Technology - general

Algorithm could streamline harvesting of hand-picked crops

13 Mar 2018

Off-the-shelf smart devices found easy to hack

13 Mar 2018

Agricultural robot speeds data collection, analyses of crops as they grow

13 Mar 2018

Using artificial intelligence to investigate illegal wildlife trade on social media

13 Mar 2018

Efficient monitoring of illegal wildlife trade on social media is crucial for conserving biodiversity

CNT membranes used to make carbon-zero fuels using CO2 removed from air

12 Mar 2018

How does the brain's spatial map change when we change the shape of the room?

10 Mar 2018

Viable nuclear fusion power plant may be only 15 years away

09 Mar 2018

Australian scientists make two atom qubits “talk” to each other

08 Mar 2018

Researchers make proton-battery breakthrough

08 Mar 2018

Researchers have demonstrated for the first time a working rechargeable "proton battery" that could re-wire how we power our homes, vehicles and devices

Smart glass made better, and cheaper

08 Mar 2018

Rare mineral discovered in plants for first time

07 Mar 2018

Scientists have found that the mineral vaterite, a polymorph of calcium carbonate, and rarely found in a naturally occuring state one Earth, is a dominant component of the protective silvery-white crust that forms on the leaves of a number of alpine plant

Rare mineral discovered in plants for first time

07 Mar 2018

Scientists have found that the mineral vaterite, a polymorph of calcium carbonate, and rarely found in a naturally occuring state one Earth, is a dominant component of the protective silvery-white crust that forms on the leaves of a number of alpine plant

Lithium-related discovery could extend battery life and improve safety

07 Mar 2018

Scientists engineer crops to conserve water, resist drought

07 Mar 2018

Google signs AI contract with US military in a policy departure

07 Mar 2018

BlackBerry files suit against Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram over patents

07 Mar 2018

Lens-free fluorescent microscope

06 Mar 2018

Hawking explains nothing existed at singularity

05 Mar 2018

Mapping nanoscale chemical reactions inside batteries in 3-D

05 Mar 2018

Researchers want to teach computers to learn like humans

05 Mar 2018

Musk’s Tesla may have carried largest load of bacteria into space

03 Mar 2018

Scientists say NASA understands the danger of land-borne bacteria falling on other planets and therefore ensures that all it spacecraft sent to the Moon or Mars, are processed and sterilised, unlike Musk's Tesla Roadster, which was launched by the Space Explorer in February

Researchers use recycled carbon fibre to improve permeable pavements

01 Mar 2018

Researchers use recycled carbon fibre to improve permeable pavements

01 Mar 2018

The moon formed inside a vaporised Earth synestia

01 Mar 2018

Scientists create new state of matter

28 Feb 2018