The platypus has long fascinated scientists, with its weird assortment of features making it one of the most unusual animals on the planet. Now a team of researchers found that platypus milk contains novel antimicrobial properties that could help scientists battle the global superbug threat.
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Water filtration may be one of graphene's most directly beneficial capabilities. Now scientists have demonstrated how effective a specially-designed form of graphene can be at purifying water with a pretty challenging test: the filter made water from Sydney Harbour safe to drink in one step.
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Seawater is a complex cocktail of useful minerals, but it’s hard to separate the ones we need. Now a team of scientists from Australia and the US has developed a new water desalination technique that can not only make seawater fresh enough to drink, but recover lithium ions for use in batteries.
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Australian research group CSIRO will be using aquatic drones to explore the Southern Ocean. The government agency has announced a partnership with San Francisco-based Saildrone, and will be utilizing three of the startup's unmanned vehicles for the next five years.
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It's no surprise to hear that many people who consume a typical Western diet don't get enough fiber. They could, of course, change their eating habits, but now they may not have to. Scientists have developed a new type of wheat that has 10 times the amount of fiber as its normal counterpart.
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Lord Howe Island stick insects went extinct on their native island in the 1920s and were apparently rediscovered elsewhere decades later. There were questions about whether the living insects were the same species, but now genetic tests confirm that the stick insects really are back from the dead.
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In an effort to apply energy-harvesting methods to power wearable devices, researchers have also created a new authentication method based on a person’s movements that may one day replace conventional security methods such as passwords or fingerprints.
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Fast radio bursts have scientists puzzled, but the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder radio telescope may help find some answers. New Atlas spoke to Keith Bannister, an astronomer on the project, about what might be behind these strange signals and how the mystery might be unraveled.
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Some see hydrogen as the energy medium of the future, but getting it from the producer to the consumer is one of the biggest problems in creating a hydrogen economy. To help bridge this gap, CSIRO is developing a metallic membrane that helps convert ammonia into high-purity hydrogen.
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Graphene, the new wunderkind for all sorts of emerging technologies, is still a little too expensive to produce on a commercial scale. Now scientists at CSIRO have come up with a way to create graphene from soy beans, cheaply, quickly, and without all the nasty chemicals usually needed.
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