Opals
This Ancient Insect Is Preserved Inside an Iridescent Opal
The bug might have been trapped in amber that became “opalized” over millions of years.
Erin Phillips Might Be The Best Crossover Athlete In The World
The WNBA Star returned to Australia during the off-season to dominate the inaugural AFL Women's competition, playing the decisive hand in the Adelaide Crows grand final win.
Can Australia's New-Look Opals Continue Their Olympic Medal Run?
Like the cabinet in the dining room you weren't allowed to play in as a kid, the Opals pack serious silverware. But with seven Olympic debutants, can vets like Laura Hodges and Liz Cambage repeat in Rio?
Haunting, Desolate Photos of an Australian Mining Town
Abigail Varney's series explores a sense of space and desolation.
The OPALS Experiment Is Proving the Concept of a Space-Laser Internet
We're still a ways off from having porn beamed into our laptops from orbit, but at least it's technically possible.
The OPALS Experiment Beamed Its First Laser-Based Message from Space
Laser transmission of data likely won't replace radio waves on Earth, but for deep-space communication it could be key.
NASA Lasered the Mona Lisa to the Moon
In the near future, laser communications will probably serve as a backup method to tried and true radio communications.
High Speed Space Communications Are a Laser Blast Away
OPALS: Bringing you high speed communications in space in 2013