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Composites fly high
Humanity's first composite material was putting mud and straw together.
13/06/2013

Smart gym muscles up
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.
13/06/2013

Quiet, please
Rough roads, hungry engines and bored kids made road trips of yesteryear noisy, uncomfortable affairs.
13/06/2013

Sky's the limit
Planes without pilots: experts call them unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). Most of us call them drones.
13/06/2013

Woman's best friend
According to the Australian Companion Animal Council, we own 3.4 million dogs - and the more dogs, the more canine illnesses.
13/06/2013

No sweat
Getting older has its benefits: experience, wisdom, perspective. Paradoxically, just when we begin to "get it together", our bodies start to slow down.
13/06/2013

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