If you’ve always suspected that the male of the species can be competitive to the point of stupidity, Rosanne Roy from McGill University in Montreal and her colleagues have evidence that you’re right…
Australian Agriculture Minister Warren Truss welcomed a commitment by oil major BP to produce a sugar-ethanol/petrol blend in Brisbane
A new report shows that Australia is a laggard and renegade state when it comes to protecting the environment and is going backwards on every indicator of environmental health, from pollution to land clearing. The report, commissioned by a plethora of green groups, contradicted recent assertions by the conservative government of John Howard that it had made great strides in controlling pollution and promoting sustainable land use
Scientists are hard at work looking for ways people with diabetes can measure their blood sugar without the painful and scarring jabs now necessary for blood collection
The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown Los Angeles became the city’s first religious edifice to generate solar power. The massive church’s solar panels will return enough juice to the city’s power grid to light up 66 homes
Scattered around the planet are hundreds of creatures that have been to the Moon and back again. None of them are human. They outnumber active astronauts 3:1. And most are missing. They’re trees. Moon trees
An intrepid bunch of rabbits have emulated Indiana Jones, turning into archaeologists to unearth a rare and ancient glass window in central England
Australia is set to become home to the world’s first Solar Tower, a one kilometre high structure with the potential to generate enough electricity to supply a city of more than 200,000 people
Seattle-based HighLift Systems is hosting a conference this week to meet with investors and other parties potentially interested in a device that could open the final frontier to the masses within 15 years because of the space elevator‘s relatively low costs and extremely high traffic volume
Cybercrime investigators for NASA are trying to figure out how 43MB of sensitive design data about planned space vehicles got into the hands of a hacker — and then into the hands of a reporter
Computer scientists in India have cracked an age-old mathematical problem by designing a method for computers to quickly prove whether a figure is a prime number — a vital step in cryptography
A new drug being developed for commercial use in Australia and the United States called Melanotan — more alluringly dubbed the Barbie
drug — seems to be an answer to prayers of millions of people who desire to sport the perfect tan. As a bonus it also promises reawakening of sexual desire
The remarkable toolmaking talent of a New Caledonian crow called Betty has challenged the chimpanzee’s reputation as the most proficient toolmaker in the animal world. The bird, one of two kept at Oxford University’s zoology field station, fashioned a hook from an ordinary piece of wire — something even a chimp cannot manage
After more than a decade of trying, Australian researchers have created a highly infectious virus that could wipe out the country’s rabbit pests by making them sterile
Human understanding of the laws of physics may be about to be turned upside down with the proposition that the speed of light is not a constant, as has been believed
In the latest study of a 4.5 billion-year-old Martian meteorite, researchers have presented new evidence confirming that 25% of the magnetic material in the meteorite was produced by ancient bacteria on Mars
Something strange has been going on under our feet for the past four years. Earth’s gravity field suddenly shifted gears and began getting flatter, reversing a course of centuries during which the planet and its gravity field grew rounder each year
A team of researchers, doctors and medical institutions in Seattle may have a simple gift for people with diabetes — freedom. Freedom from worries over maintaining the proper level of sugar in the blood. And freedom from the fear that the disease will destroy their eyes, heart or kidneys. The freedom comes in clusters of cells plucked from a donated pancreas. The cells, known as islets
, produce insulin, which the body needs to use sugar. Type 1 diabetes destroys those cells, making the body insulin-deficient
Robert Young, an animal behaviour expert at the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte, and his colleague Rebecca West of De Montfort University in Lincoln, UK are convinced that dogs can count and researchers at the University of California Davis say they try to convey different messages through the pitch and pace of their barks
In South Australia’s outback, history has been made with a team from the University of Queensland successfully launching their supersonic air-breathing scramjet engine atop a rocket. Until yesterday morning no organisation, including NASA in the United States, has been able to successfully launch a scramjet — an air-breathing supersonic engine
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