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Believe it or not, I knew exactly what I wanted to do when I was in high school. That’s not all that common in a world of ever-changing, endless possibilities. But I knew I wanted to work in technology.

Sustainable mass-data storage solutions provider Seagate has today announced a new era in storage with its 30TB+ hard drives in traditional 3.5" form factors, but with greater areal density than ever before, but yet lighter and more environmentally sustainable too.

A research team at the University of Sydney is claiming a major breakthrough in generating single photons (light particles), as carriers of quantum information in security systems.

No, there are no shark with frickin’ spiral laser beams creating quantum whirlpools, but ANU physicists have indeed managed to do it, creating ‘polaritons’!

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, a former research scientist in her own right, is to visit the NICTA research centre of excellence while in Australia for the G20 summit.

Physicists at the Australian National University (ANU) have built a tractor beam that can repel and attract objects over a much longer distance than previously achieved.