A Clearer Picture On Carbon Trade

BUSINESS is a gamble, and any attempt at economic planning is also a gamble. When trying to plan an economic path to counter adverse climate change from carbon emissions, it is a double or triple gamble: that the science about the linkage between human activity and climate are right, that new pricing mechanisms will operate in the desired way and not cause economic devastation, and finally that everyone else will join the new system.

Young Einsteins Take Centre Stage

THE region's future science boffins will display their work at tomorrow's Illawarra Coal Regional Science Fair at the University of Wollongong.

Finding Faith In A Sunnier Place

A love of life and science helps Snow Patrol to change tack, writes Craig Mathieson.

Hail To The Chief Of Science

TURNING problems such as climate change into business opportunities for the state will be a priority of its first chief scientist and scientific engineer, Mary O'Kane.

Young Einsteins Savour Science

EINSTEIN once said it was the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in knowledge, and that joy was awakened in Berkeley Public School students with a bang yesterday.

A Heated Exchange

The late British financial visionary Baron Lionel Charles Robbins described economics as the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses. Huh?

Win For Frazer

A MAN who created four vaccines to fight cervical cancer has been awarded the Prime Minister's Prize for Science.

Aussie Kids Don't Know About Tough

ENGLISH, maths, science, homework. So you think you've got it tough. Imagine starting school at 8.20am knowing your day won't finish until close to midnight.

Future Farms Over Our Heads

SYDNEY must join a network of global cities where urban farmers grow produce on rooftops, a leading science commentator says.

Mr Darwin's Incredible Shrinking World: Science And Technology In 1859

Mr Darwin's Incredible Shrinking World: Science and Technology in 1859 Peter Macinnis Murdoch Books, $29.95

Call For Research Finance

STATE Science and Medical Research Minister Tony Stewart is supporting the Hunter Medical Research Institute's push for $35 million in federal funding for a new clinical research and development building.