Technology in the last 30 years has been astonishing and continuously improving! Wake up in the morning and you can talk to a friend halfway around the world, check stocks in Shanghai or even buy an import CD from Germany! You go into the kitchen and when you cook up a meal, it can be [...]

When the first component technologies of the cell phone were being developed by Bell Labs and Motorola in the 1960s and 1970s, neither company knew what kind of a technological bombshell they were holding in their hands. From the initial offerings of bag phones and other in-car systems to the small pocket-sized cellular phones we [...]

Science has changed our world in so many ways, and some inventions have forever changed the way our world works and is run. Cars for example, have forever changed transportation, and continue to change it. Each day new cars are created with better fuel options, and smoother safer rides. Imagine if we still rode horses [...]

Getting or exchanging links from your suppliers is one way to increase the SEO of your website. It has a positive impact and helps bring traffic to both websites, and is an activity worth the time and effort to do. Permanent links give the best results. If you use a web directory, it may be [...]

Modern science is based on the scientific method and experimental design. So when scientific concepts are beyond our powers of observation, it becomes much harder to find out how they work. For this reason, Galileo and many other scientists like him believed that light traveled instantaneously.

The list of Australian organisations dedicated to science in both government and private sectors is extensive. It includes: Australian Academy of Science Australian Antarctic Division Australian Foundation for Science Australian Institute of Marine Science Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation Australian Science Communicators Australian Science [...]

Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet: immunology and virology Professor Dorothy Hill: geology and palaeontology Professor Robert Street: development and properties of magnetic materials Professor David Craig: Theoretical chemistry Professor Brian Anderson: control systems; signal processing; telecommunications Professor Richard Stanton: metallic ore deposits; volcanic and metamorphic geochemistry Dr Patricia Woolley: Zoology

There are several factors that govern the premium rates that one will have to pay in order to gain insurance coverage. Insurance companies will often evaluate these factors in order to predict the amount of risk that the customer represents, resulting in a premium rate that reflects said amount of risk. These factors often include [...]

I used to feel sorry for sheep standing in the blinding heat of the Australian outback – imagine wearing a thick jumper all day when it is over 35oC! Now I suspect they actually feel sorry for me. There are over a billion sheep living on this planet today, made up of hundreds of different [...]

Now that spring has arrived, gardeners all over Australia are getting out their spades and putting on their gloves to clear any weeds that have sprouted in their vege patch during winter. Yet a bigger problem lurks over the back fence. As with our gardens, our national parks can suffer from nasty weeds. And unfortunately, [...]