The Prime Minister’s Science Prizes: all the winners
At a gala event in Australia’s Parliament House, 10 people shared seven awards in recognition of their outstanding contributions to science. Jeff Glorfeld reports.
Alien intelligence
In this issue: Inside an alien mind – The plastic problem – Calling the stem cell race – Gallery: fossils in amber – No fungi, no us – Science predicts extreme weather
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Facility ups top X-ray pulse rate by orders of magnitude
First results shed light on antibiotic resistance. Andrew Masterson reports.
Science history: the man who tried to measure weather and war
Lewis Fry Richardson believe morality should always trump science. Jeff Glorfeld reports.
Science history: the man who went from bomb-maker to pacifist
Mark Oliphant was one of the engineers of the Manhattan Project, but later became a campaigner for peace. Jeff Glorfeld reports.
Father's nicotine use affects future generations
Mouse study implicates epigenetic changes in paternal sperm DNA. Nick Carne reports.
