Fresh Science

Complex problems such as climate change, terrorism, and poverty do not respond to simple solutions. Now, a researcher from the University of South Australia has created a tool to help communities and governments better address some of the world’s toughest challenges. “Wicked problems don’t have clean cause and effect solutions,” says Sharon Zivkovic, the researcher…

Mobile phones, air traffic control, smart grids, and online gaming are all critically dependent on accurate timing across the internet. That’s why it’s so important that University of Melbourne electronic engineer Julien Ridoux and his colleagues have developed a completely new, free, software clock accurate to within a millionth of a second.

The bane of all wedding videos-that picture of the bride in front of the window where her face so dark that you can’t see the features-may soon be a thing of the past.

The accuracy of Australia’s defence surveillance radar is being improved through the use of a new low cost technique that uses meteor showers. Meteor showers naturally occur in the earth’s atmosphere on a continuous basis, day and night, as space rocks hit the circle of atmosphere protecting the earth’s surface.