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Check out some of this year's highly commended entries in the University of Sydney Sleek Geeks Eureka School Prize!Sleek Geeks Schools' Video Prize

Wednesday, 28 July 2010
Eureka Awards Check out some of the highly commended entries in this year's Sleek Geek's Schools' Video Prize and stay tuned! Winners will be announced on 17 August.
Subjects: science-and-technology, sleekgeeks

Researchers at the LHC say they are now entering 'new territory' in the world of particle physics Scientists inch towards Higgs Boson

Tuesday, 27 July 2010
Scientists working with particle accelerators in Europe and the United States say they may be closing in on the elusive Higgs Boson believed crucial to forming the cosmos after the Big Bang.
Subjects: science-and-technology, physics, research-organisations Locations: france

Food, exercise and energy

Friday, 23 July 2010Portable document format 367K
Lesson Plan Students use nutrition information to calculate the number of teaspoons of fat and sugar in their favourite food and drinks.
Subjects: health, diet-and-nutrition, science-and-technology, biology, weird-and-wonderful, surfingscientist, lessonplans

Artist's impression showing how small our Sun (yellow) is compared to 'blue dwarf' stars and the 300-solar-mass star R136a1 Scientists find 'monster' star

Thursday, 22 July 2010Article has photo slideshow
Astronomers have found the largest star yet detected - up to 20 million times brighter than the Sun - using the Very Large Telescope in Chile.
Subjects: science-and-technology, astronomy-space, stars Locations: chile

Animal accents and sweet sugar

Thursday, 22 July 2010Article has audio
Dr Karl on triple j Do animals in different countries have different accents? What's the difference between white and brown sugar? If Jupiter is a gas planet, why can we see the impact of meteorites on its surface?
Subjects: health, exercise-and-fitness, diet-and-nutrition, science-and-technology, animals, astronomy-space, chemistry, energy, physics, weird-and-wonderful

Scientists say a chicken protein plays a vital role in forming the egg.Scientists think chicken came first

Thursday, 15 July 2010
British scientists think they have the answer to the age-old question of whether the chicken or the egg came first.
Subjects: human-interest, animals, offbeat, science-and-technology, research, weird-and-wonderful Locations: united-kingdom, england

Dr Paul Gardner-Stephen gets his mobile to work in remote territoryMobile invention could be desert lifeline

Monday, 12 July 2010Article has audio
Australian researchers develop software to let mobile phones communicate with each other where there is no reception.
Subjects: disasters-and-accidents, emergency-planning, information-and-communication, mobile-phones, wireless-technology, rural, science-and-technology, computers-and-technology, inventions Locations: australia, sa, adelaide-5000, port-augusta-5700

Tired eyes and bush fires

Thursday, 8 July 2010Article has audio
Dr Karl on triple j Why do we get bags under our eyes when we are tired? Can you use salt water to put out bush fires? Can second-hand smoke cause heart disease?
Subjects: bushfire, health, smoking, science-and-technology, biology, botany, neuroscience, physics, weird-and-wonderful, scienceontriplej

What's going on in those wires that makes our heaters hot and our fans blow?How electricity makes things work

Wednesday, 7 July 2010
Bernie's Basics Without electricity our appliances are just lumps of plastic and metal. But what does electricity really do? How does it make things work?
Subjects: electronics, science-and-technology, energy, engineering, information-technology, physics, basics

Rising CO2 levels could see some small fish engage in 'risky' behaviour Rising CO2 may lead Nemo to danger

Wednesday, 7 July 2010
Increasing CO2 levels could have an unexpected effect on clownfish, by making them indulge in risky behaviour, say researchers.
Subjects: environment, climate-change, science-and-technology, animals, animal-behaviour, fish Locations: james-cook-university-townsville-4811

Not all outcomes require thinking, according to a review of studies into behavioural psychology Some outcomes require no thought: review

Tuesday, 6 July 2010
We may not have as much conscious control over our actions and behaviour as we think, say Dutch psychologists.
Subjects: science-and-technology, anthropology-and-sociology, psychology Locations: the-university-of-sydney-2006, netherlands

The universe seen through the microwave eyes of the Planck telescope Planck captures 'embers' of Big Bang

Tuesday, 6 July 2010Article has video
A space telescope designed to peer into the enigma of the Big Bang has served up its first overall image of the cosmos, say scientists.
Subjects: science-and-technology, astronomy-space, telescopes, the-universe Locations: european-union

The Kaguya mission provided high resolution imagery of the Moon Japanese probe yields insights into Moon

Monday, 5 July 2010
Japanese astronomers say they have found traces of a mineral that adds an important piece of knowledge to the puzzle of the Moon's geological past.
Subjects: science-and-technology, astronomy-space, geology, the-moon Locations: japan

Paraguay's Oscar Cardozo outsmarts Japan's goalkeeper Eiji Kawashima to score the winning goal Penalty kicks may be predictable: study

Friday, 2 July 2010
In soccer, some games are decided on a penalty kick. Now, new research might give goalies the upper hand.
Subjects: science-and-technology, sport, soccer Locations: united-states

Magnetic metals and tattoo theories

Thursday, 1 July 2010Article has audio
Dr Karl on triplej Why are some metals magnetic and other metals are not? Does tattooed skin act as a barrier for skin cancer? Why isn't Pluto a planet anymore?
Subjects: exercise-and-fitness, skin-cancer, science-and-technology, astronomy-space, physics, weird-and-wonderful, alcohol, nanotechnology, scienceontriplej, drkarl

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Sleek Geeks Video Prize

The 2010 primary and secondary school Eureka Awards finalists have been announced. Watch some of Australia's amazing young science minds in action!