Is Down Under the tops?

How hot is it Down Under?

This editorial introduces the 2-part special issue on Temperature-related Sciences in Australia and New Zealand within the journal Temperature ; Part 1: Volume 3, Issue 2 and Part 2: Volume 3, Issue 3. The question posed, “How hot is it Down Under?,” and indeed possible answer(s) can be construed in different ways depending on one’s standpoint. For example, Terra Australis (Latin: “southern lan...

Developmental neurobiology: Notch is tops in the developing brain

Signalling through the cell-surface receptor molecule Notch may regulate oligodendrocyte differentiation, and consequently help determine the timing, and perhaps the pattern, of myelination in the developing vertebrate central nervous system.

A dean down under.

South Australia is a progressive state. It has a Premier who seems to be an intelligent intellectual. He heads a Labour government, which therefore has some accord with the central Commonwealth Government of Mr. Gough Whitlam. Our premier, Mr. Don Dunstan, known as "Donnie," is a lawyer who was able to devote an hour's television programme to poetry and his delight in it, and he recited it too....

Science down under

Your Grandpa Syd (who I hope won't mind my writing to you in this vein) mentioned that you were thinking about a career in Australia, now that your PhD is out of the way, so I'll give the low-down from an insider's point of view. I'll be quite frank, and what I have to tell you might bruise a few egos, so please try to keep it confidential. Of course there are good things about doing science in...

Editorial--ICOPA down under.