Posts by Alex Mead

Controlling Cane Toads through genetic editing

ABC Online, Other, 08/02/2021 CRISPR, the genetic editing technology taking science by storm. Mark Tizard, Team Leader and Principal Research […]

Saving the Last Handfish

Ocean Geographic Society, Other, 03/02/2021 I vividly recall uncovering my first Red Handfish from beneath a tangled mess of seaweed. […]

Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Novavax: How COVID-19 vaccines are made

ABC Online, Other, 04/02/2021, Belinda Smith More than 100 million people across 66 countries have received at least one COVID-19 […]

Chatbot helps patients and families with medical info

2SER 107.3, Other, 05/02/2021 The CSIRO and other members of the Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance have created a chatbot that […]

CSIRO teams up with AFAC to develop cutting-edge bushfire prediction technology

@AuManufacturing, Other, 05/02/2021 Under the agreement, the two parties will develop a state-of-the-art bushfire simulation tool based on CSIRO’s Spark’ […]

Pleiades: The history behind how the constellation got named seven sisters

republicworld.com, Other, 05/02/2021 People have known about the Pleiades constellation from thousands of years. An astrophysicist, Ray Norris of the […]

Square Kilometre Array Observatory launched: Everything to know about the largest radio telescope mission

Business Journal, business-journal.in, 06/02/2021 Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope: This week, an intergovernmental organisation called the SKA Observatory was launched […]

Victoria gives $10m for hydrogen hub which will study storage and clean energy vehicles

theguardian.com, Other, 07/02/2021 The Victorian government has given $10m for a hub in Melbourne’s south-east that will test and improve […]

Invasive species put under spotlight in photo competition

Stock Journal Australia, Other, 02/02/2021, Vanessa Binks This year's Centre for Invasive Species Solutions Feral Photo and Video competition is […]