A New Zealand inventor has put a home-made pulse jet engine on a go kart — a man in search of an embarrassing headline
At least one intruder, apparently armed with a spear, went fishing in the Key West Aquarium, killing several exotic specimens and making off with a load of lobsters, snappers and trout
A break in the Southern Cross cable, Australia’s fastest overseas data network, off the coast of Sydney will take up to 12 days to repair and leave thousands of users in the lurch
Esso Australia’s record $2 million fine over the fatal Longford gas explosion has been likened to a corporate speeding ticket by unions
Last week, Dmitry Sklyarov, a PhD computer science student from Russia, came to the United States to share knowledge and information regarding serious security flaws in Adobe software with fellow developers. He was promptly arrested
Media complacency is helping to normalise the violent assaults carried out by Italian police on the G8 demonstrators in Genoa
Several scientists have found compelling evidence that Viking Mars landers did indeed discover life on the red planet in 1976. A re-examination of findings relayed to Earth by the probes some 25 years ago, claim the experts, show the tell-tale signs of microbes lurking within the Martian soil
Three Boy Scouts dug out chunks of a 190 million-year-old set of dinosaur tracks and threw the rocks into a reservoir, irreparably damaging the prehistoric find
Search engine portal Google has removed links to pages that could allow crackers to automatically explore the Web for a specific vulnerability in e-commerce software
A hungry bush rat cut communications to the bustling north Queensland mining town of Mt Isa when it chewed through a fibre optic cable
If we finally prove we’re not alone in the cosmos, will it happen because we’ve discovered flashing lights in the sky? A growing number of SETI researchers think this is possible
A new global map of Mars has revealed a host of valleys carved from otherwise smooth areas that might be signs of the Red Planet’s most recent ice age. The features also bolster the case for a vast reservoir of water ice just below the surface
AOL Time Warner‘s $100 million investment in e-tailer Amazon.com this week highlights an emerging, high-stakes battle between the media giant and Microsoft. Long-time foes in areas such as instant messaging and online access, AOL and Microsoft are facing off in the e-commerce arena — specifically over technology that makes it easier to navigate the Web and make purchases online. So-called e-wallets — which store commonly requested information such as a login name, shipping address and credit card number — are shaping up as a key leverage point for controlling how consumers and businesses use the Internet
Australian tourism authorities may change laws to protect people too stupid to protect themselves
after sightseers clambered on a floating dead whale and patted great white sharks eating the carcass
Meat from transgenic pigs destined for destruction was turned into sausage and eaten by at least nine people in Florida. It may be the first time people in the US have eaten genetically modified meat
Phoolan Devi, the woman known as the Bandit Queen
before she entered Parliament, was shot dead by masked men right outside her home in the heart of the city on Wednesday afternoon — if you’re unfamiliar with Phoolan Devi, the 1994 film Bandit Queen is well worth a look to gain an insight into the early life of an extraordinary woman
It is the dark underbelly of globalisation, a trade in human misery and despair that has gone largely unnoticed
Microsoft is working on Farsite, a fail-safe computer file storage technology which saves your files on hundreds or thousands of networked PCs — call me sceptical, but I just can see myself trusting storage technology developed by the dodgy brothers at Microsoft
Scientists have developed a new type of clock that is accurate to one second in 100 million years, far more accurate than existing atomic clocks. It is based on the optical frequency of a single cooled mercury ion linked to a laser oscillator
Australia’s old, flat and salty landscape needs a revolution in land use, says Dr John Williams of CSIRO Land and Water. Dr Williams told the Queensland State Landcare and Catchment Management Conference that our current farming system, based on annual crops and pastures, is simply not right for our ancient flat dry continent
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