Very small amounts of skin care chemicals can cause major damage to coral.

There are serious hazards in moving so fast, if it proves possible to do so. Colliding with a single atom of iron could knock you off course. Yet it's the only way we'll ever leave our solar system.

Our weekly news round-up: ApplePay battles big Aussie banks; Google Duo video calls take on FaceTime; Science of urinating in pools; Facebook blocks Adblock Plus; Amazon's safer noise-cancelling headphones; NSA wifi interception software traded on dark web; Google's hard lessons with Fiber; Users incensed with Windows 10 anniversary update.

Aussie taxi industry demands compensation, even as US ride sharing interloper trials driverless cars.

Our weekly news round-up: ApplePay battles big Aussie banks; Google Duo video calls take on FaceTime; Science of urinating in pools; Facebook blocks Adblock Plus; Amazon's safer noise-cancelling headphones; NSA wifi interception software traded on dark web; Google's hard lessons with Fiber; Users incensed with Windows 10 anniversary update.

Cost-cutting and poor planning to blame for the worst census ever conducted in Australia. We pick over the bones of a failed plebiscite.

Aussie taxi industry demands compensation, even as US ride sharing interloper trials driverless cars.

The Superbook is an affordable chipless & memoryless laptop to run off your phone.

Spectacular canyons imaged on Mars and Saturn's moon, Titan, and NASA's new heavylift Space Launch System passes critical design review.

Can Australia make any difference to global climate change, unless the rest of the world takes concerted action to curb emissions? More from Melbourne University's Professor David Karoly.