The Government-funded NICTA (National ICT Australia) is working on a new mobile app to help consumers and small businesses frustrated by delivery and payment delays.

Computer security experts have uncovered one of the most malicious pieces of software they have seen, and it could be a secret surveillance program for world governments.

A new site will build windows into the human body for local researchers.

A new report details some of the mind-boggling conditions inside a nuclear reactor during a meltdown.

A recent research project may have taught some participants about the dangers of internet complacency, and showed the level of ignorance about easy security measures.

Attempts to visualise the size and shape of the universe have boggled even history’s greatest minds, but it is getting easier.

A new research facility will allow Australian engineers to grab hold of the future, and carve it with some incredible machinery.

Europe's science probe Philae has gone quiet for a bit, after making its mark on global media, the scientific world and the comet on which it landed.

Australian engineers have trained an army of robots to fight the scourge of e-waste.

Engineers have built a nanowire system that could be used to power photonic computer systems.

A new study suggests that playing action video games like Call of Duty can actually improve learning capability.

The Australian Government has announced it will seek a new free trade agreement, this time with the nation of Germany.

The US Government has struck a deal with tech giants to build the world's fastest supercomputers to date.

New software could add a greater depth to our understanding and ability to model evolution.

The Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP) has been found in breach of the Privacy Act by posting the personal information of approximately 9,250 asylum seekers on a public website.

New revelations have woken up debate over a former Victorian Labor government's IT project, with reports that education department officials had shares in and even took jobs with the company given a $60 million government contract.

Engineers in Finland have demonstrated an exciting new technique for generating electrical energy; harvesting power from vibrations.

Raspberry has released a new version of the Pi computer – a tiny credit card-sized Linux PC that costs less than $25.

Funding has been secured for a demonstration-scale fuel plant in South Australia, which converts marine microalgae into green crude.

One the scale of ‘Things from Sci-Fi That Would be Useful in Real Life’ – the nanobots that inhabit the bodies of Star Trek’s Borg species are near the top.

IBM has linked with an energy company to research faster ways to find oil and gas reserves under the sea floor.

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