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30 August 2007 - ONCE IN A RED MOON: a beautiful lunar eclipse
read the full story ->UNSW space scientists joined millions of people across the nation who enjoyed perfect conditions for viewing the first total lunar eclipse since 2000.


21 August 2007 - Faculty teachers honoured
read the full story ->The Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education has honoured 8 UNSW Faculty of Science staff members for their contribution to student learning.


16 August 2007 - New insight into chronic fatigue
read the full story ->Researchers at UNSW believe that blood may hold vital insights into what is happening in the brains of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS).


26 July 2007 - Great white's mighty bite to be revealed
read the full story ->Scientists using sophisticated computer software will determine the "bite force" of a great white shark trapped off the coast of Sydney, Australia.


25 July 2007 - Distant quoll could be long lost Aussie
read the full story ->Scientists say that New Guinea's bronze quoll might be an immigrant Australian that was isolated from the mainland by rising sea levels caused by global warming.


29 May 2007 - SPACE IS GETTING CROWDED . . . with new planets
read the full story ->The world's largest and most prolific team of planet hunters has announced the discovery of 28 new planets outside our solar system, raising to 236 the total number of known exoplanets.


28 May 2007 - Paul Adam recognised by award
read the full story ->The Australian Government has made one of the most prominent and distinguished members of the Faculty of Science, Associate Professor Paul Adam, an honorary member (AM) of the Order of Australia.


28 May 2007 - Bilinguals are better spellers
read the full story ->Bilingual Australians are better spellers than monolinguals but they struggle to understand some spoken English, according to the first language study of its kind.


24 May 2007 - New climate change consortium
read the full story ->Three of Australia's top universities have formed an alliance to spearhead national leadership in climate change research, education and policy.


18 May 2007 - Winning in the material world:
U Committee Prize

read the full story ->The US Navy and a London finance house have been tapping the skills of a UNSW science graduate who has just won the U Committee Prize.


14 March 2007 - Confusion over pedestrian crossings
read the full story ->Confusion about right-of-way rules could be contributing to pedestrian crashes at signal crossings, zebra crossings, pedestrian refuges and brick-paved sections of roadway


08 March 2007 - Top climate expert joins UNSW
read the full story ->Leading climate change researcher Professor Andy Pitman is to join UNSW as co-director of the new Climate Change Research centre.


08 March 2007 - MAJOR NEW CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH CENTRE
read the full story ->A major new research centre is being established at a cost of $6 million at the University of New South Wales, in what will be Australia's largest university-based climate change research group.


08 March 2007 - Mystery of east coast's big dry
read the full story ->Solving the mystery of why rainfall has declined so much in Australia's most heavily populated region - its eastern coastline - will be the focus of a major new research effort at UNSW.


18 January 2007 - TINY BONES REWRITE TEXTBOOKS:
first New Zealand land mammal fossil

read the full story ->UNSW scientists are part of a team that has discovered the first fossil of a land mammal ever found in New Zealand.


16 January 2007 - BEAUTY AND LIFE IN ANTARCTICA'S ICY DEEP
read the full story ->UNSW researchers are discovering that in the darkness beneath Antarctica's beautiful sea-ice thrives a rich flora and fauna. But what will happen when the climate changes?


11 January 2007 - FIRE IN THE SNOW: Thirsty gum trees put alpine water yields at risk
read the full story ->Climate change in the Australian alps will cause a drastic drop in water yields for the Murray River, thanks to declining snowfalls and bushfires creating large areas of water-hungry regenerating fore.....


19 December 2006 - New way to fight wrinkles
read the full story ->A new anti-aging ingredient developed by UNSW researchers is expected to be available in skin products as early as next year. Known as GGC, it is a precursor for an effective antioxidant known as glut.....


15 November 2006 - Hey dude, who stole my brain?
read the full story ->A new study finds that hormonal brain changes may explain antisocial behaviour during puberty.


14 November 2006 - Our young scientists are winners
read the full story ->UNSW research with the potential to revolutionise the storage and processing of information has earned Associate Professor Alex Hamilton the Australasian Science Prize for 2006.


06 November 2006 - GOVERNOR-GENERAL VISITS SOLAR HYDROGEN LAB
read the full story ->Australia's Governor-General, His Excellency Major General Michael Jeffery, AC, CVO, MC, and Her Excellency Mrs Marlena Jeffery have visited UNSW to learn more about our pioneering solar hydrogen rese.....


26 July 2006 - Michelle is a real "Bright Spark"
read the full story ->Professor Michelle Simmons, of the UNSW School of Physics, has been named by Cosmos magazine as one of Australia's Top Ten "Bright Sparks", a special scientific minds aged under 45.


19 July 2006 - Hotter, wetter and wilder
read the full story ->Hotter, drier, wet and wilder: forecast by climate change expert


19 July 2006 - Cheap fast way to crack genome code
read the full story ->US and Australian scientists have pioneered a new hybrid method for genomic sequencing that is faster and cheaper than current technologies.


19 July 2006 - We're lazy, scruffy and rude - but they want to be just like us
read the full story ->Intending Chines immigrants think Australians are lazy "rough diamonds", but they aspire to the same relaxed lifestyle.


29 June 2006 - Aged depression linked to brain function
read the full story ->Late-onset depression is linked to declining brain function, a new study finds.


29 June 2006 - Trial of anti-bacterial contact lens gets the nod
Biotechnology company Biosignal Ltd and the Institute for Eye Research have received ethics approval for the first human clinical trial of an antibacterial extended-wear contact lens.


15 June 2006 - Climate - not humans - killed off our animal giants
read the full story ->Australia's prehistoric megafauna were not wiped out by humans but by climate change, a new study suggests.


15 June 2006 - PUTTING BUGS TO WORK
read the full story ->Dr Bernard Hauer, a recent visiting German researcher at the School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, puts microbes to work.


23 May 2006 - EYES ON THE STARS, PRIZE IN HER HANDS
read the full story ->Tamara Davis has won the $10,000 U-Committee prize for the best thesis


11 April 2006 - Ignorance isn’t bliss, says Australian poll on knowledge of Islam and its followers
read the full story ->Only one in six Australians has a good understanding of Islam and its followers, while one-third claim complete ignorance about the religion, according to a new study published in the Journal of Islam.....


11 April 2006 - OUR WATER FUTURE IS UNDERGROUND
read the full story ->Australians consume millions of bottles of mineral water every year with barely a thought about where that water comes from: below the ground. Despite being the world's driest inhabited continent and .....


06 March 2006 - HUGE, WET AND MYSTERIOUS:
read the full story ->The vast icy ocean current that circles Antarctica is so huge that it carries 100 times more water than all the world's rivers combined, yet its influence on the world's climate is barely understood.


23 January 2006 - Tricking bugs into thinking their time is up
read the full story ->Low levels of nitric oxide gas can prevent and kill disease-causing bacteria by tricking them into thinking their time is up, according to scientists from the Environmental Biotechnology Cooperative R.....


20 January 2006 - Speed of light is slowing down – was Einstein wrong?
read the full story ->A daring and controversial scientist who says that the speed of light is slowing down will give a public lecture on Thursday evening at the University of New South Wales.


21 December 2005 - IF YOU'VE GOT IT, FLAUNT IT: how reheads top the pecking order
read the full story ->Red-headed finches dominate their black-headed and yellow-headed peers by physical aggression and by the mere fact of being red-headed, according to new research published in the Proceedings of the.....


20 October 2005 - HUMBLE YEAST SHEDS LIGHT ON PROMISING ANTI-CANCER DRUG
read the full story ->The humble yeast has revealed the molecular workings of an anti-cancer drug that stops the growth and spread of tumours in humans by starving their blood supply.


20 October 2005 - INTELLIGENT DESIGN IS NOT SCIENCE
read the full story ->In an initiative led by the the UNSW Faculty of Science, Australia's leading science and science-teaching organisations have declared an open letter their opposition to the teaching of Intelligent Dei.....


18 October 2005 - Viagra may be saving endangered species after all
read the full story ->Chinese men are selectively switching from traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) to Viagra to treat erectile dysfunction, but sticking with tradition for ailments such as arthritis, indigestion and gout,.....


13 October 2005 - AGED AREN'T RUDE: JUST UNINHIBITED
read the full story ->If you suffered from piles, would you want your friends asking about your condition in public? Most people wouldn't, yet new research suggests that the older you become the more likely you are to make.....


21 September 2005 - Climate causing acidic sea change: can CO2 burial stop it?
read the full story ->Increasing acidity of the world's oceans due to CO2 emissions will seriously affect marine organisms, according to recent British research to be detailed today by a visiting speaker at UNSW, Dr John B.....


20 September 2005 - NEW TRIGONOMETRY IS A SINE OF THE TIMES
read the full story ->A UNSW mathematician, Dr Norman Wildberger, has rewritten the arcane rules of trigonometry and eliminated sines, cosines and tangents from the trigonometric toolkit. What’s more, his simple new fram.....


01 September 2005 - Einstein's legacy and life: free public lecture
read the full story ->A free and fascinating public lecture by Professor Hanoch Gutfreund of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who is cordinator of all of Albert Einstein's intellectual property, including his literary e.....


30 August 2005 - SHIPS BRING ALIEN JELLYFISH INVADERS
read the full story ->Marine environments around the world are being threatened by exotic species of the moon jellyfish being dispersed by international shipping, according to research by Australian scientists. Using genet.....


15 August 2005 - UNSW U COMMITTEE AWARD FOR RESEARCH EXCELLENCE IN SCIENCE
read the full story ->An award of $10,000 will be given ny the UNSW U Committee to the Doctoral student in science who is judged to have submitted the best thesis in the calendar year.


09 August 2005 - MEMORY: BRIGHT OLD THINGS AS GOOD AS YOUNG ONES
read the full story ->The idea that memory falters with advancing age has been dealt a blow by a new study showing that healthy, intelligent people in their late 70s are just as good as 18-year-olds at recalling material t.....


26 July 2005 - DOG DISEASE GETS THE BITE
read the full story ->A decade of detective work by dog breeders and University of NSW scientists has finally broken the grip of a fatal brain disease afflicting one of Australia's most popular dog breeds, the border colli.....


13 July 2005 - KIDS WITH FLAT FEET JUMP HIGHER
read the full story ->Children with flat feet perform as well at physical activities, and sometimes better, than children with normal foot arches, a new UNSW study has found. They can jump higher, for example, and have str.....


07 July 2005 - SECRETS OF THE DIDGERIDOO REVEALED
read the full story ->The sonic mysteries of one of the world's most difficult musical instruments, the didgeridoo, have been unravelled by a team of researchers, including physicists from UNSW.


05 July 2005 - SCIENTISTS TEAM UP FOR NEW EYES IN THE SKY
read the full story ->UNSW and Astrovision Australia have signed a teaming agreement that will give scientists free access to a massive amount of high-quality data when the new satellite is launched in 2008.


01 July 2005 - MOUNTAINS ARE YOUNG . . . AND COOL
read the full story ->A special geological dating technique has revealed that mountains are made much more quickly than previously thought, according to research published in this week's Nature.


01 July 2005 - FRESH AGENDA FOR LIGHT METALS
read the full story ->UNSW researchers are partners in a recent outstanding success in gaining funding from the Australian Research Council of $14.5m for a Centre of Excellence for Design in Light Metals. It is the second .....


17 June 2005 - SWITCH OFF THE LIGHTS TO SEE THE NIGHT!
read the full story ->The prominent UNSW astronomer Professor Warrick Couch has called for city floodlights to be switched off more often to give residents a better view of the night sky.


17 June 2005 - Faculty researchers win prestigious funds
Three Faculty of Science researchers have been awarded the most prestigious Federal Governmnent funding for scientific excellence.


07 June 2005 - DOLPHIN MOTHERS TEACH THEIR KIDS TO SPONGE
read the full story ->Dolphin mothers teach their offspring how to use a marine sponge as a tool when they forage for fish, a new study has found.


06 June 2005 - Michael Murphy wins $10,000 U-Committee Prize
read the full story ->Distinguished physics graduate Michael Murphy has won the $10,000 University of New South Wales U-Committee prize.


27 May 2005 - YOUNG ADULTS FORGET THEIR OWN LIFE-AND-DEATH DECISIONS
read the full story ->Young adults have short memories about life-or-death medical decisions, new research findings suggest.


19 May 2005 - "HUMANITY NEAR TIPPING POINT" - LORD MAY
read the full story ->"Some time this year a person will be born whose arrival will mark a tipping point in the history of human life on Earth"- Lord Robert May lecture


28 April 2005 - THE MOST COMPLEX MACHINES EVER MADE
read the full story ->Quantum computers will be the most complex mechines humans have ever made, says the Director of the renowned Centre for Quantum Computer Technology, Professor Bob Clark, of UNSW.


18 April 2005 - SCIENCE: A DAY IN THE LIFE
read the full story ->UNSW students will “shadow” science graduates on Friday April 15th to capture the breadth of careers pursued by people with science training as part of the global World-Wide Day in Science.


13 April 2005 - AUSSIE KIDS STILL SURE-SIGHTED
read the full story ->Australian children are as sure-sighted as they ever were despite the mystery epidemic of myopia - or short-sightedness - that has swept much of the rest of the world.


11 March 2005 - Aussie kids still sure-sighted
read the full story ->Vision science study reveals no increase in myopia


10 March 2005 - FINDING MORE THAN NEMO: A FISHY SURPRISE
read the full story ->UNSW marine scientists have been surprised to discover tiny pilchards - a commercially and environmentally important fish species thought to live only close to the coast - hundreds of kilometres off t.....


03 March 2005 - TRUTH NO LONGER BLACK AND WHITE
read the full story ->Everyone knows the difference between black and white, right? Wrong, according to UNSW psychologist Dr Bart Anderson, whose research on the way we perceive light has revolutionised scientific understa.....


23 February 2005 - WHY WE PUT OUR FOOT IN IT: THE PAINFUL TRUTH
read the full story ->Some of us can hold our tongues better than others but even the best of us will blurt out the truth when we're tired, stressed or distracted, according to a new research report.


21 February 2005 - New number found
read the full story ->A new number has been recently found by the School of Mathematics.


09 February 2005 - SCIENTISTS SURVEY MALDIVIAN ATOLLS WRECKED BY TSUNAMI
read the full story ->Scientists from Australia, New Zealand and the Maldives will survey low-lying coral islands in the Maldives devastated by the Boxing Day tsunami to help plan future management and development of islan.....


04 February 2005 - UNSW YOUNG STARS SHINE IN SCIENCE AWARDS
read the full story ->Two of Australia’s emerging scientific stars have been awarded prestigious medals for outstanding achievement in quantum electronics and in genetic research. Both recipients are from the UNSW Faculty .....


13 January 2005 - ASTRONOMERS FIND MISSING COSMIC LINK
read the full story ->The missing link between the Big Bang and the structure of the modern universe has been found by a team of British and Australian astronomers.


15 December 2004 - Global warming good news for coral reefs: research
read the full story ->The growth rate of coral reefs will increase 35 per cent by 2100 due to the greenhouse effect and warmer ocean temperatures, according to Australian Scientists.


14 December 2004 - Aviation flying high on 10th anniversary
read the full story ->The UNSW Science Faculty’s Department of Aviation this week marks its 10th anniversary. Head of Department, Professor Jason Middleton, had these words to say on a decade of achievement.


14 December 2004 - New weapon in germ warfare: “jamming” bacteria signals stops cholera
read the full story ->A new treatment for the age-old scourge of cholera and perhaps a whole new type of antibiotic medicine may emerge from chemicals discovered in an Australian seaweed, new research results suggest.


10 December 2004 - Innovative scientists win AGSM business planning competition
read the full story ->Science students scooped the pool at the 2004 Connector Business Planning Competition last Friday, taking out first and equal second place.


09 December 2004 - Fresh innovation prize winner – Dr Veena Sahajwalla
Today’s plastic shopping bag could morph into the steel cars of tomorrow, according to UNSW materials scientist Dr Veena Sahajwalla.


08 December 2004 - THE GENE REVOLUTION
read the full story ->One of the world's leading scientists, Dr Craig Venter of human genome fame, delivered a once-only public lecture at UNSW on Thursday evening, November 4


08 December 2004 - Science scores five fellowships and $20m in 2005 ARC funding round
read the full story ->The Science Faculty has secured nearly $20 million in the latest Australian Research Council funding round.


03 December 2004 - Solar to power two billion people who lack electricity
Solar cells that convert sunlight to electricity could transform living standards for the estimated 2 billion people worldwide who lack electricity, according to the Australian scientist awarded the E.....


03 December 2004 - Wanted: 75,000 scientists by 2010
That’s how many more scientists we need for Australia to get its share of booming knowledge-based industries like agribusiness, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, according Professor Peter Andrews, Qu.....


03 December 2004 - Sky high honour for telescope scientist
The University of New South Wales has awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science to Peter Gillingham, one of the world’s most eminent instrument scientists and telescope engineers.


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