Science
Regular use of computers appears to reduce the incidence of dementia by up to 40 per cent according to a major study of more than 5,000 men aged 69-87, conducted in Western Australia over the last eight years.
Ford Australia engineers and designers are living in a virtual world, and loving it. The company has unveiled its new Virtual Reality Centre, a high tech digital evaluation and design environment
NASA has sent the Mars rover Curiosity on its first road trip. On Wednesday, August 29, 2012, NASA announced that Curiosity is on its way to Glenelg.
Not a pure electric vehicle, yet not a hybrid, the Holden Volt is looking like it will shake up the languishing Australian automobile industry.
With the death of Neil Armstrong, the world lost a hero; however, we gained much from his successes in life, and those of his fellow Apollo astronauts. Let’s go back, at least in our memories, to the Sea of Tranquility and that day when the Apollo 11 astronauts were the first to step on the Moon.
A Blue Moon will be present for all to see on Friday, August 31, 2012. Don’t miss this one, because you’ll not get another one for almost three years.
Neil Alden Armstrong was the first human to walk on the surface of a celestial body other than Earth. He died on Saturday, August 25, 2012, at the age of 82 years.
After one giant leap for mankind, astronaut Neil Armstrong has taken his final step here on Earth.
A recently released video of the NASA Curiosity rover shows it deploying its heat shield and descending to a touchdown on Mars, while mission controllers monitor its progress, and applaud and shout as milestones are reached.
The Curiosity science team voted, on August 22, 2012, to name the landing site of Curiosity the "Bradbury Landing" after late science fiction writer Ray Bradbury.
