The US sailor who was photographed planting a victory kiss on a woman in New York’s Times Square while celebrating the end of World War II has died at 95.
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The Alice Springs I know has changed so much over the years, growing from a dusty town beside the Todd River to a vibrant modern city writes Dallas Sherringham.
Postcards were the emails of the late 19th and early 20th century. Snippets of holidays, news of war and news of peacetime. In this extract from his recent...
It filled a room and undertook as much computation in its working life as a smartphone could complete in a minute, but CSIRAC was also an Australian first and...
Thirty years ago today, a test by engineers at Chernobyl’s power plant in Russia went horribly wrong, resulting in one of the planet’s worst...