Research and Development

The latest autonomous drive Nissan Leaf test vehicle being readied for continued city testing outside the automaker’s research center in Silicon Valley - image courtesy of Nissan.

Autonomous cars still about 20 years away says new report

A complex 3D object is printed using the new 3D printing technology known as CLIP - image courtesy of Carbon3D

Revolutionary new 3D printing technology delivers goods 25 times faster

The world's largest indoor vertical farm is set to open in Newark, NJ. Photo courtesy of AeroFarm

World’s largest vertical farm to be built in the US

A Chinese astronaut prepares to travel into space - image courtesy of Chinese Manned Space Engineering.

Chinese space station plans accelerated

NASA test the rocket booster for their Space Launch System at Utah. Photo courtesy of NASA

NASA prepares for deep space exploration with test of its most powerful rocket ever

The Solar Impulse 2 on the Abu Dhabi runway with pilots Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg - image courtesy of Solar Impulse.

Swiss pilots attempt first round the world solar powered flight

Benchmark test reveals best fingerprint scanning technologies

An image or the Ceres dward planet courtesy of NASA

NASA probe Dawn enters orbit of dwarf planet

The Large Halogen Collider near Geneva built by CERN - photo by Ars Electronica

Take a drone tour of Alice at the Large Hadron Collider

A Titan Solara 50 drone during a test flight - image courtesy of Titan Aerospace.

Project Titan in the air

Minister for Education and Training, Christopher Pyne, said he cannot guarantee $150m in scientific research funding if the Government's higher education reforms are not passed - image courtesy of Christopher Pyne.

Govt threatens scientific research funding if Senate doesn’t pass uni reforms