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Left to right: a person with brown hair takes a swab from a small frog, a person stands in the forest

Using smell to disguise vulnerable plants, and protecting frogs from fire: 2023 Max Day awards

Applications for the 2024 awards will open in February 2023.

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Remembering Dr Alec Costin, the father of Australian high mountain ecology

Academy Fellow Dr Alec Costin devoted his life to learning about and protecting Australia’s unique ecosystems. He was an international authority on the ecology of high mountain and high latitude ecosystems, and made major contributions to the flora of the Snowy Mountains area.

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Champion of research integrity honoured with new award

Professor David Vaux AO FAA FAHMS, who has championed research integrity in Australia, has been recognised as the inaugural recipient of a new Academy award.

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Highlights from Science at the Shine Dome 2022

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Best of Australian science returns to Canberra

The best of Australian science will be celebrated and recognised at Science at the Shine Dome this week and for the first time since 2019, the Australian Academy of Science’s annual flagship event will be held in-person in Canberra.

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Academy returns to historic headquarters

Ian Potter House, the headquarters of the Fellows and staff of the Australian Academy of Science, has officially reopened 989 days after it was extensively damaged during Canberra’s 2020 hailstorm.

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Three Aussie innovators to compete in Berlin for Falling Walls Lab 2022

Two researchers awarded Mike Smith Student Prize for insightful essays

Two researchers awarded Mike Smith Student Prize for insightful essays

Explorations of the history of disease and of nuclear colonisation have earned two researchers the 2021–22 Mike Smith Student Prize for History of Australian Science or Australian Environmental History.

Academy welcomes STEM Equity Monitor report

Academy welcomes STEM Equity Monitor report

The Australian Academy of Science says the results of the latest STEM Equity Monitor reinforce the need for stronger action to remove barriers preventing gender equity and greater diversity in STEM.