The Academy has awarded the 2018 Douglas and Lola Douglas Scholarship to Dr Shamil Cooray for his research on gestational diabetes.
Professor Xi-Cheng Zhang, the M. Parker Givens Professor at the Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester in the US, gave three Selby public lectures in December.
Changes to the Antarctic ice sheet was the focus of a conference that brought together 30 experts last November in Hobart.
The Academy’s Canberra speaker series for 2018, the Science of Us, is investigating the science of our lives and our health from the moment of conception through to death, focusing on how science is helping to resolve important issues at various life stages.
A recent article in the Academy’s history of science journal, Historical Records of Australian Science, reveals surprising insights about the involvement of the Academy’s founding President, Sir Mark Oliphant, in the development of the atomic bomb by the Allies during WWII.
Eight rising stars of Australian science have been selected by the Australian Academy of Science and the Council for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings to attend a highly prestigious annual gathering of Nobel Laureates and promising young scientists from around the world.
Eight rising stars of Australian science have been selected by the Australian Academy of Science and the Council for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings to attend a highly prestigious annual gathering of Nobel Laureates and promising young scientists from around the world.
The Australian Academy of Science has joined Commonwealth of Nations science leaders from around the globe to call on the Commonwealth Heads of Government to use the best available science to guide action on climate change.
The Australian Academy of Science has joined Commonwealth of Nations science leaders from around the globe to call on the Commonwealth Heads of Government to use the best available science to guide action on climate change.
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