Apple's iPhone sales slump while China's Huawei gains

Apple’s biggest cash cow, the iPhone, continued to suffer weaker sales around the world in first…

Experts develop nanolasers on silicon

Researchers at Cardiff University have shown tiny light-emitting nanolasers less than a tenth of the size…

A leap into the continuum

Computing the dynamics of many interacting quantum particles accurately is a daunting task. There is however…

A wind tunnel designed to simulate the dusty surface of Mars

Part of Aarhus University’s Mars Simulation Laboratory in Denmark, this wind tunnel has been specially designed…

Record-breaking chaotic data transmission

Engineers in China have used a chaos-based system to pipe data securely through a fibre-optic at…

Photometric observations detect 28 new variable stars in NGC 4147

Using the Devasthal optical telescope in India, astronomers have conducted photometric observations of the globular cluster…

Is China's social credit system coming to Australia?

Privacy was not a hot topic in the recent Australian election, but it should have been.…

Are Elon Musk and SpaceX about to ruin our view of the night sky?

Already, the first 60 of SpaceX’s planned 12,000 internet-delivery satellites have appeared as a decidedly unnatural…

Freak mud flows threaten our water supplies, and climate change is raising the risk

Slurries of mud increasingly threaten the water we drink. This rush of sediment, known as “debris…

Fraud probe targets top Porsche bosses: report

Three top executives at Volkswagen subsidiary Porsche including chief Oliver Blume are under investigation over alleged…