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By Xiangyuanchai Guo, The Australian National University  Suppose you are a very smart student like me (just joking), so that you never fail any exam just like me (joking again).  Suppose I am [...]

By Luke Ginn, Queensland University of Technology  Batteries are becoming increasingly important in today’s society, with the latest release of Tesla’s Powerwall (house battery) and Tesla’s ever [...]

By John McCarthy, The University of Adelaide In late 1915, Albert Einstein published his first paper on the subject of General Relativity. In it, he described a picture of our universe as a [...]

By Padraic Gidney, The University of Sydney For my summer project, I investigated the behaviour of a particular kind of solution – what’s called a periodic wave train solution – [...]

By Russell Edson, The University of Adelaide  When cartilage is damaged – by injury, genetic disorders, or diseases like Osteoarthritis – the results can be physically debilitating. Currently the [...]

By Penelope Drastik, University of Wollongong What is the square root of -1? Most people would say that it doesn’t exist. Since the product of two positive numbers is positive, and the product of [...]

The Cambridge professor thanked Dikran Tahta, who taught him at St Albans School in the 1950s, as he celebrated the role teachers can play in the lives of their pupils. “At St Albans [...]