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Australia’s National Champion Associate Professor Arunima Mali was named one of three international champions of the 2025 Frontiers Planet Prize, a prestigious award recognising research with the most promising potential to keep humanity within planetary boundaries.

Julian Worricke: With American researchers and students looking at leaving the country to study abroad, there are a whole host of international higher education centres who are desperate to entice them. This week the Australian Academy of Science, for example, announced it was launching a Global Talent Attraction Program and said the government needed to act swiftly to attract the smartest minds leaving the United States. Shortly I will speak to the head of the Australian Academy of Science about that ambition and how they will compete in a global market.

The Australian Academy of Science is excited to announce the establishment of a Global Talent Attraction Program.

Two distinguished researchers have been recognised with 2025 Academy honorific awards for their groundbreaking contributions to breast cancer research.

Five researchers have been awarded funding from the Australian Academy of Science to support research in fields as varied as rare-earth minerals and microplastics.

Two distinguished researchers in the field of Antarctic science and conservation have been recognised as 2025 honorific award recipients by the Australian Academy of Science.

The Australian Academy of Science today recognises 22 scientists from across the country in its annual honorific awards, which celebrate the achievements of leading minds and emerging scientific stars working to solve humanity’s greatest challenges.

A first-of-its-kind online course, ‘Genomics Our Way – An Introduction to Genomics Research with Indigenous Australians’, has been developed through the Australian Alliance for Indigenous Genomics (ALIGN), led by Alex Brown (Yuin), Professor of Indigenous Genomics at The Kids Research Institute Australia and the Australian National University. It is supported by the Australian Academy of Science’s Theo Murphy Initiative, the University of Adelaide and the OCHRe network.

A researcher seeking to reduce waste and improve patient care in hospital intensive care units (ICUs) is this year’s recipient of the Douglas and Lola Douglas Scholarship in Medical Science from the Australian Academy of Science.