The Australian Academy of Science champions, celebrates and supports excellence in Australian science, promotes international scientific engagement, builds public awareness and understanding of science and provides independent, authoritative and influential scientific advice.
PhD student Mortaza Rezae from Curtin University is the winner of the second Australian Falling Walls Lab, hosted by the Australian Academy of Science.
Australian Academy of Science Fellow Professor Justin Gooding has been awarded the 2017 University of Technology Sydney Eureka Prize for Outstanding Mentor of Young Researchers.
The Academy has produced a special online edition of the Academy’s journal ‘Historical Records of Australian Science’.
Antarctica represents a unique and powerful natural laboratory for science and international collaboration. Antarctic scientists are constantly forging new frontiers in understanding the drivers and feedbacks in the Earth’s climate systems, the evolution of the subglacial mountains and lakes, the adaptations and vulnerabilities of polar ecosystems, and even the origins of life, Earth and the universe.
Take a journey with the Australian Academy of Science and see how science has twisted and warped what was once the stuff of make-believe to give us the polymers and plastics that now shape our world.
Dr Maynard-Casely will take us on a journey to get to know the planets of our solar system more intimately through understanding their varied and downright dangerous insides.
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