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Violence in schools: bullying and schoolyard fights troubling 12 of South Australia’s most “complex” secondary schools is falling.

Who laid the groundwork for modern technology? Modern inventions like transistors, ICs and wireless communications didn’t come out of thin air; thousands of brilliant scientists and inventors had to discover every aspect of the electronic technology that made them possible over the last few hundred years. by Dr David Maddison

Australian and British viewers of Oppenheimer will benefit from knowing about the role which Mark Oliphant played in the atomic project.

The masterful restoration of the University of Adelaide’s Reading Room, overseen by Swanbury Penglase and Heritage SA, has unearthed a number of surprising hidden elements within the room, none more so than a flight of paper planes more than three decades old.

A small modular reactor in Canada’s Ontario could power 1.2 million homes by the end of the decade. Now it’s trying to convince Australians to try them too.

During the restoration project of the University of Adelaide’s historic Reading Room, considered to be one of the most beautiful libraries in Australia, staff uncovered a flight of paper planes flown by distracted students into the nooks and crannies

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Oppenheimer is a brilliant historical thriller, but it fails to tell the full story - and one Australian’s crucial part in it.

Professor Gareth Williams on why Christopher Nolan's new blockbuster film Oppenheimer perpetuates a myth that the atomic bombs dropped on Japan in August 1945 were all-American inventions. Here he explains the British contribution to the story...

As soon as the bombs were dropped, the men who invented them began searching their consciences.