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Researchers at UNSW Australia have recently discovered the fossil of a tiny marsupial lion that lived in the tropical forests of Northern Australia about 18 million years ago, and they’ve named it after David Attenborough.It’s not the first animal, or even the first prehistoric animal to be named...

Nanotechnology researchers at RMIT University have developed a textile fabric that can clean itself when exposed to light. The team has developed a cheap and efficient way by which textiles can be fused with nanostructures that are capable of degrading organic matter when exposed to light.The new...

A team at the Australian National University (ANU) has discovered a way to produce ultra-thin solar cells using sticky tape.  Using a method that was made famous when the creators of graphene used scotch tape to pull off thin layers of graphite, the ANU team have succeeded in extracting ultra-...

A team of researchers from many Australian universities has discovered a cluster of submerged volcanoes off the coast of Sydney whilst researching something else!Scientists from UNSW, La Trobe University, the University of British Columbia, the University of Sydney, the University of Auckland, the...

Scientists at the Australian National University (ANU) and the University College London (UCL) have created two completely new materials by firing lasers into silicon to create micro-explosions.Professor Rode, a laser physicist at the ANU Research School of Physics and Engineering (RSPE) explained...