A future aim is to try to convert the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, into the renewable fuel, methanol, much more efficiently. Taking their inspiration from Nature, scientists at... Read more
Plans to ‘de-extinct’ other extinct animals and plants The genome of an extinct Australian frog has been revived and reactivated by a team of scientists using sophisticated cloning... Read more
A UNSW researcher is involved in two research breakthroughs which exploit quantum behaviour for computing and other applications. Andrew Dzurak of the University of New South Wales... Read more
Drugs that combat ageing may be available within five years, following landmark work led by an Australian researcher. The work, published in the March 8 issue of Science, finally p... Read more
“The new materials that could be generated by this exciting strategy could provide practical solutions to meet many of the energy targets set by the US Department of Energy” For th... Read more
An Australian-led research team said Thursday they had made a technological breakthrough in the race for a quantum supercomputer that could revolutionise data encryption and medici... Read more
Could herald significant advances in the design of novel hydrogen storage materials For the first time, engineers at the University of New South Wales have demonstrated that hydrog... Read more
This finding has wide implications for future technology Chemists at UCL have discovered a new property of flames, which allows them to control reactions at a solid surface in a fl... Read more
New finding could help circuits keep shrinking In 1959 physicist Richard Feynman issued a famed address at a meeting of the American Physical Society, a talk entitled... Read more
Industrial Design student Justine Smith has looked to new technology for a solution to one of the most common ailments in the world today – chronic back pain. The result is Spinovo... Read more
Star Trek’s Scotty was adamant that you “canna change the laws of physics,” but, according to a report from a team of astrophysicists based in Australia and England, that could be... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Researchers have shown off a transistor made from just seven atoms that could be used to create smaller, more powerful computers. Transistors are tiny switches... Read more
Many people want to do their bit to help save the planet, or to simply get fit, by riding a bike instead of using their vehicle. However, traveling on the road when the sun goes do... Read more
