Sources of the energetic form of light known as X-rays are developing at an enormous rate. Indeed, by one measure, they are improving at a rate that exceeds computing’s famous Moore’s Law.
One Australian is born every 1.45 minutes; one dies every 3.25 minutes. We’re good at talking about the beginnings of life, but pretty awkward when it comes to facing the end.
Professor Murray Hitzman is the recipient of the 2016 Haddon Forrester King Medal and Lecture and will be presenting this, one of a series of Haddon Forrester King lectures across Australia.
The Haddon Forrester King Medal and lecture is one of the Australian Academy of Science’s prestigious career awards for life-long achievement and outstanding contribution to science.
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The second event in our ‘life & death’ series looks at the seductive world of sex – from the genes that determine the kind of sex we like, to new approaches in contraception, and how our relationship with sexually transmitted infections is changing.
Professor Ursula Keller is the 2015 Frew Fellow and in addition to providing the Few Lecture at the 2015 Australasian Conference on Optics, Lasers and Spectroscopy (AZCOP) in Adelaide the Frew Fellow is also invited to visit universities and research institutions in a number of Australian cities. As part of this visit Professor Keller has offered to undertake public lectures.
Professor Ursula Keller is the 2015 Frew Fellow and in addition to providing the Few Lecture at the 2015 Australasian Conference on Optics, Lasers and Spectroscopy (AZCOP) in Adelaide the Frew Fellow is also invited to visit universities and research institutions in a number of Australian cities. As part of this visit Professor Keller has offered to undertake public lectures.
For more than 30 years, NASA has been working on how to grow crops in space, to support human life in off Earth.
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.
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