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The Australian Academy of Science welcomes the release of the Australian Government’s National Digital Research Infrastructure Strategy.

The latest edition of the Academy’s journal, Historical Records of Australian Science, is devoted to the history of plant pathology in Australia. Despite the challenges of academic isolation and lack of communication, early plant pathologists flourished and made many world-first discoveries that assisted Australian farmers to overcome challenges in crop growth.

Emeritus Professor Kaye Stacey has been awarded the 2024 Emma Castelnuovo Award in recognition of her more than 40 years of research-based design, development and implementation of innovative, influential work in the practice of mathematics education.

The Australian Academy of Science is providing access to its history of science journal free of charge to researchers in lower income countries.

The release of the National Science Statement and the National Science and Research Priorities that support it signal an important first step to focus and scale Australia’s science and research activity, which is needed to meet our national and global challenges.

The Australian Academy of Science has over the past months contributed to discussions on urgent global challenges via the Science20, a working group comprising national learned academies of the Group of 20 (G20).

The Academy’s Matthew Flinders Medal and Lecture recognises scientific research of the highest standing in the physical sciences and honours the contributions of Australia’s early scientific researchers.

Eleven of Australia’s brightest early-career scientists have attended the 73rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, this year dedicated to physics.

The Academy welcomes the Australian Government’s recognition of Australia’s RNA potential in the blueprint released this week, as an important step in building Australia’s RNA capacity.