney
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Fin tips reveal the secret of underwater
flight: Ten times faster than an Olympic swimmer
-
Chris
Fulton, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
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The
future of foot-and-mouth disease control: new test makes vaccines an option
- Janine
Muller, CSIRO’s Australian Animal Health Laboratory
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Soy milk shouldn’t put you off
-
Jennifer Koplin,
Murdoch Children’s Research Institute
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