More than 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 calculations – in a second. At one million trillion, it will have to be the work rate of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope’s supercomputer... Read more
A wireless vibration sensor being developed by a Victoria University student could provide a low-cost solution for engineers to monitor the damage of buildings affected by earthquakes. Danie... Read more
This is incredible. Taken by the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) at the ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile, this 108,500×81,500-pixel image is an inter... Read more
It seems that sugar may be the missing ingredient for building rechargeable batteries that are more robust, cheaper, and capable of storing more energy. Researchers at the Tokyo University o... Read more
The ecological recovery at some of our sandy beach sites was remarkable The reappearance of long-forgotten habitats and the resurgence of species unseen for years may not be among the expect... Read more
The twenty-nine-year-old signed on with Start-Up Chile (SUP) Just over a year ago, George Cadena from Los Angeles, California, packed up his solar-panel startup Aeterna Sol and hit th... Read more
Regions all over the world have spent millions—sometimes billions—of dollars trying to create their own Silicon Valley. They drank the same Kool-Aid and used the same recipe: start with a re... Read more