World's largest radio telescope completed
26 September, 2016The Chinese Academy of Sciences has completed construction on the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) — the world's largest radio telescope.
The mystery of the dimming galaxy and the starving black hole
16 September, 2016An international team of astronomers has discovered the secret behind a change in the behaviour of a supermassive black hole at the centre of a distant galaxy.
Australian satellites join global research project
10 August, 2016Three Australian research satellites will be deployed to the International Space Station (ISS) later this year, marking the first time an Australian-made satellite has gone into space since 2002.
Cygnus spacecraft returns to Earth
29 July, 2016The Cygnus CRS OA-6 spacecraft has returned to Earth after supplying 3.5 tonnes of cargo to the International Space Station (ISS).
The da Vinci code: notes of the laws of friction uncovered
27 July, 2016Scribbled notes and sketches on a page in a notebook by Leonardo da Vinci, previously dismissed as irrelevant, have been identified as the place where he first recorded his understanding of the laws of friction.
France partners with CSIRO on space science project
21 July, 2016The president of the French Government's space agency has signed a cooperation agreement with the CSIRO covering the 2017 launch of a stratospheric scientific balloon research program from the NASA/CSIRO base in Alice Springs.
A violin made from spider silk
24 June, 2016Luca Alessandrini has developed a prototype violin made from a composite material that includes, among other things, spider silk.
A giant galaxy cluster, more gravitational waves and life outside the solar system
16 June, 2016It's been a busy couple of days for astronomers, with announcements of three significant discoveries taking place in the past 48 hours.
Motors on a mission for NASA
06 June, 2016As part of NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) research project, motors from FAULHABER are helping to examine the Earth's magnetic field.
US govt invests in Sydney quantum research
04 May, 2016An international consortium has been awarded a multimillion-dollar research grant from the US government agency Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity for research into quantum technology.
Sydney Nanoscience Hub officially opens
20 April, 2016The $150 million Sydney Nanoscience Hub was officially opened as part of a two-day conference on the theme of nanoscale science and technology.
Chemical design without metals
08 December, 2015Rice University scientists have synthesised dozens of small-molecule catalysts — tools that promise to speed the making of novel chemicals, including drugs — without the use of transition metals.
Giant Magellan Telescope ready for construction
24 November, 2015Atop a remote mountain in the Chilean Andes, construction on the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) is about to begin.
The mystery of organic matter in lunar samples
30 October, 2015Scientists have solved a mystery which has plagued NASA since the Apollo missions to the moon — the fact that samples of lunar soil brought back to Earth contained low levels of organic matter in the form of amino acids.
No sign of advanced alien civilisations
18 September, 2015Professor Michael Garrett has used radio observations of candidate galaxies to show that advanced civilisations are very rare or entirely absent from the local universe.
