Researchers at the Arizona State University (ASU) have been awarded a two year US$5.1 million grant by the USA government to develop a radically improved battery..

A father and son team have completed an arduous 3000km journey across Australia on an ex-'postie' motorcycle, all for the sake of proving that the impossible can be done with expensive Polish alcohol

Internode managing director Simon Hackett has driven his Tesla Roadster into the record books, completing 501km on a single electric charge in the 2009 Global Green Challenge

Simon Hackett's electric Tesla Roadster is making the most of its rapid recharge facility in Australia's Eco Challenge; as other challengers show off their fuel efficiency in the 3000km race.

One of the universe's greatest secrets may soon have its picture taken, thanks to the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), which can record 3,200 megapixel images

The 3000km race outback race from Darwin to Adelaide will feature a number of green vehicles, but none as high profile as Internode CEO Simon Hackett's Tesla all-electric machine

Memory chips based on multiferroics could theoretically offer static memory that doesn't require constant refreshing, holds data over loss of power and is fast to both write and read... the holy grail of computer memory

Apple's latest update brings a beefier iMac lineup with better-than-HD screens and tasty new peripherals

Eight new processors aimed at the low end of the market

The G.hn standard for wired home networking via power cables has passed another milestone, after gaining approval from the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) standards body.

Warning messages about piracy could soon start appearing in peer-to-peer (P2P) applications if the US government agrees to new legislation..

Dell has introduced several new business systems, including a novel Latitude laptop with wireless docking and charging.

Chip giant Intel has taken the wraps off its latest mobile processor based on its Nehalem architecture..

The announcement of a pair of 2GHz dual-core processors from ARM has drawn speculation over a new chip war with Intel in the netbook space, despite the fact that products based on the chips are not likely to appear for at least another year.

Though neither company is willing to declare that the effort will make competitors such as AMD and Apple obsolete

Big Blue boffins have come up with a way of taking snaps of the chemical structure of an individual molecule

The world's data centres are producing more carbon emissions than countries and must be more efficient warned Samsung at a press conference today..

Boffins engaged in fusion energy research are creating extremely thin plasma beams that could be useful for nanolithography to make future computer chips.

A nanotechnology design breakthrough could make faster, cheaper processors through the use of DNA structures.

Via Technologies has introduced a new x86 board design which is capable of operating in extreme temperatures..