2+ hour, 17+ min ago  (1054+ words) Parliament's caffeine addicts are dumping 250,000 single-use takeaway cups into landfill every year, prompting the department in charge to step in. Parliamentary services has rolled out an "APH Circular Cup Program", a borrow-and-return system using Australian-made. Launched by Senate President Sue…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (466+ words) While Aristotle might have been a magnificent thinker, science was not his forte. How would he answer the question of whether adding a little cold water to a cup of tea would make it cool more slowly? The logic is…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (516+ words) This content is provided by a third party. The numbers behind this are significant. A survey by the International Workplace Group found nearly 50 per cent of Australian employees work remotely for at least half of the week. In Canberra, where…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (429+ words) The humble morning brew may be on the brink of a revolution, with researchers harnessing ultrasonic sound waves to make cafe-quality coffee similar to espresso. Researchers have created a new brewing process using room-temperature water and soundwaves to create coffee…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (373+ words) The days of a cheap cappuccino, a familiar, affordable morning habit, are a rapidly fading memory, a quaint artefact of an era unlikely to return. Today, Canberrans stepping up to local café counters are being met with an unwelcome, if…...