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On this day: Sydney gets electricity
On 8 July 1904 Sydney’s power supply was switched on for the first time.
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History & Culture
Sydney in the early 1900s
A newsreel shot from a tram as it travels up George Street, Sydney, in 1906 depicts a city humming with promise.
News
Aussies use 3-D printing to make hip joints
Australian researchers have used world-first technology to 3-D print titanium products including a hip implant.
News
Butterfly inspires nanodevice
Butterfly wings have inspired the design of a tiny crystal that could make telecommunications faster.
News
New worm discovered by citizen scientists
A new species of flatworm has been discovered in WA by amateurs using a social networking website.
News
Murchison telescope goes live in outback WA
A powerful new telescope aims to detect solar storms and offer glimpses into the early universe.
Science & Environment
App helps separate frogs from cane toads
A new app aims to protect native frogs being mistaken for cane toads and killed at the hands of the public.
News
GALLERY: World’s tiniest flowers bloom in the lab
Chemists have manipulated the growth of crystals to build beautiful nanoflowers that are impossibly small.
News
Google Earth fuelling ‘armchair archaeology’
A new breed of archaeologists is using satellite imagery to unearth clues about past civilisations.