ScienceNetwork WA

A COMPETITION aimed at finding the best new mobile phone app in Australia, has recently been announced by Curtin University.

AN early career physicist from Murdoch University has recently won the 2012 Fulbright WA Scholarship to investigate further innovative technologies that will allow WA industries to be more energy, carbon and water-use efficient.

TWO West Australian teenagers are heading off to Boston this June for the International BioGENEius Challenge finals, after winning the WA leg of the competition.

A WESTERN Australian medical scientist has received an Endeavour Executive Award in the latest round of federal funding for professional development abroad.

SOCIAL networking technology is empowering protesters to spread their messages further, organise rapidly and frustrate police attempts to control them.

A TEAM of Curtin University nanochemistry researchers have come up with a new explanation for the formation of nanodiamonds.  

WA TEACHERS, industry professionals and scientists were reminded of the thrill of hands-on engineering as American ‘Science Evangelist’ Dr Ed Sobey led them through his inspiring Learning in the 21st Century: Hands-on Innovation Masterclass.

AN expert in computer-based education strategies says students need to be taught the concepts behind technological innovations to allow them to properly prepare for a rapidly changing workforce and information-based world.

THE Young Innovator of the Year Program 2012 is set to be the most impressive yet as the initiative branches out with exciting events and more supporters jump on board.

WIRELESS fire monitoring sensors which could be a vital early warning system against fire in bush areas have been developed by researchers from Edith Cowan University’s Centre for Communications Engineering Research, to aid in bushfire prevention.