November 2023 - Victoria & Space
Studying the night sky has a very long history in Victoria, from First Peoples' use of the stars for meteorology, navigation, and story-telling, through to measuring dark matter in Stawell, and everything in between. This month we look at the ongoing work in Victoria to further understand everything beyond Earth’s atmosphere, as well as how our changing climate is affecting glaciers, ice sheets and cloud formation in the Southern Ocean.
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From the groundbreaking chemistry of Melbourne’s Nobel Prize-winning Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) to microplastics trapped in extreme ocean depths, researchers across Australia are reshaping how we build, recycle, and re-engineer materials. Dive into the cutting-edge local science driving sustainable agriculture, AI-designed industrial alloys, synchrotron-based polymer research, and bio-plastics generated directly from Victorian food waste.
Australians are living longer. The whole nation is ageing. But how we age is not just a matter for senior citizens. The latest research shows that making the right lifestyle choices when we are young increases the chances of a healthy old age. And the findings are remarkable consistent. It’s all based around exercise, diet, sleep and social connections. Read all about it in this issue of Science Victoria.