Physics: a fundamental force for future security
Michelle Simmons, David Jamieson & Chennupati Jagadishand
What is matter? What is energy? What holds matter together? How do the various constituents of the universe interact at the most basic level? Where does the Earth sit in ...
Prenatal testing
Susan Walker & Lisa Hui
In the course of a generation, the information available to families regarding the health and future of their unborn children has been transformed. In the era of our parents and ...
Proteins to plastics: chemistry as a dynamic discipline
Andrew Holmes, Mark Buntine & Jenny Martin
Chemistry is the most central of scientific disciplines and under- pins the physical, material and biological world. Opportunities are abundant in the field of chemistry, as most major advances take ...
Science, technology and wellbeing
Ian Lowe
Scientific understanding of the world has enabled us to improve material wellbeing on a scale that previous generations would find difficult to believe. For all but the last few decades, ...
Scientific Leadership in the Modern World
Edward Byrne
One of the basic human drives is to find out more about ourselves and the world in which we live. This desire for knowledge goes back to the birth of ...
Statistics is more than a numbers game — it underpins all sciences
Terry Speed, John Henstridge & David Warton
We are all familiar with many instances of statistics in everyday life: the statistics of sport, weather, population, the stock market ... the sort of thing that might appear in ...
Brian Schmidt, Rachel Webster & Tamara Davis
To reach for the stars, Australia must focus on astronomy
Every decade, Australian astronomers get together to create a plan for our community. This is an exercise we are currently undertaking for release in 2015 ...
Michelle Simmons, David Jamieson & Chennupati Jagadishand
Physics: a fundamental force for future security
What is matter? What is energy? What holds matter together? How do the various constituents of the universe interact at the most basic level? Where ...
Stephen J. Simpson
A tale of swarms, cannibals, ageing and human obesity
At first sight these seem like very strange bedfellows. In this chapter, I will explain how seeking to understand swarming in locusts has led to ...
Brett Solomon & Lindsey Andersen
Artificial intelligence and human rights in Australia
Although artificial intelligence is already mainstream, experts have only recently started looking into the short- and long-term impacts of AI on human rights. Recently in ...
Terry Speed, John Henstridge & David Warton
Statistics is more than a numbers game — it underpins all sciences
We are all familiar with many instances of statistics in everyday life: the statistics of sport, weather, population, the stock market ... the sort of ...
Zornitza Stark & Kathryn North
The future of genetics
It took over 10 years and US$3 billion to sequence the first human genome. Next generation sequencing (NGS) technolo- gies have made it possible to ...