VegeSafe initiative recognised with Green Lifestyle award
22 October 2014
The Faculty of Science’s community soil testing program, VegeSafe, has been highly commended in the Garden – Company category in …
Science & nature
Professor Mark Westoby named 2014 NSW Scientist of the Year
20 October 2014
One of the world’s most influential ecologists, Professor Mark Westoby, has been named Scientist of the Year at the 2014 …
Toxic playgrounds: Broken Hill kids exposed to poisonous dust
17 October 2014
By Mark Taylor In the shadows of Broken Hill’s rich mining history lies a legacy of contamination and regulatory failure …
Climate change enabled the Polynesian colonisation of the East and South Pacific
30 September 2014
New research shows that the expansion of the tropics and associated changes in Pacific Ocean wind patterns facilitated the Polynesian …
Bioplatforms Australia Partnership on Yeast 2.0
29 September 2014
Macquarie University is excited to announce Bioplatforms Australia as a partner in the synthetic yeast project – Yeast 2.0. Bioplatforms …
Experiment makes Schrodinger’s cat choose: things can be real, or certain, but not both
26 September 2014
Experimenting within quantum theory is an extremely complex process, where common intuitions are regularly inverted within shifting reality. Over the …
Families take part in world-leading genetics research at Williams Syndrome Australia Conference
18 September 2014
For the first time in seven years, over 50 Williams syndrome (WS) families from across Australia will come together to …
Dwarf galaxy has ‘bizarre’ Supermassive Black Hole
18 September 2014
Two Australian astronomers are part of the international team who found a supermassive black hole inside the smallest known galaxy. A …
Macquarie University undergraduate science students to compete in world’s premier synthetic biology competition
16 September 2014
Twelve undergraduate biomolecular science students from Macquarie University are set to compete in the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition, …
The (re)Generation: a movement created by the young, for the young, to fall in love with nature
15 September 2014
Supported by the New South Wales Environment Trust, Macquarie University has partnered with Oz Green to launch a project to …
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