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The graceful robotic penguins in the video above were unveiled by German engineering firm Festo this week. Source: http://www.newscient...

By using genetically modified frog cells, you give a robot a sharper sense of smell - according to Shoji Takeuchi, a bioengineer at the Univ...

Researchers have experimented with storing hydrogen inside molecular "cages", made from chains of carbon, oxygen and hydrogen atom...

Zafer Sahinoglu at the Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and colleagues, are developing a network of po...

Yamaguchi and his colleagues have achieved a breakthrough in electrolyte membranes that could broaden the applicability of direct methanol f...

Measuring muscle activity provides a basis for estimating the angles, torques, and impedances in human joints. Koike, Sato, and their collea...

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Xiaolin Zhang is at the Precision and Intelligence Laboratory, and inventor of ‘active stereo vision systems’, based on a deep understanding...

Lithium ion batteries have proven problematic for widespread distribution, because they require expensive and sometimes toxic materials. Zh...

Topological supramolecule such as rotaxane and catenane, which has mechanically interlocked molecular system, is one of the most intensive r...

Its main subject is to activate the international and interdisciplinary research of magnetic self-organization in space and laboratory plasm...

University of Auckland researcher, Associate Professor Bruce MacDonald, and his team of researchers (both in New Zealand and in South Korea)...

UQ physicists and Harvard chemists have teamed up to build a quantum computer that could have profound implications for wider science. Sourc...

The University of Queensland today launched iTunes U to deliver free education content through the iTunes Store for students, staff and comm...

Queensland Premier Anna Bligh last year announced a $15 million five-year contribution to a new research and development centre for “hot roc...

Recent research highlights * Revolutionizing the design of fuel cells used in the latest generation of hybrid cars, which could make the veh...

Physicists at the University of Sydney have brought silicon chips closer to performing all-optical computing and information processing that...

The University of Sydney's Institute of Photonics and Optical Science (IPOS) is set to present a year of research breakthroughs in photo...

An ANU researcher’s revolutionary ‘plasma thruster’ will be developed for launch into space within the next four years, as part of a prototy...

A team of researchers from The Australian National University have discovered a way to remove salt from seawater using nanotubes made from b...