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Professor Barry Ninham AO FAA has been named the 2016 recipient of the Matthew Flinders Medal and lecture.
Three leading researchers in space horticulture presented at the Shine Dome to a sold out crowd.
The 12th Annual Australia–China Symposium begins in Hefei.
The 2016 Lloyd Rees Lecture will be presented by Professor Keith Nugent FAA, internationally recognised for his outstanding contributions to chemical physics.
Nine million old car tyres are piled in Australia’s biggest tyre dump, in Stawell, Victoria – just one of many such tyre piles around the world. But when she looks at these massive waste repositories, Professor Veena Shajwalla doesn’t see landfill: she sees elements. Raw materials that can be transformed into structural steel to build green buildings.
Life is a strange subject, but it affects us all—one Australian is born every 1.45 minutes, while one dies every 3.25 minutes. We’re good at talking about the beginnings of life, but pretty awkward when it comes to facing the end.
© 2016 Australian Academy of Science
