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Do you know how interesting science and technology can be? Discover the amazing ways science is being applied to real life situations.

 
Sound that makes your hair stand on end
 
Sound that makes your hair stand on end Read ArticleRead Article
Have you ever had that hair-raising feeling that someone just walked over your grave?...
Scientists learn how to grow organs
 
Scientists learn how to grow organs Read ArticleRead Article
A team of researchers are finding ways to grow human organs for use in medical transplants...
Sea Sponge Teaches Scientists a Lesson
 
Sea Sponge Teaches Scientists a Lesson Read ArticleRead Article
Fibre optic cables have been viewed as an amazing human invention, but now it seems that nature not only did it first but also did it better...
Move it with your mind
 
Move it with your mind Read ArticleRead Article
How amazing woudl it be to simply think that a command and have a robot respond? It's already happening.
Plants like Heavy Metal
 
Plants like Heavy Metal Read ArticleRead Article
If you're thinking Metallica, you're on the wrong track. Plants that eat heavy metals like arsenic, lead and mercury might be the solution to cleaning up hazardous wastes.
Mobile phones that know when you’re busy?
 
Mobile phones that know when you’re busy? Read ArticleRead Article
Sick of mobile phone calls interrupting you at the worst possible time? A scientific solution is on the way.
Digging Up the Past
 
Digging Up the Past Read ArticleRead Article
Paleantology tells us what's happened over centuries...and knowledge of our past is the key to our future
Doggie cam to help fight crime
 
Doggie cam to help fight crime Read ArticleRead Article
These days it seems cameras are everywhere we go. Now they’re putting them on dogs...
Pregnancy helps find a cure
 
Pregnancy helps find a cure Read ArticleRead Article
Researchers from a Brisbane company are working on a new way to treat Multiple Sclerosis and Rheumatoid Arthritis...
A carbon copy – of a cat!
 
A carbon copy – of a cat! Read ArticleRead Article
The world’s first cloned cat was recently born in Texas, USA and she was cloned using genetic technology...
Stink bugs have a strange appetite
 
Stink bugs have a strange appetite Read ArticleRead Article
Spined Soldier Bugs are being used in America as a natural pest control in crops...
Micro-chipped family
 
Micro-chipped family Read ArticleRead Article
A family in Florida are the first people to be implanted with computer chips...
Spider silk - stronger than steel!
 
Spider silk - stronger than steel! Read ArticleRead Article
Spider silk is five times stronger than steel, 30 times more flexible than nylon and twice as elastic...
Digging up the past
 
Digging up the past Read ArticleRead Article
Paleontology looks at the forms of life that lived before us, usually through the study of fossils...
It tastes sweet…
 
It tastes sweet… Read ArticleRead Article
This honey has amazing healing effects for a variety of wounds and infections like leg ulcers, cuts and burns...