Formula 1 racing has never been known for its green credentials – after all it’s all about making a lot of noise, going really, really fast and burning a lot of fossil fuel.
But that seems to be changing in 2014. The new engines must be at least 30% more efficient ... Read More
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Apr2014
11
Apr2014
Sight beyond sight.
Our colour vision stretches from the longer wavelengths we see as red to the shorter wavelengths we see as violet. But ultraviolet vision is fairly common among insects, fish, reptiles and birds, especially those with smaller eyes that filter out less UV light. Bees have excellent UV vision ... Read More
06
Apr2014
The Foundation's Steering Committee had a kick-off meeting on the 2nd April 2014 in the CoWSNearTheCoast space in Bega.
This involved the parents of the 6 science scholarship students at Bega High and Sapphire Coast Anglican College. The scholarship strategy focusses on the ‘non classroom’ elements of getting kids interested ... Read More
08
Mar2014
By: Warwick
If you pour a bucket of water into the sea at, say, Brighton on the English coast, how long will it be before the ocean rises at Sydney Heads?
And a second question - how long before some of the molecules in that bucket of water end up in the ... Read More
12
Feb2014
From Tim and family
At the beginning of this year we went to Sydney and visited:
Aquarium at Darling ... Read More
04
Feb2014
As everyone knows, Pi is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. That is, Pi = C / D or C= 2 x Pi x r. Pi is an irrational number - one that can never be expressed as a fraction and one whose pattern ... Read More
01
Feb2014
By Garry Prothero:
On the 8th-10th of January, Misko and I attended the conocophillip science experience held at the university of Sydney. The program for the three days consisted of a number of lectures and practical experiments in the field of forensic sciences. Overall it was a very interesting ... Read More
30
Jan2014
By Misko:
Just some brief feedback and thoughts about the Science Experience that Garry and I attended.
The Science Experience was definitely interesting and there were challenging parts. The course was set up to be a bit of an introduction to the university experience. Each day we would engage ... Read More
24
Jan2014
By Warwick:
Part of the resupply of the International Space Station by an unmanned craft a couple weeks ago was an ant farm!
'Ants in Space' is a school project that will let children on the ground monitor a video feed of an ant colony in orbit to determine ... Read More
23
Jan2014
By Jade:
On the third and final day, we began with two lectures. The first was from Associate Professor Joanna Jamie who is a bioorganic/medicinal chemist and the Deputy Head of the Department of Chemistry and Bimolecular Sciences at Macquarie University. She spoke about the legends behind plants as ... Read More