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Composites fly high 13/06/2013
Humanity's first composite material was putting mud and straw together.
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Smart gym muscles up 13/06/2013
As the world gets fatter so, too, does its appetite for gym equipment. Gym machines are generally too heavy for even a building's first floor and are not portable and suitable for outdoor use.
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Quiet, please 13/06/2013
Rough roads, hungry engines and bored kids made road trips of yesteryear noisy, uncomfortable affairs.
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Sky's the limit 13/06/2013
Planes without pilots: experts call them unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). Most of us call them drones.
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Woman's best friend 13/06/2013
According to the Australian Companion Animal Council, we own 3.4 million dogs - and the more dogs, the more canine illnesses.
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Keep it clean 13/06/2013
When Simon Lockrey was flown to Hobart to explain life cycle assessment to staff at the Australian Antarctic Division, he didn't expect to strike such an instant chord.
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The god of small things 13/06/2013
Talking to experts in nano-technology it's easy to be reminded of the old joke about the Silicon Valley chip designer who became so successful he had to move to smaller premises.
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Talking the torque 13/06/2013
When Karl Benz put the world's first cars into production with his four-stroke internal combustion engine, he probably didn't imagine that technology would still be driving vehicles nearly 130 years on.
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RMIT volunteers wanted for exercise study 12/06/2013
Researchers at RMIT University are seeking staff volunteers for a study investigating the effectiveness of a workplace exercise intervention.
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RMIT alumnus goes beyond the 'final frontier' 12/06/2013
Working on new generation spacesuits while at RMIT University, Dr James Waldie could not have imagined how far his revolutionary ideas would take him.
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