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 — ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When 3M began in 1902, they made sandpaper. Soon the sandpaper company invented a line of products that changed household life around the world. 3M’s Scotch brand masking tape and cellophane tape were ...