No doubt many of you have spent a happy Christmas tearing away layers of wrapping paper to expose some new gadget. But did you stop to spare a thought for the “sticky-back plastic” holding your ...

A small government forensics laboratory in Perth has become a global leader with big dreams after developing a new-tech tool for old-fashioned crime-solving. ChemCentre — based at Curtin University — ...

It was a ground-breaking eureka moment of modern-day science which all came about thanks to a sliver of sticky tape and a simple lump of graphite, a naturally occurring form of carbon. On a quiet ...

Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer and not something on which dermatologists like to take chances. When they see a suspicious-looking mole on the tip of a patient’s nose, they biopsy it and ...

The researchers say the material clings so well to a surface that by covering the palm of one hand with the tape, a person could hang from the ceiling - just like the remarkable lizard. So far, ...

Origami artists can turn paper into all manner of ingenious objects. It’s unlikely, though, that anyone has tried to make a functioning medical lab that way – until now. With the help of some bits of ...