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Every Facebook profile comes with a profile picture, but how can we prevent these often personal photos from being stolen?
Sick of your phone dying? There are simple ways to extend the life of your phone’s battery.
Whether you’re talking about climate change, vaccination or agriculture, the term “anti-science” means different things in different political contexts.
Cyber Security Summer School is a chance for researchers to test their skills during live penetration testing.
High energy, high power and endless life cycles: not all batteries are created equal.
The location of a dinosaur find on a remote Queensland sheep station was lost for almost 80 years. But the site was rediscovered, and details are now emerging about the make up of the new dinosaur.
New research reveals that New Zealand once had its own species of black swan, the Poūwa.
We need to think about the raw materials of batteries – where they come from and their environmental cost.
Tough action is promised against companies that offer faster internet speeds than they can deliver over the NBN. But it’s up to consumers to monitor and report on any speed issues.
Batteries that can self-sustain are needed for long-term animal tracking as well as shipping and logistics.
Some people think the sky is blue because of sunlight reflected off the ocean and back into the sky. But that’s not the real reason.
It promises to be one of the brightest objects in the night sky once the Mayak satellite unfolds a giant pyramid reflector. But what is it going to do?
3D bioprinting of living cells and materials may contribute to faster and cheaper ways to create effective new drugs - and even reduce animal testing.
Emerging industries, from energy storage to electric cars, will need longer lasting batteries. Watching batteries in action will help us build them.
Visual illusions provide an inkling of the mental processing that delivers our experience of the world.
Thousands of people were caught in an online prank where they unknowingly agreed to clean public loos, because they didn’t read the small-print. But then again, who does?
The Australian government is using spyware. Is that legal?
Scientists continue to invent new colours for new applications thanks to nanoscale structures.
A new study pushes back the first known evidence of human activity in Australia – to 65,000 years ago.
The problems some people had trying to watch Game of Thrones via the internet shows we still have a long way to go before we can live-stream major events to a mass online audience.
What caused the Big Bang is still a mystery. And that’s just one of the many unanswered questions, in spite of everything we do know about the birth of the Universe.
We don’t need another review of Australia’s space industry, we just need a space agency.
Most people have never heard of the software that makes up the machinery of the internet
- especially the tools that keep us safe.
Not everyone agrees on how artificial intelligence will change the way we live. But it’s not all doom and gloom either.