My colleague at the Australian Science Media Centre, Nigel Kerby had a late night last night, waiting up in the desolate surrounds of South Australia’s Woomera test range for the Japanese space capsule Hayabusa to touch down. Scientists from Japan, the US and Australia, and including New Zealander Trevor Ireland had gathered over the weekend […]
MoreThis just came through from the World Health Organisation, which is clearly smarting after concerns were raised by the British Medical Journal about key pandemic advisors to the WHO having links to pharmaceutical companies that weren’t publicly disclosed. WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION LETTER TO BMJ EDITORS Below you will find a copy of the letter Dr […]
MoreTake a look at the mobile phone you own – does it have a camera on the front of it? If it does, chances are that its capable of making video calls. That’s right, another feature they stamped all over the box that you never actually use – and for good reason. To date, video […]
MoreThere were not too many scientists named in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. It would always have been hard to top last year, when two of our top scientists, Professor Peter Gluckman and Professor Paul Callaghan were knighted following the reintroduction of knighthoods and dameships. Here are the scientists and medical researchers I identified on […]
MoreDid scientists with links to “big pharma” fuel fear about pandemics at the World Health Organisation resulting in a massive spend-up on antiviral drugs? UPDATE: BMJ coverage now online here. It sounds like a conspiracy theory the anti-vax movement would dream up, but according to a joint investigation between the British Medical Journal and The […]
MoreI happened to be in Australia on Friday as the Apple iPad went on sale there, predictably attracting shoppers who queued through the night at the George St Apple store in Sydney. Adelaide, where I was, doesn’t have an official Apple store, but the iPads on offer were long gone by the time I got […]
MoreThe doctor who, for whatever reasons, nurtured the myth that the MMR vaccine causes autism has been struck off by the General Medical Council making it impossible for him to practice medicine in the United Kingdom. But the decision by the GMC to dismantle Andrew Wakefield’s career once and for all is unlikely to convince […]
MoreI was shocked and saddened to learn this morning (via Twitter) that internet commentator and developer and relentless advocate of open access to information Paul Reynolds died on Sunday of leukaemia. No one, not even Paul it seems knew he was ill. Eloquent tributes are flowing around the web dispersed via social networks, something Paul […]
MoreI’ve been scanning newspapers to see how the Science paper by Venter et al. was covered around the world. It isn’t surprising that many newspapers turned to infographics, with varying degrees of success, to try and explain what Venter’s team achieved. Here’s one of the better ones I saw, which British paper The Independent ran…
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