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There is much excitement about graphene, a material only a single carbon-atom thick, but finding ways to do something with it that’s affordable have always been a challenge.
The search for life on other planets gets a boost thanks to an old calculation that found Uranus in our solar system.
Social media companies and the law are both beginning to seriously combat revenge porn.
An estimated A$75,000 is lost by Australians everyday to online fraud but police are having some success in alerting people before they even know they’re being scammed.
As hackers get more sophisticated in their cyber crime efforts we need to look to new technology to make our systems more secure, and potentially unhackable. So how can quantum physics help?
Many people fear technology is making us dumber, and they have great reservations about children using smartphones or computers. But technology ought to be embraced, particularly by kids.
Several dwarf galaxies have been discovered close to our own Milky Way and are adding to our understanding of how galaxies form. But why haven’t astronomers seen them before?
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Should we be worried that ever more devices and software applications are made specifically for an increasingly younger audience?
The National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy funds 27 individual facilities that provide a wide range of services to Australian scientists.
Forensics is changing in the digital age, and the legal system is still catching up in terms of how it uses digital evidence.
The government believes innovation will be crucial to our future productivity, yet it is threatening cuts to research infrastructure that is instrumental to promoting innovation and new technologies.
Trees are more like us than you might think. They even have a pulse. They just operate over much slower timescales.
An Australian senator says the evidence on who should be recognised as the First Australians is only “conjecture”. So what does the evidence really say?
The age of early humans has just been pushed back further than first thought thanks to the discovery of an ancient jaw bone in Africa. So just how old are early humans?
A special Pi Day this year for those who celebrate this remarkable number on March 14, a date that can be written 3/14. Given 3.14 is Pi to two decimal places, what happens when you add in the year?
There is only so much government and business can do to keep us safe online. Ultimately we need to take personal responsibility for how we use the internet.
With the arrival of Netflix and competition from two other new video-on-demand services, television will never be the same in Australia.
The Formula 1 season begins in Melbourne this week and a number of changes have been made following the tragic accident last year which has left one driver still in a coma.
Preventing and responding to the hacking epidemic is not a problem for one group or organisation to solve. And what happens in the first 72 hours can make all the difference.
Apple’s ability to mesh technology with beautiful design will be put to the test in its much anticipated Apple Watch, destined to become the must have high-tech fashion item.
The NCRIS-funded Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) benefits pastoralists, business, tourism and Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory. Cutting it will hurt them all.
Most science communication appeals to those who already love science. It’s harder, but important, to reach out to the disengaged too.
If machines run by artificial intelligence take over the world it’s only because we programmed them to do so. So how can fuzzy logic help us prevent that?
Technology is making it possible to communicate thought directly from one brain to another.