Detecting the very first light from the first star will enable us to witness the dawn of creation according to Peter Quinn, Professor of Astronomy at The University of Western Australia, who will present a fascinating insight into the most recent advances in his field at the 2007 Ian Constable Lecture next week.

This development is thanks to a new telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). WA is the front-runner in an international competition to host the SKA.

Canola breeders will soon know for the first time exactly how host resistance in their varieties responds to the fungal parasite that causes blackleg disease of canola crops across Australia.

The most damaging disease of canola worldwide, blackleg caused the total collapse of WA’s canola industry in the 1970s and remains the number one threat to canola production.

Archaeologists from Australia’s leading universities are urging a major rethink about the way archaeology education is funded in Australia’s higher education system.

World expert on greenhouse gas emission trading schemes and Reserve Bank Board Member, Professor Warwick McKibbin will present the 2007 Shann Memorial Lecture next Thursday, August 30, 2007, at 6.30pm

WA’s road verges could hold the key to increasing biodiversity and
preventing the extinction of native plant species, according to the