The climate is changing: are we adapting? A panel discussion. With 2014 officially declared the hottest year on record we are once again reminded that climate change is not only something…
Beating cyber criminals with quantum solutions
As hackers get more sophisticated in their cyber crime efforts, we need to look to new technology to make our systems more secure, and potentially unhackable. For some types of…
Noble journey from refugee to Nobel contender
From a Vietnamese refugee huddled with more than 400 frightened others as a flimsy craft took them across the South China Sea, to a potential Nobel Prize laureate for Chemistry,…
Image-conscious biology
Professor Vicky Avery from the Eskitis Institute discusses the beauty of her work. Transcript: “So the focus of my laboratory is primarily drug discovery both basic and applied research and the disease areas…
Why people deny the obvious?
“Despite the fact that we live in an ‘information age’, and are finding out more and more about the universe, some people seem determined to reject knowledge. For example, in…
Down syndrome theory on Hobbit species doesn’t hold to scrutiny
Claims that bones found in an Indonesian cave are not the remains of a new species of extinct hominin but more likely modern humans suffering from a chromosomal disorder have…
Household pollutants detected around Antarctic stations
Australian Antarctic stations are rethinking their operational practices after the discovery that common household pollutants are dispersing from Casey station into the local Antarctic environment. Research published in Environmental Science and…
Job survival in the age of robots and intelligent machines
In Australia, there are reports that up to half a million of existing jobs could be taken over by robotics or machines run by artificial intelligence. So with smarter computers taking on…
Adam Spencer @ the Cutting Edge Science Conference
Adam Spencer, self proclaimed lifelong numbers nerd, is presenting a keynote address for Griffith University Cutting Edge Science Conference and we have limited space available for the public. As part of the…
Ancient DNA sheds light on the origin of Europeans
Much of the evidence of where the first Europeans came from was originally derived from comparisons of skulls but our work looking at ancient DNA is revealing new insight, with…