MARCH 2000

FEATURES

Jess of the Antarctic
Jessica Dempsey spent the New Year at the South Pole constructing the Automated Astrophysical Site Testing Observatory, a mobile laboratory that can be deployed anywhere on the Antarctic plateau by a ski-equipped Hercules aircraft.

The sixth sense
Forensic scientists need a "sixth sense" when investigating industrial accidents, write Reg Broadbent and John Franceschini.

Seeing the light
Stephen Luntz speaks to a Nobel Prize winner who has turned his attention to helping scientists persecuted for whistleblowing.

Where are they now?
Stephen Luntz returns to stories reported in Australasian Science to see if predictions made 2 years ago have lived up to the hype.

Serendipity in a backyard bird bath
When Geoff Smith investigated the bacteria in his backyard bird bath he didn’t realise he was about to stumble on an anti-malarial and anti-cancer agent, writes Madeleine Lowe.

BIOSPHERE

New genes rescue snake population
The introduction of new genes into an inbred snake colony may benefit other declining animal populations, reports Peter Pockley.

Today shapes tomorrow
Jonathon Howard describes the construction of a campus guided by the principles of ecologically sustainable development.

INSIGHT

Nossal kneads social issues
Sir Gustav Nossal will use his Australian of the Year award to further several important causes, writes Peter Pockley.

Innovation Summit: Mountain or molehill?
It will take some time for action to back the rhetoric of last month’s Innovation Summit, reports Peter Pockley.

SERIAL

Journalism & Science: Clashes of Professionalism
Rosslyn Reed talks to scientists and journalists and discovers suspicion and lack of confidence in each other’s integrity.

UPDATE

Your computer’s about to get tiny

Bunny farming growing in leaps and bounds

CSIRO CEO loses cancer battle

Maths solution to football finals fiasco

Clues to rainbow serpent from fossil find

Laboratory hit by volcano, landslide and tidal wave

Coffee cure for heavy metal contamination

Mapping the Earth from space

Lifestyle can retard neurological disease

Ember clues to spotfires

Adelaide trials water reuse technique

Seawater fit for drinking

Growth factors to treat brain-damaged babies

Plug & Power to overcome electricity restrictions

Astronomers find the key

Promise for solar energy storage

Hormone replacement reduces mammogram effectiveness

Have you taken your medicine?

Science courses broaden

BRIEFS

Monsanto name change

1990s the hottest

Cancer drug goes on trial

Feeling queasy? Aye, aye, Captain!

Safe syringes

Optiscan prognosis positive

Fowl pox virus delivers vaccine

Innovations building opened

Newcastle University joins ASC

Sub-Antarctic plants on the menu