A whole new class of biosensor that can detect exceptionally small traces of contaminants in liquids in just 40 minutes has been developed by a UNSW-led team of researchers.

Disease detectives at their best! Scientists have developed an ultra-sensitive test that should enable them to detect signs of a disease in its earliest stages.

Scientists have developed an ultra-sensitive test that should enable them to detect signs of a disease in its earliest stages.

Researchers announced on Friday that they had essentially trapped a rainbow, assembling an array consisting of over 25,000 miniature invisibility cloaks to slow light to a near halt.

Many people anticipating the creation of an invisibility cloak might be surprised to learn that a group of American researchers has created 25 000 individual cloaks.