Other exciting applications are under study A new nanostructured material with applications that could include reducing condensation in airplane cabins and enabling certain medical tests wit... Read more
Nanosatellites are smartphone-sized spacecraft that can perform simple, yet valuable, space missions. Dozens of these little vehicles are now tirelessly orbiting the earth performing valuabl... Read more
The Alcubierre warp drive concept is capable of moving a spaceship, within an enclosed bubble of space-time At the start of 2013, a research paper was submitted to the Astrophysical Journal ... Read more
Australia is one of the leaders in the field Moving carefully along a row of apple trees, two of Australia’s newest agricultural workers check if the fruit is ripe or the soil needs wa... Read more
Australia’s potential to become the ‘food bowl’ of Asia has triggered a drive to develop robots for use in farming and agriculture and University of Sydney mechatronics exp... Read more
Rooftop panels could reach a record-breaking 40 percent efficiency Low cost solar cells suitable for rooftop panels could reach a record-breaking 40 percent efficiency following an early sta... Read more