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Healthy Indoor Air Quality: ABC TV News Breakfast interview transcript-thumbnail

Healthy Indoor Air Quality: ABC TV News Breakfast interview transcript

Australia to lead first-ever United Nations indoor air quality global pledge -thumbnail

Australia to lead first-ever United Nations indoor air quality global pledge

The Australian Academy of Science and Burnet Institute are leading global efforts at the United Nations, to declare healthy indoor air a human right.

Sleep, sensors and science: 2025 Australia-Scotland Fund recipients announced-thumbnail

Sleep, sensors and science: 2025 Australia-Scotland Fund recipients announced

The Australian Academy of Science is pleased to announce the recipients of the inaugural round of the Australia-Scotland Fund.

Australian researcher internationally recognised for global supply chain research-thumbnail

Australian researcher internationally recognised for global supply chain research

A sustainability researcher nominated by the Australian Academy of Science has been awarded an international science prize worth A$1.5 million at a ceremony in Switzerland.

Academy partnership with CSIRO looks to the future of scientific publishing-thumbnail

Academy partnership with CSIRO looks to the future of scientific publishing

Five emerging scientists receive 2025 J G Russell Award -thumbnail

Five emerging scientists receive 2025 J G Russell Award

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.

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Leading scientists recognised by Academy for excellence in Antarctic research

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.

2025 WH Gladstones research project explores behavioural responses to climate change-thumbnail

2025 WH Gladstones research project explores behavioural responses to climate change

2025 Max Day awardees to investigate ecosystem productivity and microplastics-thumbnail

2025 Max Day awardees to investigate ecosystem productivity and microplastics

The Australian Academy of Science has announced Rebecca Greening and Dr Nina Wootton from the University of Adelaide as the recipients of this year’s Max Day Environmental Science Fellowship Award.