Australia's third-biggest island could combine wind, solar, PV and battery storage to fuel own electricity needs - and set a blueprint for the rest of the country
Pokémon Go turns everything we know about gaming on its head. It’s a massively multiplayer real life videogame. RL games have the power to take our beloved stories and franchises and bring them to life. Not only that, they can add a sense of depth, awareness, and somewhat ironically, mindfulness about the real world.
Scientists at TCD have made groundbreaking advances with a new material that may one day be used to build roll-up television screens.
Three-quarters of UK construction companies now operate a low carbon or carbon reduction strategy, a new survey has shown.
This image taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft is one of the first to be taken by the probe since it entered Jupiter's orbit last week.
Now a Chinese observatory has superseded Arecibo. Installation of the 500-meter FAST radio telescope is complete, with the last triangular reflector put into place. The observatory is expected to begin observing the heavens in September.
Icy world 2015 RR245 has been classified a dwarf planet by the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center. It was found using the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope on Maunakea, Hawaii.
So there's now such a thing as a cyborg stingray, a tiny mimic of the real thing that uses living tissues to get around — way cooler than those boring old robot stingrays.
A team of astronomers have used the SPHERE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope to image the first planet ever found in a wide orbit inside a triple-star system.
Colombian architect Oscar Mendez is building a house with blocks and cuboids made of discarded plastics. Now the invention has started to benefit thousands of homeless.
According to a new electro-mobility roadmap study, Singapore could achieve its goal of 50 percent electric vehicles by 2050 with the right policies in place.
Astronomers at last have a clear glimpse of the eye of a massive celestial storm.
A man in Vietnam, Tong Phuoc Phuc, has adopted 100 children from mothers who abandoned them because they didn’t have the means to feed one more mouth.
It’s easy to think there are more things dividing us than uniting us. But we actually have much more in common with other nationalities than you’d think.
