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The 7th Annual MIT Energy Conference held March 16-17 in Boston, MA, was an all-around inspiring event filled with conversations of hot topic scientific research and intense policy discussion. It was impressive, considering this event is entirely planned and executed by the student body, with well over 500 in attendance. From the scientific prowess of [...]

I long for the death of skinny jeans. Those in the fashion business have to keep up to date with an ever-evolving scene. Trends and themes change from year to year, and for those that count, looking “last year” is the worst crime to commit. With a fashion industry always trying to stay at the [...]

We hear…but do we comprehend? What connection does our brain make to statements transmitted through our auditory canal such as global warming is increasing at 0.13°C per year? Or there are 495 dead zones covering 95,000 square miles of our world’s oceans as a result of increased runoff from agriculture? We see…but are those images [...]

Each year the two-day February Fourier Talks, organized by the Norbert Wiener Center in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Maryland, College Park, feature a diverse array of invited talks in the field of Harmonic Analysis and Applications. A single track of presentations from top academic, industry, and government researchers is scheduled, allowing ample time for interaction with [...]

(For those drawn here from blog posts and other social media sites, Australian Science is a science and technology magazine and blogging network covering new technologies, web, education, scientific materials, and other related fields.) Starting this March, we are expanding our blogging and network activities to cover more scientific fields. We already have contributors world [...]

The round for the 2012 Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science – Australia’s most prestigious science awards, is now open for nominations.The Prizes are a key element of the Government’s national initiative, the Inspiring Australia, to inspire a sense of national pride by the public recognition and reward of the achievements of Australians in the sciences. They [...]

Open access databases, archives, repositories are hopefully present, for almost a decade, in technology, education, science, and the iron gates systems are slowly behind us; we can say that the technology, science, and academia are striving to be more and more open. There is an international movement that uses the Internet to throw open the [...]

Together with being considered as one of the most beautiful countries in the world, New Zealand is also special in being one of the youngest. It was discovered by Europeans as the last huge land mass, and today, this amazing and unspoiled country has many reminders of its rich Maori and Colonial history. Basics: New [...]

This year the World Wide Web conference (or WWW12) is taking place in Europe (Lyon, France) . It was first conceived as an idea in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in Geneva while the first conference of the series was held in 1994. Ever since  then World Wide Webn has became an annual event changing location between North America, [...]

Cattle flatulence is known to contain methane gas. However, until recently there was no way to measure the release of methane gas from cattle. Scientists wanted to devise a way which could be used to measure the methane gas release without interfering with the regular activities of the herd. A recent collaborative research study conducted [...]

Euroscience was born 14 years ago. It was the time when a lot of debate about the future of science in Europe was taking place. Euroscience founders were visionaries in identifying that Europe was in need of a grassroots organization, totally independent of the political power; an organisation of individuals that could speak up. From [...]

All the passengers always opt for the travelling options which are fast, safe and affordable. Among all means of transport travelling by plane usually embodies all these qualities. For those who are not dependent on luxurious ways of travelling there are low cost carriers. Basics: A low-cost carrier or low-cost airline (also known as a no-frills, discount or budget carrier or airline) is an airline that [...]

Until recently, it was unknown within the scientific community whether or not there was a master “on/off switch” for the human immune system. Australian scientists, however, have been able to demonstrate with a Supermicroscope the exact molecular “switch” that kicks T-cells into action. T-cells are the front-line troops that give the signal to our immune [...]

Looking back twenty years, I recall what seems like a simpler time. Then the big debate in astronomy was whether the universe was 10 or 20 billion years old, and I thought we would know the answer by 2011. It might, however, be “none of the above”. According to NASA’s WMAP satellite, the universe is [...]