By Wilson da SilvaTHERE’S A WAR on in cyberspace. Every day, hundreds of attacks are mounted against computers and networks across Australia, with hackers searching for vulnerabilities, trying to access restricted systems, steal data or corrupt…

FEATURE | AI stands at the front line of the cyber war

By Wilson da SilvaEVEN WARFARE is going quantum: around the country, researchers have started plying the subatomic realm for a range of possible defence applications that might well help Australia capture, or at least maintain, regional superiority…

FEATURE | Warfare gets the quantum edge

Stuart Wenham, UNSW solar cell researcher. Born July 15, 1957. Died December 23, aged 60.By Wilson da SilvaTwo days before Christmas, Professor Stuart Wenham — a pioneering Australian researcher and inventor who revolutionised solar cell technologies…

OBITUARY | Tributes for UNSW researcher who revolutionised solar cell technology

By Wilson da SilvaIn an energy-hungry world, battery&nbsp;storage is the way of the future. But&nbsp;not all technologies are equal.IT’S BEEN the missing link&nbsp;in the world’s electricity system for more than a century, and now energy storage is…

MAGAZINE | Power up

By Wilson da SilvaDon’t panic about machines getting smarter and behaving more like us&nbsp;– we’re going to need them.RATHER THAN&nbsp;be worried robots will take our jobs in the next 20 years, we should be more afraid there won’t be enough robots.…

MAGAZINE | March of the robots

2026 A VISION FOR THE NATION’S FUTURE: PART 8 TRANSPORTMove over space heroes, here come the paying passengers.&nbsp;WILSON da SILVA reports.ONE DAY, you will board a flight from Sydney to London, and the trip will last just three hours. It will take…

MAGAZINE | Prepare for take-off 

THE WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN MAGAZINE In the new space race, respected scientists are rushing to join the search for life on other planets.By&nbsp;Wilson da SilvaSUDDENLY,&nbsp;life out there is in. Astrobiology used to be called “searching for aliens” and…

MAGAZINE | The Real Men in Black

By Wilson da Silva&nbsp;THE building blocks of life are increasingly believed to have come from deep space after hitching a ride on the comets that bombarded the earth 4.6 billion years ago.Scientists at an international astrobiology conference have…

PAGE 1 | Now it comes to light, we’re all extraterrestrials

By Wilson da SilvaAUSTRALIAN astronomers have discovered a planet so small and far away that it cannot be seen.The presence of HD 76700b, named after the catalogue identification of its parent star, was inferred by the slight wobble it produces in…

NEWS | Tiny planet is a huge discovery

THE WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN MAGAZINEBryan Gaensler, 1999 Young Australian of the Year and now astronomy’s shining star, was apolitical until the asylum seekers issue inspired him to mobilise fellow expatriates to protest.By Wilson da SilvaIT’S HARD not to…

MAGAZINE | Austro Boy

THE WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN MAGAZINEBy Wilson da SilvaIt began with a hurried flight on a small, chartered twin-engine Cessna from Dili to Darwin on December 4, 1975. It ended with another flight, this time on a white United Nations Hercules that left…

MAGAZINE | Return of the Exile

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