Photos from the famous July 16, 1969 Apollo 11 mission, which landed man on the moon for the first time. The astronauts spent 8 days in space from liftoff to …
Today is national Jeans for Genes Day
Today, Friday August 1 is National Jeans for Genes Day in Australia, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. The event is a great cause to help find cures for …
A closeup photo of the Sun
A closeup photo by Stefan Seip of a solar prominence (a cloud of solar gas held just above the surface by the Sun’s magnetic field). The photo was taken on …
The Haplotype Map
Gene Expression, a weblog on Genetics and it’s connection to cultural & social issues, has posted a full copy of the interesting Technology Review article from last month titled, Genes, …
Catalyst – The Genius of Junk (DNA)
Here is the transcript of last weeks (Thurs 10 July) ABC’s Catalyst science programme, Genius of Junk, which covered the patenting of Junk DNA. The television programme commented on Dr. …
Beagle 2 takes off. Next stop… Mars
So we are off to Mars once again, this time with the British led Beagle2 effort to land on Mars as part of the European Space Agency’s Mars Express Mission …
Photos from the Annular Eclipse
The BBC posts some readers photos of the annular solar eclipse which was seen from the north-west of Scotland, a large area of Europe, the Middle East and some areas …
In the Matrix – An essay by Professor Martin Reese
I came across today an interesting essay by Cosmologist and Astrophysicist, Sir Martin Reese, Royal Society Professor at Cambridge University. His essay titled, In The Matrix, looks at his present …
Textbooks re-written with Scientific discovery of 4 new Kingdoms
ABC Science News reports that 4 new Kingdoms of Life have been discovered by researchers in the high alpine environment of Colorado, USA rewritting History & Textbooks of Science and …
The Genome of the SARS virus
Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Science Centre have released a copy of the SARS Genome for you to download and look at. There are also several interesting links to SARS related …
New Scientist Sydney and Melbourne debates
There are two debates happening in Sydney and Melbourne on Thursday 15 May in Sydney and Friday 16 May in Melbourne, as part of the New Scientist Human Nature debates. …
Black Hole discovery could change scientific idea of Spiral Galaxies
Prof. Alex Filippenko of the University of California at Berkeley and Dr. Luis Ho of the Carnegie Observatories have announced that a Massive Black Hole has been found which could …
Lag between the Eye and Brain
Dr Karl mentioned on Triple J today that the time it takes for an image to be captured by our eyes and sent to the brain can be measured in …
Scientists complete the Human genome
Scientists have finally completed the Human Genome (also known as the genetic blueprint) three years after a working draft was completed and 2 years ahead of it predicted schedule. BBC …
BBC Learning celebrates DNA Discovery with webcast
BBC Learning are producing a live webcast on Friday 25th April to coincide with the 50 year anniversary of the Francis Crick and James Watson discovery of the DNA Double …