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The New Wireless: How Aussies Invented Wi-Fi To Connect Us All
In the world we live in today, Wi-Fi is ubiquitous. It’s in every smartphone, tablet, and laptop, and you’ll find Wi-Fi signals broadcast everywhere — throughout your house, your office, the local shopping centre, fast food store and cafe. It wasn’t always that way. 20 years ago, connecting a computer network wirelessly simply wasn’t practical…
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Australia’s Climate Is Getting Worse Says New CSIRO, Bureau Of Meteorology Report
As if we needed any further confirmation of what’s already going on around us: Australia’s mean temperature has gone up, the weather extremes are getting worse, and so is the deadly annual fire season, according to a new joint report authored by CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology scientists. It makes for some troubling reading.
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Australia Hates Science: CSIRO Staffers Axed In New Government Cuts
The Abbott government is planning on carving 12,000 jobs out of the Australian Public Service, and unfortunately that means around 1400 CSIRO staffers are facing the chop, in what appears to be an ongoing crusade against science in Australia.
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Ten Reasons Why Australia Urgently Needs A Space Agency
There is a hole in the Australian public administration where a space agency should be. That was the clear lesson from the Australian Space Research Program (ASRP) project delivered at the end of June this year.