A better ion drive for more efficient travel - Cosmos In 2014 a team at the École Polytechnique demonstrated proof-of-concept for a reconfigured gridded-ion thruster that would produce equal amounts of positive and negative ions without loss of
Take a virtual tour through the super ship RV Investigator Called the RV Investigator, the Australian CSIRO Marine National Facility’s research vessel launched in 2014 is the only purpose-built ship in Australia that allows researchers to explore our
Four tools for the future of energy - Cosmos It made its debut at the November 2014 Los Angeles Auto Show and, last year, landed in Australia for a three-year trial So what’s under the hood?
Computers cheat the Turing test by staying silent - Cosmos Check out this conversation from 2014, when the chat bot Cleverbot stopped working: [10:58:08] Judge: good day [10:58:08] Cleverbot: [10:58:46] Judge: is no response an answer [10:58:46]
Dude wheres my flying car? - Cosmos We were supposed to have flying cars by now All the science fiction writers promised them So where are they? RiAus investigates
Magnetising the non-magnetic, in 2D - Cosmos Future low-energy transistors could be made with ultra-thin layers of platinum, after scientists in the Netherlands found a way to use an electrical voltage to switch on magnetic properties in the