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![]() ![]() Cosmos OnlineFinding the invisibleMasters student Suryashree Aniyan spends her summer holiday hunting supermassive black holes. The magic of an augmented mapEver wanted to receive your weather information in a more realistic and up-to-date fashion? Computer sciences student Jessica Clarke has developed an iPad app that makes that dream an augmented reality. Unravelling mammoth bloodAlan Cooper has spent his career using DNA to investigate the evolutionary mysteries that have left others puzzled, such as how mammoths survived in such frigid environments. Probing ancient DNAEvolutionary biologist Jeremy Austin studies ancient DNA to answer the big questions. Down to the wireThe fabrication of the thinnest-ever conducting silicon wire is providing the next step towards the world's first quantum computer, thanks to PhD student Bent Weber. Sweating the (very) small stuffThe forces that interest experimental physicist Michael Biercuk are about a septillion times smaller than the weight of a feather. Hitting a moving targetMedical physicist Paul Keall has spent much of his career using medical imaging to chase tumours and improve the accuracy of radiation therapy. To kill a cancer cellTo kill cells that rapidly divide, like those in cancerous tumours, James Matthews had to change the way he thought about biology. Secret life of the seabedGeotechnical engineer Dave White investigates the often surprising behaviour of seabed sediments. Engineering smarter drug deliveryIn the drug delivery world, "The body is a very difficult thing to trick," says material scientist Georgina Such. Designer drugs for cancerMedicinal chemist Jason Smith has removed cancer's invisibility cloak by identifying four drug candidates that may slow tumour growth. Filming the ocean blueHow the marine biologist who can invent his own underwater video equipment is making a difference in the industry. The Lizard ManTariq Ezaz is one of Australia's foremost experts on sex determination in dragon lizards, discovering that a combination of temperature and genes can determine gender. Better drugs, fewer side effectsKevin Pfleger spends his days disentangling the complicated web of signalling systems in our bodies to develop better, safer drugs with a cutting-edge technology, GPCR-HIT. Reading the EarthIf you want to know whether or not Antarctica is really melting and if ocean levels are rising, Paul Tregoning has the answers. |
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