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Nano optical antennas steer light: research
New collaborative research by RMIT University has discovered novel nanoscale devices that manipulate light for the transfer of information.
20/06/2013

No sweat
Getting older has its benefits: experience, wisdom, perspective. Paradoxically, just when we begin to "get it together", our bodies start to slow down.
13/06/2013

Art and soul
High above Sydney's Angel Place laneway, birdcages of all shapes, sizes and colours appear to be dangling from the sky, with the calls of more than 50 birds that differ as day transitions into night.
13/06/2013

Keep it clean
When Simon Lockrey was flown to Hobart to explain life cycle assessment to staff at the Australian Antarctic Division, he didn't expect to strike such an instant chord.
13/06/2013

Talking the torque
When Karl Benz put the world's first cars into production with his four-stroke internal combustion engine, he probably didn't imagine that technology would still be driving vehicles nearly 130 years on.
13/06/2013

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