One of the nation’s leading scientists, Nobel prizewinner Brian Schmidt, has warned that his field of optical astronomy faces extinction in Australia in three years because astronomers are poised to lose access to the big optical telescopes needed to make ...
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Techno-anthropologist Genevieve Bell AO will be the first woman to lead the Australian National University, taking over from Nobel prizewinner Brian Schmidt when he steps down at the end of the year. ANU chancellor Julie Bishop said Professor Bell, who ...
More »‘Freudianism and its discontents’ vs efforts inspired by love in overcoming the COVID-19 scourge
Gentle reader: During the past 24 hours while you slept you dreamt. You may not recall your dream but you did dream, or so say contemporary neurologists and scientists. For millennia there have been many treatises, tracts or plain ‘hocus ...
More »Nobel laureate stripped of honours after ‘reprehensible’ statements
In 2007 James Watson, the Nobel Prize winner who co-discovered the structure of DNA, said that black people are genetically inferior. In an interview with the Sunday Times Magazine, he voiced that he was "inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa" as "all our social policies are based ...
More »The third-ever female Nobel Prize-winning physicist doesn’t want your gender pity
Chances are, either you or someone you know has had laser eye surgery. If it weren't for Canadian Nobel Prize in Physics quarter-winner Donna Strickland, that wouldn't have happened. Yet others seem to be more interested in her gender. In an ...
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The more chocolate that a country’s citizens eat, the more Nobel prize winners they produce, says an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Columbia University’s Professor Franz Messerli wrote that flavonoids, antioxidants found in cocoa, green tea, ...
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