A new exhibition celebrating the achievements of female scientists has opened in Canberra as part of National Science week and in a bid to attract more women into the profession.

While a full sized invisibility cloak is still science fiction, research into metamaterials have potentially brought us a little closer to bending light to achieve invisibility cloaking.

My research centres on the behaviour of the prime numbers. This is a really exciting area of maths where chaos and order seem to get along with each other quite well.

Third year student An Ran Chen isn’t afraid to spread her wings to discover new things. After moving from New Zealand to study mathematics at ANU, An Ran has explored philosophy and anthropology and gone on exchange to Budapest.

Dr Graham Walker has taken his inspiring science shows to 41,000 children in Africa as part of an 11-week tour through five countries.