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Applications for the 68th Lindau Nobel Laureates Meeting with Nobel Laureates from the field of physiology or medicine are now open. Applications for Lindau close 3 October 2017.

A workshop convened in India late last year by the Australian, Indian and UK governments has led to the publication of cross-national recommendations for achieving gender equality in STEMM. The recommendations are designed to progress work done individually and collectively by the partner nations and recognise the diversity and inclusion benefits to all.

Can exposure to relaxing music help in the recovery of patients with heart failure? That is the question Dr Samia Toukhsati, Cardiology Research Fellow at Austin Health, is asking as part of an Australian Academy of Science Australia–India EMCR Fellowship.

Academy Fellow Dr Graham Farquhar AO FAA FRS has become the first Australian to win a Kyoto Prize—the most prestigious international award for fields not traditionally honoured with a Nobel Prize.

“The Paris Accord in 2015 was a landmark in global acceptance of the need to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

Three Academy Fellows have been elected to the Royal Society of London.

The Academy has just admitted two internationally renowned scientists as Corresponding Members, Dr Raghunath Mashelkar (India) and Professor Rudiger Wehner (Switzerland).

Distinguished Professor Chennupati Jagadish AC FAA FTSE has been elected an Honorary Fellow of the Indian Academy of Science, one of only two elected in 2017.

The Academy has just announced the four Australian scientists travelling to India in 2017 to undertake ground-breaking research at some of that country's leading research institutions.