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15 May 2020
Light, fantastic: the path ahead for faster, smaller computer processors
Photonic chips have huge potential for the future of computers and telecommunications. Australian and German physicists have now developed hybrid architecture to overcome some of the engineering hurdles facing this technology.
15 May 2020
Lock up your pet cat, it's a killing machine
Roaming pet cats kill 390 million animals per year in Australia, including reptiles, birds and mammals. That's an average of 186 animals, mostly native species, per roaming domestic cat each year.
15 May 2020
What if: Australia, a land of missed opportunity
Let's imagine that in 1770, Captain James Cook acknowledges that there were people living on this continent, and instead of citing terra nullius, his recommendation was to negotiate with those people? Percy Knight explains.