Scientists from the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation and Pacific Power, Australia, have produced a synthesis of carbon monoxide and hydrogen by combining methane,

Portable power sawmills with small engines have been developed by an Australian company. The sawmill, weighing 325 kg, takes only five minutes to reset and can be dismantled into five pieces and

A NATIONAL network of environmental lawyers, which recently became operational in Australia, will help the ordinary Australian citizen in bringing his environmental complaints to the court

Australian researchers have devised a novel method to deal with caterpillars that create havoc in their cotton fields. They have developed a variety of cotton that kills the caterpillars (New

EVEN the malevolent AIDS virus has its Achilles heel. Australian scientific circles are abuzz with the discovery of a rare strain of the virus among a small group of people in Australia who not

Scientists at the Australia-based Queensland Institute of Medical Research have given the green light to the establishment of "DNA Vaccines" as the obvious choice of the future (Biotechnology,

Making pistons smaller and more numerous increases an internal combustion engine's efficiency

Good news for fat-conscious people. Researchers at the University of New South Wales in Australia have developed a fast and inexpensive technology -- the supercritical fluid technology -- for

Aboriginal communities in Australia are elated over a new ruling by the Australian High Court: on March 16, the Court declared the federal government's Native Title Act, passed in late 1993, valid.

The magnificent Great Barrier Reef in Australia has again been in news: it has been reduced to a mere shadow of its former self. A recent comparison of contemporary photographs with pictures taken in

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