The sapphire crystal on display at the University of Adelaide. Credit: University of Adelaide
The world's most precise clock has been fine-tuned to boost radar and GPS capabilities.
The Cryogenic Sapphire Oscillator, or Sapphire Clock, has been enhanced by researchers from...
Major internet services including Twitter, Spotify and Amazon suffered service interruptions and outages on Friday as a US internet provider came under a cyber attack.
The internet service company Dyn, which routes and manages internet traffic, said that it had...
Samsung Electronics today announced that it has commenced mass production of System-on-Chip (SoC) products with 10-nanometer (nm) FinFET technology for which would make it first in the industry.
Following the successful mass production of the industry's first FinFET mobile application...
University of Adelaide researchers have developed a world-first optical sensor that can detect vitamin B12 in diluted human blood – a first step towards a low-cost, portable, broadscale vitamin B12 deficiency test. Vitamin B12 deficiency is associated with an...
Amazon said its seasonal worker recruitment goal for 2016 represents a 20 percent jump from 2015. Image Credit: Flickr/simone_brunozzi
US online giant Amazon on Thursday announced that it plans to hire 120,000 seasonal workers to help handle an expected crush...
Researcher Rob Gaunt prepares Nathan Copeland for brain computer interface sensory test. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 12 October 2016, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by S.N. Flesher at...
A new online game is inviting members of the public to look under a virtual microscope and contribute directly to Alzheimer’s disease research at Cornell.
Stall Catchers, a game launched this week by the Human Computation Institute (HCI), challenges users...
Yes, you heard that right. Samsung is asking owners of its fire-prone Galaxy Note 7 to do something crazy: "power down and stop using the device."
In an age when smartphones have become extensions of ourselves, the last thing we...
Social network giant Facebook on Monday launched new global product Workplace, a platform that it hopes will replace intranet, mailbox and other internal communication tools used by businesses worldwide.
The platform allows employees to collaborate in real-time and is intended...
In the flooded Hranicka Abyss in Czech Republic, Polish explorer Krzysztof Starnawski examines the limestone crevasse and prepares for a 2016 expedition to measure it depths. Starnawski and his Polish-Czech team discovered that the cave goes 404 metres down,...
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Widely used prescription and non-prescription painkillers are associated with an increased risk of hospital admission for heart failure, according to a study released Thursday.
The drugs in question are so-called NSAIDs, or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, including several...
