Perhaps the idea of donning a skirt isn’t for most guys — but who is to say for sure until he tries? Steven Villegas, the owner and creator of Utilikilts, is betting that once a man tries on one of his kilts, and experiences freedom from constricting slacks and shorts, he will be forever converted
Pyjamas based on space technology will help prevent cot deaths and understand how they occur. The pyjamas are based on the suits used to monitor the vital signs of European Space Agency astronauts
CSIRO has been developing methods to compare search engine performance so users can choose the best engine for their needs. Dr David Hawking of CSIRO’s Electronic Content Technologies group says that search engine performance varies according to the task
An ancient mechanism of the immune system may hold the key to controlling pesky parasites in the livestock industries. CSIRO Livestock Industries’ Dr Tim Doran, a winner of the AFFA Science Award for Young People 2001, says a biological technique that allows important genes be targeted and switched off has huge potential for wiping out parasites
A new breed of security tool powered by Artificial Intelligence has been implemented by a major Australian telco and has sparked interest from the Defence Force and the country’s big four banks in the wake of the recent wave of debilitating virus attacks
Implanting minute electrodes in the brain is the most effective treatment for advanced Parkinson’s disease and has fewer side effects than widely used surgeries that destroy brain tissue
Using quantum entanglement effects, Danish physicists have made two samples of trillions of atoms interact at a distance. This has profound implications for quantum computing and communications — and could conceivably lead one day to instant transportation, Star Trek style. Entangled states have been demonstrated before, but this was done with trillions of atoms and laser light. The entangled spin state lasted 0.5 milliseconds, a long time in this context
A chemical originally obtained from urine might be able to reduce emissions of nitrogen oxides from diesel engines by up to 80 per cent. A diesel truck has set off from a lab in the Netherlands to test the idea as it trundles around Europe’s roads
Ask most astronauts and cosmonauts what type of food they miss most on the International Space Station and they’ll tell you fresh salads are a culinary commodity craved in orbit
A group of elderly Tasmanian women have bared all in a nude calendar to raise money for curtains for their local community centre. The women, from South Arm on Australia’s southern island state of Tasmania, said the hall needed sprucing up so they decided to launch a Bare to be Different calendar to raise funds
Clayton Lee Waagner is another righteous soldier in the terrorism business. Here is how he puts it: It doesn’t matter to me if you’re a nurse, receptionist, bookkeeper or janitor, if you work for the murderous abortionist, I’m going to kill you
Australia cannot run a first world economy in a third world environment. With environmental problems now costing the nation an estimated $65 billion, there is a need for national co-operation and some uniquely Australian solutions, Dr Graham Harris, Chief of CSIRO Land & Water told the National Press Club in Canberra yesterday
International consultancy group Gartner has asked clients hit by the Code Red and nimda worms to consider alternatives to Microsoft’s IIS
Australia and New Zealand are key partners in Echelon, the satellite spying system whose existence is still being denied by US authorities, a European Parliament report has concluded
Burglars with a taste for the high life quaffed vintage champagne and sampled fine cheeses during a bizarre break-in in the southern Irish city of Cork
When disaster strikes, Brent Woodworth is usually not far behind. Floods, earthquakes and bombings are his business. His résumé includes labouring at the scene of 70 catastrophes, natural and man-made — earthquakes in Turkey, flooding in Peru, the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing — as the head of the IBM crisis response team
When only 7% of students meet reading or writing standards, and none meets the mark for math, there’s no way to go but up. So staffers at Thurgood Marshall Elementary tried something unusual: separating students by gender
When a Cleveland-based business-to-business start-up failed several months ago, executives planned to follow a well-paved dot-com death pattern: Lay off workers, sell assets and reimburse creditors. Employees had a different plan. Between the layoffs and the asset auction, they stole $35,000 worth of laptops, handheld computers, monitors and laser printers. That left some executives, venture capitalists and other uninsured creditors in a financial lurch
Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban confiscate 1400 tonnes of food aid, as the UN braces itself for a massive humanitarian crisis
In the past two weeks, the Internet’s role as the ultimate source of unmediated news has been matched only by its notorious ability to breed rumours, conspiracy theories and urban legends
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