Australasian Science — May-June 2017
W estworld is a new American science fiction show that taps into our hopes and fears about robots. The show imagines a Wild West ...
dancies and underemployment across a range of industries. One policy recommendation has been that there should be a robot tax to ...
A lbert Einstein was never happy with the more bizarre predictions of the quantum theory that he had pioneered. In particular he ...
Specifically, Miciusaims to distribute quantum keys between the satellite and pairs of ground stations in China. The objec- tive ...
(CATQER) reported the first transfer of a quantum key in Australia. In 5 years of subse- quent research CATQER extended its Free ...
H ave you ever looked at one eye in the mirror and shifted your gaze to the other eye, surpris- ingly seeing no movement of your ...
sion flawed, as the only choice participants were free to make was the timing of a single action. Recently another team performe ...
summed by the accumulator. The switch reset the accumulator when necessary. This model seemed to account for perceptual illusion ...
I n pursuit of the goals of the Paris Agreement on climate change, now in force, the 2°C scenario of the Interna- tional Energy ...
travels 10,000 km/year, 33 complete recharges of the battery are required, corresponding to 1.65 MWh of electricity per car per ...
Fuel-Cell Electric Vehicles Another type of electric vehicle is now coming into consider- ation. This is the fuel-cell-powered v ...
investors won’t bankroll the needed infrastructure unless there are vehicles to use it. This affects FCEVs more than BEVs, since ...
I n late September 2016, we learned that Yahoo’s servers had been breached and upwards of 500 million users had bits and pieces ...
people in the sample know their data has been breached does not necessarily imply that the “real” number of people that have bee ...
A lthough whale sharks are acknowledged as the world’s largest fish, there are debates around just how big they can get. Consens ...
First, they swim slowly, moving at speeds of 0.8–1.0 m/s. This is very slow for such a large fish, but it minimises the cost of ...
T wo of the processes most threatening biodiver- sity – the illegal wildlife trade and the intro- duction of alien species – can ...
reptiles becoming established varied across species. The most likely introduced reptiles to become established successfully were ...
38 ||MAY/JUNE 2017 W alking through the bush on a hot summer’s day in south-eastern Australia, you can’t help being aware of the ...
MAY/JUNE 2017 | | 39 fires might have on the long-term viability of frog populations, is currently unknown. In February 2009, th ...
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