News & Blog
Swinburne Uni is supporting two research projects investigating bioplastics: one into the use of ingredients from renewable sources, the other into the properties of biopolymers that determine their ‘compostability’.
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Researchers have developed a simple process for producing nanocrystals that will help understand and predict how nanoparticles interact with the world around them.
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AUSTRALIAN stem cell scientists, among the world’s pioneers in the development of artificial blood, warn it will be a while yet before donors are no longer needed at the blood bank.
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Patients with chronic heart failure given injections of their own bone marrow stem cells have better heart function and live longer
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Resources
Written by science teachers Kate Anderson and Sally Parker and designed for use in the classroom, this 64-page guide will bring out the imagination, creativity and independent learning in your students.
It uses enquiry-based approaches and proven pedagogical methodology to maximise engagement and involvement of students in their learning. And it offers [...]
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An overview of the key biofuels, their potential, and technical and social issues facing them.
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Personal blog of Andrew Maynard, Chief Science Advisor to the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Educational resource to introduce accessible and innovative nano science and technology to secondary classrooms – includes web-based teaching modules, experiments, activities, animations and more
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Events
[ 31 August 2010 to 2 September 2010. ] TechNyou will be in the Wine, food and leisure expo. Our booth will focus on sustainable food production and the science of yummy stuff
http://www.agshow.com.au/
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[ 18 August 2010; 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm. ] National Science Week event. Collaboration between TechNyou and Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics
Forum for scientists, experts and public to engage on the future of food production. In the face of climate change, growing population, water and fertiliser scarcity, what are the acceptable ways for us to ensure a sustainable food supply into the future?
Venue: [...]
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[ 25 June 2010 8:00 am to 27 June 2010 5:00 pm. ] WA Science Teacher confernce
Venue: Muresk Agricultural College, WA
TechNyou will have a trade display and run a professional development workshop
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[ 4 July 2010 9:00 am to 7 July 2010 5:00 pm. ] TechNyou will have its trade display and be running a workshop at CONASTA
Venue: University of Technology, Sydney
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Questions?
A US fertility expert last week claimed to have implanted cloned embryos into women in an attempt to produce a cloned child, and apparently there is no shortage of volunteers. So why not allow human reproductive cloning?
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In many instances people are unaware that Australia even has regulators checking this stuff. But we do and the main one involved in assessing the safety of GMOs are listed here.
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A conference on human enhancement suggests the ethics of human enhancement will be the single most important issue in science & society in this century. So what is human enhancement and why is it raising the ethical hackles of many, yet exciting others? What should be morally permissible and what should not?
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