2020 Eureka Prizes go to a 'milkshake for malaria', ABC's Coronacast and an energy-making sewerage system
26 November, 2020 by Noor Gillani, Deputy Editor, Science and Technology, The ConversationThe prizes, presented by the Australian Museum, acknowledge a diverse group of brilliant minds tackling global problems.
Aus researchers recognised for synchrotron science
13 November, 2020ANSTO has announced accolades for Professor Peter Lay and Dr Wei Kong Pang, in recognition of their contributions to synchrotron research.
2020 Prime Minister's Prizes for Science awarded
29 October, 2020A team that was instrumental in the world-first detection of gravitational waves has won the 2020 Prime Minister's Prize for Science.
2020 Nobel Prize winners announced
09 October, 2020The 2020 Nobel Prizes recognise the discoveries of hepatits C, black holes and CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors.
Data science competition to tackle COVID-19
01 October, 2020C3.ai is encouraging data scientists, developers, researchers and creative thinkers from around the world to participate in the C3.ai COVID-19 Grand Challenge.
ATSE opens award nominations, encourages STEM investment
23 September, 2020Each year, ATSE recognises leading lights who make extraordinary contributions to technological science and engineering in Australia.
Vibrating worm wins Aus researchers 2020 Ig Nobel Prize
21 September, 2020The researchers won the Ig Nobel Physics Prize for determining what happens to the shape of a living earthworm when one vibrates the earthworm at high frequency.
Aussie team wins COVID-19 hackathon
14 August, 2020 by Lauren DavisThe team won the Best Use of Technology category in NASA's Space Apps COVID-19 Challenge virtual hackathon with their COVID-19 safe air purifying solution.
ATSE announces 2020 award winners
03 August, 2020The Academy of Technology and Engineering's 2020 Innovation and Excellence Awards recognised breakthroughs in fields including biotech, agriculture and engineering.
Aus researcher awarded prestigious analytical science prize
09 July, 2020Professor Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh has been awarded the 2020 Robert Boyle Prize for Analytical Science by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Award winners announced for 2020 World Metrology Day
21 May, 202020 May was World Metrology Day, celebrating the central role of metrology, or measurement science, in trade, scientific discovery and innovation.
NHMRC presents 2019 Research Excellence Awards
16 March, 2020Research Excellence Awards are awarded each year to top-ranked researchers and teams following peer review of applications to the NHMRC's highly competitive grant schemes.
Australian Academy of Science presents 2020 honorific awards
03 March, 2020The Australian Academy of Science has presented its prestigious 2020 honorific awards to 18 different researchers for their outstanding contributions to science.
Aussie astronomer Lisa Kewley wins James Craig Watson Medal
29 January, 2020Professor Lisa Kewley has been awarded the 2020 James Craig Watson Medal by the US National Academy of Sciences for her contributions to the study of galaxy formation and evolution.
Blood-clotting treatment wins Drug Discovery of the Year 2020
24 January, 2020Caplacizumab is said to be the first nanobody therapy to treat adults with the rare autoimmune blood-clotting disorder known as acquired thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura.
