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GEOTHERMAL DRILLING ANNOUNCEMENT
RAPID ROUNDUP: Energy experts react to the federal government's announcement that it will fund $50 million towards geothermal drilling.
Wed 20 Aug 08

MOISTURISERS INCREASE RISK OF SKIN CANCER IN UV-RADIATION TREATED MICE
RAPID ROUNDUP: New research implicates several moisturisers in increasing skin cancer development in mice.
Fri 15 Aug 08

HUMANS RESPONSIBLE FOR MEGAFAUNA EXTINCTION
RAPID ROUNDUP: Experts respond to new research implicating humans in the extinction of megafauna.
Mon 11 Aug 08

HUMANS RESPONSIBLE FOR MEGAFAUNA EXTINCTION
ONLINE BRIEFING: Join the authors of a new Australian study which implicates humans in prehistoric animal extinctions
Mon 11 Aug 08 at 10.30am

DRUGS AT THE OLYMPICS
ONLINE BRIEFING : Join a group of leading Australian experts online to discuss the facts on performance enhancing drugs; the cheats, the risks, the tests and the chances of fair play.
Mon 4 Aug 08 at 10.30am AEST

WATER ON MARS
RAPID ROUNDUP: An Australian expert responds to the news that water has been discovered on Mars
Fri 1 Aug 08

GENETICS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA
RAPID ROUNDUP: Australian experts comment on new research published in Nature which indentifies areas of the genome linked to schizphrenia.
Thurs 31 July 08

QANTAS PLANE DEPRESSURISATION
RAPID ROUNDUP: Experts comment on rapid aircraft cabin depressurisation after media reports of an incident involving a Qantas plane en route from London to Melbourne.
Fri 25 July 08

CAN EFFECTIVE HIV TREATMENT REALLY STOP INFECTION?
ONLINE BRIEFING: New Australian research published in The Lancet questions whether effective HIV treatment stops infection.
Fri 25 July 08 at 10am AEST

30 YEARS OF IVF
RAPID ROUNDUP: Experts comment on how far IVF has come since the first test tube baby was born in 1978 and look at what the future may hold.
Thu 24 July 08