The first commercial LED lights came out in the 1960s, but it wasn’t until the colour could be fully tuned, nearly 40 years later, that their full utility was realised. Recent work aims to do the same thing for fluorescent polymers and other novel materials, but in a fraction of the time, using machine learning.
On 19 April this year, Bicycle Day (not to be confused with UN World Bicycle Day on 3 June) marks 80 years since an unusual bicycle ride made by...
Nomenclature in chemistry took a giant step forward in the late eighteenth century when French chemists – Louis Bernard Guyton de Morveau...
More than 1100 RACI members and friends attended last year’s very successful Congress in Brisbane. As expected, by far the majority of...
To quote Douglas Adams (The hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy): ‘Space is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mind-boggling...
The availability of clean water for drinking and other uses has been a hot-button issue in Australia for at least two decades. The Millennium...
Real-world technology is often foretold by science fiction. In 1927, characters in the film Metropolis made video calls to each other. Star Trek...
Over the past 60 years, we have sent into Earth orbit 15 000 satellites, rocket stages and other objects. According to the European Space...
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