On 29th October, 2004, a changing of the guard occurred when the RSBS Soccer team won the final of the ANU Soccer (Purple Shins) Competition, bringing the purple shins trophy home to RSBS for the first time since 1975.

The lead up to the final showed RSBS defeating the 4 year reigning champions F&S, followed by RSC in a close semi-final resolved through a penalty shootout........Full Story

(Posted 2/12/2004)

Hearing: Travelling Wave or Resonance?

Sitting in the enveloping silence of an anechoic chamber, or other quiet spot, you soon become aware that the ear makes its own distinctive sounds. Whistling, buzzing, hissing, often a chiming chorus of many tones—such continuous sounds seem remarkably nonbiological, perhaps more in the realm of the electronic.

Even more remarkable, put a sensitive microphone in the ear canal and you will usually pick up an objective counterpart of that subjective experience [click to hear example]. Now known in auditory science as spontaneous otoacoustic emission..... Full Story

(Posted 20/10/2004)

Scent-Sational Source of Memory Clues

Bees are more sophisticated than you think. Already proving inspirational for automated robotics, now they are going some way to helping us better understand memory.

The parts of the brain responsible for memory have long remained intriguing and undiscovered, but ANU scientists have taken a fresh step in unravelling the secret. Scientists have found that honeybees, Apis mellifera, can be trained by scent to recall and fly to a specific nectar location — a finding with potentially significant implications for understanding memory, memory degeneration and associative recall in humans..... Full Story

(Posted 24/8/2004)

RSBS Director Recognised for Outstanding Contributions to Vision and Ophthalmology.

Ludwig von Sallman Prize in Vision and Opthalmology 2004.

The von Sallman Prize is awarded biennially, to recognise "outstanding contributions to vision and ophthalmology", by ISER (the International Society for Eye Research), in cooperation with the Ludwig von Sallman Trust, which is based in the United States.... Full Story

(Posted 1/8/2004)

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