Nanoparticles: small but deadly... to cancerShutterstockDespite extraordinary advances in new drugs and biotechnology, cancer is still one of the leading causes of death worldwide.
In many cases, the problem lies not with the drugs but rather the difficulty in successfully delivering them to the site of a tumour. In healthy tissue there is a...
Better said with an emoji?TaylorHerring/flickr, CC BY-NC-NDThe emoji has become one of the fastest growing forms of communication in history. But those who are worried that its growth could see the death of written language are wrong – emojis are being used to enhance, rather than replace words in our digital communications.
An emoji is an...
An author who demands to be read.Gyula Czimbal/EPALike league tables in education, the danger of literary prizes is that something with value beyond the all-consuming capitalist pursuit of excellence becomes reduced to a kind of sporting event.
This is one effect of the often-quoted puff copy by Susan Sontag which first aroused my curiosity in the...
Erik Sorto can make intuitive movments for first time in 13 years.Lance Hayashida, CaltechErik Sorto, 34, has been paralysed from the neck down for the past 13 years. However, thanks to a ground-breaking clinical trial, he has been able to smoothly drink a bottle of beer using a robotic arm controlled with his mind. He is the first patient to have...
In environments where the ground itself is constantly shifting, breaking, and being reshaped, every component must be built to endure. Mining operations are among the most demanding in the industria...
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If you’re in business, you might have seen it before. A team of capable and smart people just suddenly slows down, and things start spiraling out of control. On paper, everything looks perfect, but ...
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Across Australia, a lot of tradies are busy. There’s no shortage of demand in industries like plumbing, electrical, landscaping, and building. But being busy doesn’t always mean running a smooth or...
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