The scientist who developed the bionic ear, Professor Graeme Clark, has joined Australia’s Information and Communications Technology Research Centre of Excellence, NICTA, to lead a project aimed at developing technologies capable of providing new types of hearing implants that can improve various aspects of auditory perception for hearing loss patients.

Innovative Australian technology has been utilised in Boeing’s latest passenger jet, the long-range twin engine 787 Dreamliner, which Qantas and its low-fares subsidiary, Jetstar will start flying in 2012 and 2013.

Australia-China research collaborations will benefit from an additional $18 million over the next three years, with the opening of a dedicated Australia-China Science and Research Fund (ACSRF) this week.

If you ask someone for the time, you're probably satisfied if the answer is accurate to the minute. But for some commercial and scientific purposes, much greater accuracy is needed.

The term 'big data' is generally associated with science and a very few specialised areas of business. But one database company is predicting it will find a home in a much broader range of activities.

Australia had plenty of moon units gazing up at Earth’s major orbiter early this morning, as a red, dead moondemption eclipsed the threat of ash – but wasn’t able to overcome view-marring cloudy weather for some.

Tomorrow morning, the 16th of June, the moon will turn red thanks to Chilean volcanic ash as it goes through a major celestial event: a lunar eclipse.

Australia’s national government body for scientific research in Australia, the CSIRO, has decided it wants to “acknowledge and celebrate journalists alongside CSIRO’s scientists and researchers” for the first time, offering a $5000 travel grant to the journalist judged by the CSIRO’s judging panel that best used “exceptional reporting” that promotes the awareness and impact of science to Australians.

With a new movie beginning production, Ford designers have taken the opportunity to reimagine a technical revamp of the classic Mad Max Ford Interceptor, with electrifying results.

Understanding how climate change could impact on the deterioration of the basic building block of much of Australia's infrastructure – concrete – is crucial to ensuring major assets such as roads, ports and buildings continue to perform up to expectations, according to a CSIRO report.