Spider silk is said to be one of the strongest, toughest materials on the Earth. Now engineers at Washington University in St. Louis have designed amyloid silk hybrid proteins and produced them in engineered bacteria. The resulting fibers are stronger and tougher than...
Universe Today - Report by Nancy Atkinson It’s really happening. The James Webb Space Telescope has successfully reached its orbital destination in space, 1.5 million km (1 million miles) from Earth. A final 5-minute thruster firing on January 24, 2022 put JWST in its...
Valiant Space has been awarded a $200,000 grant as part of the Australian Government’s Moon to Mars initiative, administered through the Australian Space Agency. The Demonstrator Feasibility grant will allow the company to develop Australia’s first in-space chemical...
Total Lunar Eclipse, Brisbane, Australia, May 26, 2021. Photo: Jachin Dahlitz
Dr Jon Lieff, MD, is a neuropsychiatrist with a BA in Mathematics from Yale University and an MD from Harvard Medical School. He pioneered the creation of integrated treatment units that focus on complex patients with combined medical, psychiatric, and neurological...
Leading neuroscientist collaborates with TACC to democratize the field, plan infrastructure People often think about human behavior in terms of what is happening in the present—reading a newspaper, driving a car, or catching a football. But other dimensions of...
Have you ever wondered why you are able to hear a sentence and understand its meaning – given that the same words in a different order would have an entirely different meaning? New research involving neuroimaging and A.I., describes the complex network within the...
Peter Corke: Australian Robotic Vision from Dahlitz Media | Perfekt Studios on Vimeo. This biography of Australian roboticist, distinguished professor Peter Corke, follows the development of robotics through the career of this remarkable pioneer and of his colleagues...
Autism from Dahlitz Media | Perfekt Studios on Vimeo. Episode 2 of The Science of Us documentaries looks at autism. With input from autistic therapists, psychologists, Temple Grandin and Stephen Porges, we learn about the nature and treatment for this condition. For...
The Gut-Brain Axis from Dahlitz Media | Perfekt Studios on Vimeo. Join us as we talk with leading researchers, clinical scientists and health practitioners about the extraordinary world within, and the connections between our gut and our brain. We explore the...
The University of Queensland Contact magazine has done a story on our documentary Toward Singularity. Big thanks to Harriet Dempsey-Jones for the write up and Editor Michael Jones. [button...
FROM THE ARCHIVES Science Fiction vs Science Fact - Replicating Machines by Mark Sackler Self-replicating machines have been a staple in science fiction since the 1940’s. A. E. Van Vogt, Philip K. Dick and Arthur C. Clarke, along with many others, have used...
FROM THE ARCHIVES When a Fervent Debate Meets a Meticulous Experiment Measurement - Will the Sparks Fly? by Nebojsa Karadzic
This article includes content and quotes garnered by the author from interviews with James J. Hughes, Jerome Glenn, Ian Pearson, Richard Yonck, John C. Havens and Alexandra Whittington on the Seeking Delphi™ podcast between April of 2017 and November of 2018. **...
Marck Sackler gives an insight on David Wood & Delta Wisdom recent publication.