Mon Apr 2, 2012
The Minister for Science and Research, Senator Chris Evans, today announced CSIRO had successfully settled litigation in the United States to licence the wireless local area network (WLAN) technology, invented in Australia in the 1990s. The technology, which came out of CSIRO’s work on radioastronomy, is today used in more than three billion devices worldwide [...]
Fri Mar 16, 2012
U.S. scientists have been investigating whether prenatal exposure to mobile phone radiation has any impact on mice, though the authors caution that their findings may be difficult to translate to human risks. Female mice were exposed to an active mobile phone call throughout their pregnancy. The authors found that fetal exposure to mobile phone radiation [...]
Fri Mar 9, 2012
On March 11 last year a magnitude 9.0 (Mw) earthquake hit off the coast of Japan triggering a powerful tsunami and resulting in the most serious nuclear accident since Chernobyl. Over 15,000 people were confirmed dead as the tsunami inundated a total area of approximately 561 km2 (217 sq mi) in Japan. A series of [...]
Thu Mar 8, 2012
Two solar flares that occurred on the sun at about 11am and 12 noon (Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Tims – AEDT) on 7 March caused a large cloud of charged particles (a coronial mass ejection) to hurtle towards Earth with expected arrival at around 4pm AEDT on Thu 8 March (update from NASA: actual arrival [...]
Thu Mar 1, 2012
Dutch researchers have trialled the first web-based therapeutic programme for adolescents with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) with positive results. The study, Fatigue In Teenagers on the interNET (FITNET)*, included 135 teenagers aged between 12-18 years with chronic fatigue syndrome and showed that using a web-based cognitive behavioural therapy programme is substantially more effective than usual [...]
Thu Feb 9, 2012
The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has issued an Airworthiness Directive which requires all A380s in service to be inspected for the presence of wing cracks. Below experts from Australia and the UK comment.
Fri Jan 13, 2012
The Russian space agency revised its predictions for re-entry of the Phobos-Grunt space probe to a 4 hour 21 minute window between 3.41am AEDT and 8.05am AEDT on Monday 16 January. According to media reports re-entry occurred over the Pacific early monday Morning Australian time.
Fri Oct 21, 2011
Embargo lifted 9.30am AEDT Friday October 21, 2011 Danish researchers have investigated the risk of brain tumours in connection with mobile phones based on a study of 358,403 mobile phone subscribers over an 18 year period. It should be noted that the study is based on data from people with a mobile phone contract and [...]