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NBN product launch was out of this world
NBN Co's second satellite has been successfully deployed and will soon begin providing broadband services to tens of thousands of homes and businesses in rural and remote Australia.
NBN Co's second satellite has been successfully deployed and will soon begin providing broadband services to tens of thousands of homes and businesses in rural and remote Australia.
On August 4, 1997, Jeanne Calment passed away in a nursing home in France. The Reaper comes for us all, of course, but he was in no hurry for Calment. She died at age 122, setting a record for human longevity.
Nobel committee compares three scientists' breakthroughs to the invention of the first crude electric motors.
Harvard University researchers have used a metre-long petri dish to show the frightening speed at which bacteria can evolve and develop resistance to modern antibiotics.
Discoveries boosted research in condensed matter physics and raised hopes for uses in new generations of electronics and superconductors or future quantum computers.
When ANU researchers stumbled upon skeletal remains at the oldest known cemetery of the Pacific Island Lapita culture, they did not expect it to solve a centuries-long debate.
The European Space Agency said the Rosetta spacecraft has crash-landed on a comet after an historic 12 years spent chasing it across more than 6 billion kilometres of space.
Toyota's concept cars might end up being born into a driverless world.
The potential benefits of a double-barrelled penis - for a fly anyway.
A Sydney rocket scientist has just signed a deal to test his ion drive in space.
The future of air safety could lie in the example of Drongo, Nemo and Titan.
It could be an intriguing step on the hunt for alien life on Jupiter's ocean-covered moon.
Physicists at The Australian National University have brought quantum computing a step closer to reality by stopping light in a new experiment.
World's largest single-dish radio telescope, in a majestic but impoverished part of china, looks deep into the universe.
Why small earthquakes stay small, while others grow into monsters is one of the most enduring mysteries in earthquake science but we now have a partial, but tantalising answer: The moon and big tides.
The accolades are given for studies and findings that "make people laugh, and then think."
A piece of the Herald found inside a giant fish shows not much has changed since 1883.
During the 50 years we have been able take photos of Earth from space, we have become somewhat blase about the little blue planet on which we live.
When it was discovered in Israel in 1970, the En-Gedi scroll was clearly in no shape to be read. Now, 40 years alter, researchers
Tiangong 1, China's first space laboratory, will come to a fiery end in late 2017.
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