Last Top Stories: Apple's new-found love for business apps boosts Townsville start-up SafetyCulture

Apple's new-found love for business apps boosts Townsville start-up SafetyCulture

Last week SafetyCulture founder Luke Anear got the kind of surprise every tech start-up dreams about. Apple told the Townsville-based entrepreneur they would be promoting SafetyCulture's flagship app iAuditor, a business tool used for quality control ... >> view original

Townsville author publishes urban fantasy Perigord

Perigord 1 A former Australian Army soldier has turned his talent to writing, publishing his first fantasy novel. Marc Lindsay served with the ADF in Rwanda and East Timor, before becoming a defence physical trainer, and now works in security. Marc has ... >> view original

Prehistoric walking 'Batman' discovered

A PREHISTORIC mammal dubbed “Batman” that roamed the earth 16 million years ago has been discovered in New Zealand. Researchers found the fossilised remains of the bat species which is three times as large as an average modern bat and walked on ... >> view original

IIT: graphene nanoribbons produced by a novel method

For the first time, researchers have been successful in bringing about spontaneous chemical reactions between two different varieties of carbon nanotubes without using any chemicals. In fact, a simple mechanical grinding of the carbon nanotubes with a ... >> view original

Giant Lake Mungo was 20 per cent bigger than we thought, say researchers

The Aboriginal people who called the arid area around Lake Mungo home some 24,000 years ago were likely accomplished inland seafarers living in what is now desert country. Results of an international study has revealed that the iconic Lake Mungo, 90 ... >> view original

Printing Color Images Without Ink

A new technology creates colorful images by manipulating light rather than applying ink. The technology, developed by researchers at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, relies on engineered materials known as metamaterials and was used ... >> view original

Pink octopus so cute it may be named `adorabilis`

Washington: Some say she looks like a ghost from the Pac-Man video game, but she`s anything but spooky. In fact, the fist-sized pink octopus is so cute scientists may call her "Opisthoteuthis Adorabilis." Researchers in California are looking for an appropriate ... >> view original

Rock climber ascends giant redwood tree

The Humboldt-Del Norte Film Commission worked with Red Bull for over 6 months for this project. It is projected that the three day shoot resulted in approximately $10,000 in direct dollars spent on the production in Humboldt County. Red Bull features Chris ... >> view original

Human activity increases disease levels in the Great Barrier Reef's fish, new ...

Fish in the Great Barrier Reef are suffering from an increased rate of disease due to sediment thrown up by human activity, an Australian university study has found. Researchers from James Cook University in Queensland have discovered that sediment ... >> view original

World first: Scientists film death of white blood cell

White blood cells are the foot soldiers of the body's immune system, playing a key role in fending off infections and disease. Little was known about what happens to the cells when they reach the end of their life cycles, until now. Using a technique known as ... >> view original