Industry News

Nobel laureate Brian Schmidt says Australian politicians should try to follow Britain’s example and strike a joint pledge to urgently tackle climate change.

Researchers are looking at the legacy of water contamination from Australia’s colonial days.

Researchers believe the humble swamp could be up to 50 times more effective than rainforests at storing carbon.

Scientists are warning the water industry about risks posed by a changing climate.

With a new government in place, Western Queenslanders want to put the Great Artesian Basin Sustainability Initiative (GABSI) back on the agenda.

A NSW mining lobby wants charity status removed from protest groups that fight to interrupt industries in the name of conservation.

The NSW Office of Water says big rain in northern catchments will boost inflows to the Menindee lakes, but the effects are uncertain.

Experts will visit pubs up and down the Murray-Darling system for a distinctly academic pub crawl.

Current data-storage techniques do not last long enough to preserve information for the ages, so a Swiss team is developing a better way – encoding data in DNA-filled glass spheres.

Swiss engineers have unveiled a prototype telescopic contact lens which offers 2.8 times magnification.

An Australian expert has raised the idea of imposing national standards on electric vehicles, despite the country barely having any.

Rail freight operator Aurizon Holdings has had a stellar few months, more than doubling its profit to $308 million.

Massive exports could not stop an 81 per cent slump in first-half profits for Fortescue Metals Group (FMG).

Engineers from around the world are heading to Broome to use a state-of-the-art ship simulator to test their designs for multi-billion-dollar ports.

Mathematicians are turning their technical lens to Melbourne’s public transport system, envisioning super-efficient trams that never stop at intersections.

Internal tensions are being stirred in the WA Government over whether to change the state’s gold royalty rates.

The World Coal Association wants to change the game - calling for a closer look at “clean coal” technologies to let fossil fuels power the Earth.

Protestors have launched their week-long “bat attack” on the Maules Creek mine site.

A 24-hour robo-surgery event was on this week, featuring micro-operations broadcast live on the internet.

One of Australia’s best known nuclear scientists says a nuclear waste dump could earn South Australia billions of dollars.