Professor Bryan Gaensler, from the School of Physics, has been named in the top 100 most influential people in Sydney by the Sydney Morning Herald's the(sydney)magazine.
Dr Nick Coleman, from the School of Molecular Bioscience, writes about the significance of NASA's finding of a new form of bacteria that can use arsenic in place of phosphorous for its biological processes.
A team of solar energy researchers led by Dr Tim Schmidt, from the School of Chemistry, has been awarded a $487 584 grant from the Australian Government's Australian Solar Institute. Dr Raphaël Clady, part of the solar research team, has also been awarded an Australian Solar Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Dr Tony Grant, Director of the Coaching Psychology Unit in the School of Psychology, is starring in an ABC documentary series on the science of happiness - Making Australia Happy.
Professor Shing-Tung Yau, a Fields Medal winner from Harvard University, will present a free public talk on 'The Shape of Inner Space' on Friday 26 November at the University of Sydney.
We use lasers every day, but where and how? Find out when Professor Barry Luther-Davies, from the Australian National University, Canberra, presents his Sydney Science Forum - 'Beaming with pride' on Wednesday 10 November at the University of Sydney.
On Wednesday 10 November, eminent laser physicist, Professor Barry Luther-Davies, will give a public lecture about the fascinating world of lasers and the way they light our modern world.
Sydney Astronomers have met with colleagues in China during a week-long visit, covering four cities including Beijing, Nanjing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong.
Scoring over $16.38 million worth of Australian Research Council funding for Discovery Projects and Linkage Projects, researchers in the Faculty of Science have been successful in obtaining funding for 45 Discovery Projects and one Linkage Project to begin in 2011.
The University of Sydney has been ranked first in Australia, first in the Oceania region, and 53rd in the world in the SCImago Institutions Rankings World Report 2010, which measures international rankings of scientific output.
Hear about the amazing adaptive abilities of lizards from visiting Harvard Professor Jonathan Losos, and see a live reptile display at his Sydney Science Forum public talk on Wednesday 20 October, 2010.
Dr Richard Payne, from the School of Chemistry, and Dr Joanne Whittaker, from the School of Geosciences, have won NSW Young Tall Poppy Science Awards, run by the Australian Institute of Policy and Science and sponsored by the NSW Office for Science and Medical Research.
Selected as one of the most outstanding young scientists under the age of 40 by an international panel, Professor Ben Eggleton, from the School of Physics, represented Australia at the Science and Technology in Society forum in Kyoto, Japan.
On Wednesday 6 October, University of Sydney Federation Fellow, Professor Joss Bland-Hawthorn will present an intriguing insight into the creation of antimatter in the Universe.
University of Sydney's Professor Hugh Durrant-Whyte - a leading robotics innovator who has played a critical role in raising the visibility of Australian robotics internationally - has been named NSW Scientist of the Year.
A new pilot biomass processing plant at the University of Sydney gives researchers an opportunity to improve biofuel production, taking it a step closer to becoming a commercially viable, sustainable energy source.
University of Sydney researchers have discovered a new super-strength light alloy and had their key findings published in the prestigious journal, Nature Communications.
Hear Professor Johann Deisenhofer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1988, present on cholesterol transport at a special presentation at the University of Sydney on 15 September 2010.
Hear a tale of cannibals, ageing and human obesity from Professor Steve Simpson, NSW Scientist of the Year 2009, at his Sydney Science Forum public talk on 15 September 2010.
Write a feature article about a scientific issue or fascinating piece of research, or express your opinion on a current scientific issue, and you could win a share of $2 500 plus the chance to be published in New Scientist online.
Dr Min Chen, from the School of Biological Sciences, has discovered the first new chlorophyll in over 60 years and published the findings in the international journal Science.
An exhibition, which celebrates an extraordinary ecological study of the Australian desert spanning two decades, has been launched at the University of Sydney.
Dr John Forge, from the Unit for History and Philosophy of Science, Faculty of Science, and Honorary Professor Bruce Sutton, from the Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, have both won Australian Museum Eureka Prizes, announced on 17 August 2010.
The US National Security Agency and Army Research Office have awarded a AU$1.78 million (US$1.6M) grant to Dr Michael Biercuk, a quantum physicist in the School of Physics at the University of Sydney.
The science of sound, an amusing account of how the first x-rays were discovered by Wilhelm Röntgen, an insight into the details of feathers, and the space-time continuum are the topics of the winning films in the University of Sydney Sleek Geeks Eureka Prize.
A national broadband network will have applications far beyond just faster emails and YouTube, writes Professor Ben Eggleton and Professor David Moss, from the School of Physics.
Memories can't be trusted and become contaminated when people discuss their memories of an event with others, according to a University of Sydney study.
Dr William D. Phillips, winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics, will present "Time, Einstein and the Coolest Stuff in the Universe" on Wednesday 4 August.
Come on a journey through the extraordinary 'boom' and 'bust' cycles that characterise inland Australia with Professor Chris Dickman at the Sydney Science Forum - Some Like It Hot on Thursday 12 August 2010. This free public talk, presented by Professor Dickman from the School of Biological Sciences, will examine how life persists during good times and bad, and how Australia's central deserts support rich assemblages of animals and plants.
The Faculty of Science has been successful in having two Australian Research Council Centres of Excellence funded from 2011 in the latest round of funding announced on 16 July 2010. The two new Centres have been funded for a total of $44.4 million from the Australian Research Council.
University of Sydney astrophysicist, Professor Bryan Gaensler, has been awarded a prestigious Australian Laureate Fellowship by the Australian Research Council (ARC).
Some individuals are just born selfish, and research by Michael Holmes has shown that in Cape honey bees (Apis mellifera capensis), some workers are genetically predisposed to committing the ultimate act of selfishness - tricking other workers into raising their clonal daughter as the new queen.
Michael West, a current Physics Honours student completing his Bachelor of Science / Bachelor of Engineering degrees, has won SydneyTalent's Opinion Editorial Competition. Entrants were asked to write their opinion on Arts vs Science in a newspaper style opinion editorial.
Professor Geraint Lewis, from the School of Physics, has been awarded the prestigious Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Visitor Fellowship at the University of Cambridge's Institute of Astronomy.
Bridget Murphy, a PhD student in the School of Biological Sciences, and Dr Peter Domachuk, a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Physics, are Fresh Science 2010 winners. Fresh Science is a national competition that identifies new and interesting research being done by early-career scientists around the country and gives winners the chance to tell their stories to the media and other audiences.
The University of Sydney has secured $40 million in funding to build the new Australian Institute for Nanoscience from the federal government's Education Investment Fund, announced on 11 June 2010.
Video conferencing and telecommunications are heading towards being instantaneous due to research being carried out by young postgraduate student, Trung Duc Vo, working in the School of Physics.
Scientists in the Faculty of Science at the University of Sydney have been successful in gaining three of the first Super Science Fellowships from the Australian Research Council. The three Fellowships are worth $1.67 million - a considerable slice of the $27.2 million that will be spent over four years across Australia on the Super Science Fellowships.
We all know that looks matter, and for snakes, a colour which works well on land has dramatically different results under water, according to a recent study by biologists from the University of Sydney. Professor Rick Shine and Dr Adele Pile from the School of Biological Sciences have discovered a sea snake's colouration can influence its susceptibility to algal fouling which can reduce swimming speed by up to 20 per cent.
Dr Michael Biercuk has arrived at The University of Sydney's School of Physics via Harvard, DARPA, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Laboratories in Boulder, Colorado.
Thirteen Japanese students from Tohoku University have taken part in an innovative program to learn English through Physics and Mathematics lectures and customised tutorials at the University of Sydney in March 2010.
There are thousands of jokes exploring the cultural differences between Australia and New Zealand - but what about their geological divide? Geoscientists from the University of Sydney have created a mathematical computer model that calculates the immense forces of nature that tore New Zealand away from Australia 100 million years ago and say a similar process may be underway in South America.
Three staff from the Faculty of Science were elected as Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science on 24 March 2010. Dr Marianne Frommer, from the School of Biological Sciences, Professor Jeffrey Reimers, from the School of Chemistry, and Professor Elaine Sadler, from the School of Physics, were honoured as three of Australia's leading scientists.
SpaceSoc will be holding an astronomy viewing night on the university lawns outside the Main Quadrangle to celebrate Earth Hour on 27 March 2010. Bring your own telescope or come and have a look through one of SpaceSoc's and enjoy the magnificent views of the night sky that Sydney has to offer.
Come to the first Sydney Science Forum for 2010, where one of the world's leading experts in virus evolution, Professor Eddie Holmes, will address the issue of global epidemics. This free talk will be held on Thursday 18 March 2010.
Making science and mathematics education engaging and innovative has never been more important in Australia. The University of Sydney launched its Institute for Innovation in Science and Mathematics Education on 26 February 2010 to transform science and mathematics education.
We all like a top quality meal in a nice setting, but new research by University of Sydney scientists, Dr Tanya Latty and Associate Professor Madeleine Beekman, has found that even simple slime moulds are able to make complex comparisons of food quality and risks in environment, deciding when the lure of a top quality meal overcomes a risky feeding environment.
Can five year old children understand something as complex as ecology? Do they grasp the concept of biodiversity? With dwindling ecosystems and vanishing species a troubling feature of the last two decades, can we teach conservation and sustainability to children from their very first day in the classroom?
In an innovative effort to save endangered quolls from extinction, University of Sydney biological scientist Stephanie O'Donnell is feeding them poisonous cane toad sausages.
Dr Tim Schmidt, from the School of Chemistry, has won the 2010 Coblentz Award from US vibrational spectroscopy association, the Coblentz Society. Dr Schmidt is the first scientist working in Australia to win the Coblentz Award, which is presented annually to an outstanding young molecular spectroscopist under the age of 36.
Professor Tony Weiss, from the School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences, has been appointed Chair of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology for the Australian Research Council's College of Experts.
Professor Jennie Brand-Miller, from the School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences at the University of Sydney, has won the 2009 Sir Kempson Maddox Award from the NSW branch of Diabetes Australia.
Astronomers at the University of Sydney are using data from NASA's Kepler Mission to learn more about the future fate of the Sun. After 300 days of intense investigation since the Kepler spacecraft launched in 2009, the scientific team behind Kepler is announcing the first results from the mission on 5 January 2010.
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Professor Bryan Gaensler, from the School of Physics, has been named in the top 100 most influential people in Sydney by the Sydney Morning Herald's the(sydney)magazine. 
Professor Bryan Gaensler, from the School of Physics, has won the highly prestigious Pawsey Medal for 2011 from the Australian Academy of Science.
Dr Nick Coleman, from the School of Molecular Bioscience, writes about the significance of NASA's finding of a new form of bacteria that can use arsenic in place of phosphorous for its biological processes. 
A team of solar energy researchers led by Dr Tim Schmidt, from the School of Chemistry, has been awarded a $487 584 grant from the Australian Government's Australian Solar Institute. Dr Raphaël Clady, part of the solar research team, has also been awarded an Australian Solar Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Dr Tony Grant, Director of the Coaching Psychology Unit in the School of Psychology, is starring in an ABC documentary series on the science of happiness - Making Australia Happy.
Professor Shing-Tung Yau, a Fields Medal winner from Harvard University, will present a free public talk on 'The Shape of Inner Space' on Friday 26 November at the University of Sydney.
We use lasers every day, but where and how? Find out when Professor Barry Luther-Davies, from the Australian National University, Canberra, presents his Sydney Science Forum - 'Beaming with pride' on Wednesday 10 November at the University of Sydney. 
Sydney Astronomers have met with colleagues in China during a week-long visit, covering four cities including Beijing, Nanjing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong.
Scoring over $16.38 million worth of Australian Research Council funding for Discovery Projects and Linkage Projects, researchers in the Faculty of Science have been successful in obtaining funding for 45 Discovery Projects and one Linkage Project to begin in 2011.
The University of Sydney has been ranked first in Australia, first in the Oceania region, and 53rd in the world in the SCImago Institutions Rankings World Report 2010, which measures international rankings of scientific output.
Hear about the amazing adaptive abilities of lizards from visiting Harvard Professor Jonathan Losos, and see a live reptile display at his Sydney Science Forum public talk on Wednesday 20 October, 2010. 
Dr Richard Payne, from the School of Chemistry, and Dr Joanne Whittaker, from the School of Geosciences, have won NSW Young Tall Poppy Science Awards, run by the Australian Institute of Policy and Science and sponsored by the NSW Office for Science and Medical Research.
Selected as one of the most outstanding young scientists under the age of 40 by an international panel, Professor Ben Eggleton, from the School of Physics, represented Australia at the Science and Technology in Society forum in Kyoto, Japan.
On Wednesday 6 October, University of Sydney Federation Fellow, Professor Joss Bland-Hawthorn will present an intriguing insight into the creation of antimatter in the Universe.
The University of Sydney is holding its Graduate Options Expo today from 3-8pm, where you can explore all your postgraduate options.
University of Sydney's Professor Hugh Durrant-Whyte - a leading robotics innovator who has played a critical role in raising the visibility of Australian robotics internationally - has been named NSW Scientist of the Year.
A new pilot biomass processing plant at the University of Sydney gives researchers an opportunity to improve biofuel production, taking it a step closer to becoming a commercially viable, sustainable energy source.
University of Sydney researchers have discovered a new super-strength light alloy and had their key findings published in the prestigious journal, Nature Communications.
Hear Professor Johann Deisenhofer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1988, present on cholesterol transport at a special presentation at the University of Sydney on 15 September 2010.
Hear a tale of cannibals, ageing and human obesity from Professor Steve Simpson, NSW Scientist of the Year 2009, at his Sydney Science Forum public talk on 15 September 2010. 
Write a feature article about a scientific issue or fascinating piece of research, or express your opinion on a current scientific issue, and you could win a share of $2 500 plus the chance to be published in New Scientist online.
Dr Deanna D'Alessandro, from the School of Chemistry, has won a L'Oréal Australia For Women in Science Fellowship worth $20 000 for her work on new crystals that are able to capture carbon dioxide, hydrogen and other gases.
Dr Min Chen, from the School of Biological Sciences, has discovered the first new chlorophyll in over 60 years and published the findings in the international journal Science.
An exhibition, which celebrates an extraordinary ecological study of the Australian desert spanning two decades, has been launched at the University of Sydney.
Dr John Forge, from the Unit for History and Philosophy of Science, Faculty of Science, and Honorary Professor Bruce Sutton, from the Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, have both won Australian Museum Eureka Prizes, announced on 17 August 2010.
The US National Security Agency and Army Research Office have awarded a AU$1.78 million (US$1.6M) grant to Dr Michael Biercuk, a quantum physicist in the School of Physics at the University of Sydney.
The science of sound, an amusing account of how the first x-rays were discovered by Wilhelm Röntgen, an insight into the details of feathers, and the space-time continuum are the topics of the winning films in the University of Sydney Sleek Geeks Eureka Prize. 
A national broadband network will have applications far beyond just faster emails and YouTube, writes Professor Ben Eggleton and Professor David Moss, from the School of Physics.
Memories can't be trusted and become contaminated when people discuss their memories of an event with others, according to a University of Sydney study.
University of Sydney astronomers joined a historic Australia-China Commonwealth Roundtable on Astronomy at the Shanghai Expo on Monday 2 August 2010.
Dr William D. Phillips, winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics, will present "Time, Einstein and the Coolest Stuff in the Universe" on Wednesday 4 August.
Come on a journey through the extraordinary 'boom' and 'bust' cycles that characterise inland Australia with Professor Chris Dickman at the Sydney Science Forum - Some Like It Hot on Thursday 12 August 2010. This free public talk, presented by Professor Dickman from the School of Biological Sciences, will examine how life persists during good times and bad, and how Australia's central deserts support rich assemblages of animals and plants.
The Faculty of Science has been successful in having two Australian Research Council Centres of Excellence funded from 2011 in the latest round of funding announced on 16 July 2010. The two new Centres have been funded for a total of $44.4 million from the Australian Research Council. 
University of Sydney astrophysicist, Professor Bryan Gaensler, has been awarded a prestigious Australian Laureate Fellowship by the Australian Research Council (ARC).
Some individuals are just born selfish, and research by Michael Holmes has shown that in Cape honey bees (Apis mellifera capensis), some workers are genetically predisposed to committing the ultimate act of selfishness - tricking other workers into raising their clonal daughter as the new queen. 
Michael West, a current Physics Honours student completing his Bachelor of Science / Bachelor of Engineering degrees, has won SydneyTalent's Opinion Editorial Competition. Entrants were asked to write their opinion on Arts vs Science in a newspaper style opinion editorial. 
Professor Geraint Lewis, from the School of Physics, has been awarded the prestigious Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Visitor Fellowship at the University of Cambridge's Institute of Astronomy.
Bridget Murphy, a PhD student in the School of Biological Sciences, and Dr Peter Domachuk, a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Physics, are Fresh Science 2010 winners. Fresh Science is a national competition that identifies new and interesting research being done by early-career scientists around the country and gives winners the chance to tell their stories to the media and other audiences.
The University of Sydney has secured $40 million in funding to build the new Australian Institute for Nanoscience from the federal government's Education Investment Fund, announced on 11 June 2010.
Video conferencing and telecommunications are heading towards being instantaneous due to research being carried out by young postgraduate student, Trung Duc Vo, working in the School of Physics.
In this free public lecture, visiting Professor David Cahen will explore the world's energy crisis and approaches to overcoming this global challenge.
Mid year entry is available for a variety of Postgraduate coursework programs in the Faculty of Science.
Scientists in the Faculty of Science at the University of Sydney have been successful in gaining three of the first Super Science Fellowships from the Australian Research Council. The three Fellowships are worth $1.67 million - a considerable slice of the $27.2 million that will be spent over four years across Australia on the Super Science Fellowships. 
We all know that looks matter, and for snakes, a colour which works well on land has dramatically different results under water, according to a recent study by biologists from the University of Sydney. Professor Rick Shine and Dr Adele Pile from the School of Biological Sciences have discovered a sea snake's colouration can influence its susceptibility to algal fouling which can reduce swimming speed by up to 20 per cent.
Dr Michael Biercuk has arrived at The University of Sydney's School of Physics via Harvard, DARPA, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Laboratories in Boulder, Colorado.
Thirteen Japanese students from Tohoku University have taken part in an innovative program to learn English through Physics and Mathematics lectures and customised tutorials at the University of Sydney in March 2010.
There are thousands of jokes exploring the cultural differences between Australia and New Zealand - but what about their geological divide? Geoscientists from the University of Sydney have created a mathematical computer model that calculates the immense forces of nature that tore New Zealand away from Australia 100 million years ago and say a similar process may be underway in South America.
Three staff from the Faculty of Science were elected as Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science on 24 March 2010. Dr Marianne Frommer, from the School of Biological Sciences, Professor Jeffrey Reimers, from the School of Chemistry, and Professor Elaine Sadler, from the School of Physics, were honoured as three of Australia's leading scientists. 
SpaceSoc will be holding an astronomy viewing night on the university lawns outside the Main Quadrangle to celebrate Earth Hour on 27 March 2010. Bring your own telescope or come and have a look through one of SpaceSoc's and enjoy the magnificent views of the night sky that Sydney has to offer.
Come to the first Sydney Science Forum for 2010, where one of the world's leading experts in virus evolution, Professor Eddie Holmes, will address the issue of global epidemics. This free talk will be held on Thursday 18 March 2010.
Professor Ben Eggleton, from the School of Physics, has won the 2010 Scopus Young Researcher of the Year Award for Physical Sciences.
Making science and mathematics education engaging and innovative has never been more important in Australia. The University of Sydney launched its Institute for Innovation in Science and Mathematics Education on 26 February 2010 to transform science and mathematics education.
We all like a top quality meal in a nice setting, but new research by University of Sydney scientists, Dr Tanya Latty and Associate Professor Madeleine Beekman, has found that even simple slime moulds are able to make complex comparisons of food quality and risks in environment, deciding when the lure of a top quality meal overcomes a risky feeding environment.
Can five year old children understand something as complex as ecology? Do they grasp the concept of biodiversity? With dwindling ecosystems and vanishing species a troubling feature of the last two decades, can we teach conservation and sustainability to children from their very first day in the classroom?
In an innovative effort to save endangered quolls from extinction, University of Sydney biological scientist Stephanie O'Donnell is feeding them poisonous cane toad sausages.
Professor Tony Weiss, from the School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences, has been appointed Chair of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology for the Australian Research Council's College of Experts.
Professor Jennie Brand-Miller, from the School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences at the University of Sydney, has won the 2009 Sir Kempson Maddox Award from the NSW branch of Diabetes Australia. 
Astronomers at the University of Sydney are using data from NASA's Kepler Mission to learn more about the future fate of the Sun. After 300 days of intense investigation since the Kepler spacecraft launched in 2009, the scientific team behind Kepler is announcing the first results from the mission on 5 January 2010.