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Category: Science

  • So you want to be a world-famous scientist?

    So you want to be a world-famous scientist?

    Here are five tips based on success stories of the past but designed for ambitious young women of today In 1909, the Australian suffragist Muriel Matters hit headlines around the world when she flew over London in a dirigible, showering the crowds below her with thousands of campaign leaflets. Although British women were still not…

  • 2014 Prime Minister’s Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching

    The recipients of the 2014 Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science were announced at a black-tie awards dinner on Wednesday 29 October in the Great Hall of Parliament House in Canberra. Representing the nation’s finest awards for excellence in science and science teaching, the five prizes awarded in 2014 were: Prime Minister’s Prize for Science Frank…