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Get your science out there!

9 April 2008

Scientists with PhDs can enter Fresh Science 2008 and experience a science communication boot camp.

Sea slug love drug … brains learn better at night… tuna research in 350-tonne waterbed… slime wars… female mice turn male… orchids' sneaky sex tricks …

These were some of the stories of fresh science we heard about in 2007.

Are you a scientist who was awarded a PhD less than five years ago? Do you have interesting results that have not received any publicity? Why not enter Fresh Science and tell your story?

Fresh Science is a national competition that identifies new and interesting research by early-career scientists around the country. The stories are released to the media before, during, and after National Science Week in August.

Sixteen scientists are selected from more than 80 nominations. Fresh Science will take place between Monday 16 June and Thursday 19 June.

Finalists receive a day of media training in Melbourne after which they present their work to the media, school students, scientists, government and industry over three days in what's described by some as a boot camp in science communication.

Previous Fresh Scientists have attracted national and international interest resulting in hundreds of media stories. The Fresh Scientists will also have the chance to win a one-year subscription to NewScientist magazine and a one-week internship with The Australian newspaper.

Nominations close on 1 May 2008. For more information visit the Fresh Science website.

National Science Week runs from Saturday 16 August to Sunday 24 August 2008.