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The Academy wishes to congratulate Robyn Williams FAA, who has been presented with the Lifetime of Conservation Award by the Australian Geographic Society.

The Executive Committee for the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Alumni Association in Australia has been elected.

The Australian Academy of Science wishes to congratulate all of the deserving recipients of the 2016 Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science.

Minister for Health the Hon Sussan Ley MP has today joined the presidents of the Australian Medical Association and the Australian Academy of Science, Nobel Laureate Professor Peter Doherty and paediatrician Dr Michael Freelander MP to launch The Science of Immunisation: Questions and Answers.

Members of the scientific community gathered at the Shine Dome in Canberra to celebrate the work of Professor Peter Doherty, marking the 20th anniversary of his Nobel Prize in Medicine.

Academy Fellow, Professor Michelle Simmons FAA, has been announced as the L’oreal–UNESCO Asia–Pacific Woman in Science for 2017.

The Australian Academy of Science has announced Professor Barry Ninham AO FAA as the recipient of the Matthew Flinders Award and lecture – one of Australia’s most prestigious honours for work in the physical sciences.

The Australian Academy of Science has announced Professor Barry Ninham AO FAA as the recipient of the Matthew Flinders Medal and Lecture—one of Australia’s most prestigious honours for work in the physical sciences.

For more than 30 years, NASA has been working on how to grow crops in space, to support human life in orbit or on other planets. Plants could provide not only fresh food for human space travellers, they could remove CO2 and provide oxygen in enclosed habitats, as well as turning waste water into drinking water. They can also have a positive psychological effect, enhancing the environment of small and often stark space stations.