Travelling 20km across Sydney by train can sometimes take up to two hours. That's an average trip speed of 10km per hour. That is bullshit. China has launched a Super Rapid Test train that is capable of travelling at 500km per hour.

Did Contagion freak you out? Good. It's real.

Kepler 22b – okay, it's not the catchiest name, but NASA scientists are calling its discovery in 2011 "a major milestone on the road to finding Earth's twin".

The US Army has just come up with a way to increase the life expectancy of a sandwich 2000-fold.

We're not supposed to talk about it yet, but everyone's talking about it: the 'God Particle' (Higgs boson) has finally (probably) been discovered! 

Replace the low-grade, poorly foiled chocolates of youth with high resolution images taken by the Hubble Telescope.

Philosopher, artist, madman, genius - what's in a name anyway? Joe Davis is a man who thinks big, talks fast, and initiates some unusual projects combining science and philosophy to question reality, religion, and human nature.

While most of us were blissfully unaware of the existence of the Parkes radio telescope until the release of that 2000 film, The Dish, this venerable 64m wide metallic hemisphere has been purring along at the forefront of Australian astronomy for exactly half a century.