The praying mantis is one of the most formidable predators in the animal kingdom. An ambush hunter, the lean insect patiently waits for the perfect time to strike with lightning-fast speed unsuspecti… [+8257 chars]
Physical and logical qubits: The ion trap used in the experiment, seen through the window of an ultra-high vacuum chamber. (Courtesy: Robbie Shone) Quantum computers are a study of extremes. On the … [+4799 chars]
NASA has plans to retrieve samples the Perseverance rover has collected from the surface of Mars and bring them back to Earth to be studied. These unsterilized samples have some pandemic weary people… [+3499 chars]
Figure 1: A diffusion tensor image (DTI) showing some of the major connections of the brain. Developing a physics for the brain is a daunting task that has obsessed scientists since large-scale brai… [+8736 chars]
By firing lasers finer than a human hair at tiny grains of a mineral extracted from beach sand, Curtin researchers have found evidence of an almost four billion-year-old piece of the Earth's crust th… [+2867 chars]
