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News & Views Index |
A "Bright Idea" for Upping Solar Power on the Home Front and Beyond. 31/08/13 [More]
Slowing in Global Warming Resulting from Pacific Ocean Cooling. 30/08/13
...the annual-mean global temperature has not risen in the twenty-first century... [More]
AMSI Releases Its Election Priorities for the Mathematical Sciences. 29/08/13 [More]
Nature Reports Australia's Record Rains Lowered Sea Level. 29/08/13
The mean global sea level fell by 7 mm this past year. [More]
Carl Wieman Takes his Crusade to Further Science Undergraduate Education to Stanford. 29/08/13 [More]
A Short Note from Australia's Chief Scientist: New Knowledge, New Ideas and Creativity. 29/08/13
But are either of the major political parties listening? [More]
Science and Technology Australia Asks Labor, Coalition and the Greens "What's Your Vision?" 27/08/13
We asked Federal Politicians from a range of parties to supply their vision in response to a set of core questions devised by STA members and the science & technology sector. Responses were received from the Coalition, Greens and ALP, and are presented as a comparative table. [More]
Study Offers Clues on 20th Century Global Warming Wobbles. 27/08/13
We already know from direct observations of the power coming from the sun that it has contributed nothing to global warming since 1979... [More]
Active Learning Classrooms Really Are a Worthwhile Investment. 23/08/13 [More]
Science's CEO Tells It Like It Is. 23/08/13
[US] science... budget has failed to keep pace with inflation for at least the past 4 years... [More]
Group of Eight Releases its Pre-Election Submission to the Coalition. 19/08/13
"[T]here will need to be a shift in approaches not only to regulation, but also to policy formulation." [More]
CEO Warwick Anderson: How We Deal With Alleged Research Misconduct at the NHMRC. 16/08/13 [More]
Peter Pockley, Dead at 78. 15/08/13
Not just Australian science journalism but Australian Science are the poorer for his loss. [More]
Australia's Chief Scientist Follows UP His July 31 Position Paper on Directing STEM with a Speech on Interaction with China. 15/08/13
Professor Chubb opines that by 2020 China's output of scientific publications will have surpassed that of the US. [More]
Phase 1 of Investigation of "Workplace Conduct in CSIRO. 14/08/13
It flags a simple question: Just how do you define major? [More]
NHMRC to Webcast Grant Review Panel Briefing. 11/08/13
On Monday (August 12, 2013) the CEO of the National Health and Research Council (NHMRC), will host an hour long webcast of the briefing for the Grant Review Panel members. [More]
Australia's National Science Week August 10 -18. 08/08/13
There are a number of different ways individuals can join in by finding near-by events. [More]
Nominations for NSW Science & Engineering Awards 2013 Solicited. 08/08/13 [More]
A Review of Higher Education Regulation. 06/08/13
The siren call of micromanagement results in the ideal of reduction being more honoured in the breach than in the observance. [More]
AMSI Declares it's Time to Stem the Tide of Science Complacency. 03/08/13
AMSI: In 2010 52.8% of high school teachers teaching maths were not qualified to do so. [More]
US President Nominates Astrophysicist France Córdova to Lead the $7-Billion NSF. 02/08/13
Former NASA administrator Daniel Goldin: "She's a rock star." [More]
"Quantifying the Influence of Climate on Human Conflict". 02/08/13
We find strong causal evidence linking climatic events to human conflict across a range of spatial and temporal scales and across all major regions of the world. [More]
Australia's Chief Scientist Launches His Position Paper: "STEM in the National Interest: A Strategic Approach. 01/08/13
A national strategy for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). [More]
New South Wales Coal Seam Gas Review's Initial Report: July 2013. 01/08/13
It makes a number of recommendations to the O'Farrell Government holding its "feet to the fire".[More]