Posts by Jesse Hawley

Fostering space technology to get us to the stars

Prestigious aerospace awards, Earth observation projects, and cultivating Australian space start-ups—Kimberley Clayfield's star-studded portfolio is a win for Australian space science.

A foundation of experience for developing our place in space | Dave Williams

With a wealth of knowledge on the global space industry, Dave Williams tells us about his career and why Australia is well-placed as a space-bound nation.

Meet Our Robot Family

We’re developing robotic systems that help humans perform dangerous tasks, and expanding the Australian robotics industry

Social media is a window to privacy’s biggest issues

Why can't we stop talking about Facebook? We explore why social has become our window to privacy issues, and what this means for Australia's data-driven near-future.

How to get to Australia … more than 50,000 years ago

The first people to make it to Australia could have navigated their way by sea crossing, reaching the north-west coastline of the island continent.

Five hearty facts about your ticker

Our hearts are amazing, finely tuned pumps that work tirelessly to keep us alive. Read on to learn a few choice facts about your ticker.

Paulo de Souza, Opportunity Mars rover, bees with backpacks

Paulo de Souza’s science at the pub: Vanishing bees and Mars’ damp, dark past

Catch Professor de Souza’s talk at the pub, from micro-sensors hitched to honeybees to water-detecting gear on Mars rover Opportunity—it'll be a night to remember.

It will take decades, but the Murray Darling Basin Plan is delivering environmental improvements

The Murray-Darling Basin Plan has been politically fraught and mired in scandal. But environmental monitoring suggests that the health of the rivers is indeed improving – even if it will take decades.

From insect evolution to gut health entrepreneur: Dr Mary Webberley—Breakout Female Scientist 2018

From her research on insect evolution to her work with Noisy Guts developing an acoustic belt that 'hears' gut disorders, Dr Mary Webberley has had a rich research history and is now the winner of the 2018 Breakout Female Scientist Award at ON Accelerator.

Teams of scientists + business mentors = ON Demo Night 2018

What happens when you pair up teams of scientists with business mentors and set them developing for three months? ON Accelerate.

a pint glass of beer on a bar

Pint of Science: Sometimes science is better over a beer

Bringing scientists to your local pub to present their latest discoveries and make you fall in love with science.

Devourer of worlds: two of the worst pests have hybridised into a global ‘mega-pest’

The remarkably flexible cotton bollworm has overcome most insecticides and devoured global crop staples, and has now landed on the previously untarnished New World, there, with hybridisation now possible—it's a race against time for researchers to map its genome and find the genetic flaws to put a halt on its calamitous appetite.