A research group of Australian scientists have managed to observe T-cells which could lead to major breakthroughs in cancer research.
Australia envisions becoming a world-leading digital economy by the end of the decade by fully realising the benefits of the National Broadband Network (NBN).
Scientists from King's College London and the University of Oxford have found that a gene linked to type 2 diabetes and cholesterol is a master trans regulator, which controls other genes found within fat in the body.
Julian Assange, WikiLeaks' Australian founder, was given a peace award on Tuesday for "exceptional courage in pursuit of human rights."
Security researchers at Symantec sad a programming bug on Facebook’s website may have unintentionally given advertisers and others access to a bunch of personal information. This issue may have affected almost 100,000 Facebook applications for now.
Dutch researchers have discovered what may well be the fastest and most dense digital storage method by disturbing the direction of an atom's magnetic field. Although still in its early experimental stages, the technology already promises the potential for data storage devices reading and writing at the terahertz range or about 1,000 times faster than current technology.
Research into lithium-air batteries that have the same energy density as gasoline, and with potential use in tractor trailers, is actively being investigated by Risø DTU, the National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy of the Technical University of Denmark. The research aims to remove the Achilles' heel of the electric car which is the limited energy density of today's batteries, which will only sustain short drives.
Initially thought to be a danger only in hospitals, bacteria with the antibiotic-proof gene than can be horizontally transferred to other bacteria has been found in New Delhi's tap water network by researchers from the University of Cardiff led by Dr. Timothy Walsh as reported in the Lancet Infectious Diseases website.
A nanomedicine breakthrough using polymers to detect and destroy antibiotic resistant bacteria has been jointly announced by IBM and the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology in Singapore. With this discovery, medicine now has a potent weapon against bacteria such as MRSA or methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus.
In the last few years, videoconferencing has been adopted increasingly due to globalization, productivity benefits, mobility and the need to save travel costs. During 2010, the videoconferencing market in Latin America generated revenues of US$78.0 million. With a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from 2010 to 2017 of 20.9%, this number is likely to achieve US$294 million.
A team of physicist based on Yale University has announced the creation of a device that would be able to dissipate the energy carried by a laser beam.
