ITP Australia has received funding from ARENA to conduct independent testing of the performance of six major lithium-ion battery brands, an 'advanced' lead-acid battery and a conventional lead-acid battery. [ + ]

Tenrod has signed a deal to distribute Iskra's range of capacitors in Australia and New Zealand. [ + ]

An NUP/UPNA-Public University of Navarre researcher has developed a solution that allows a basic electronics lab to be transformed into a low-cost, advanced telecommunications one. [ + ]

Canberra start-up Reposit Power has locked in a contract that will see Tesla batteries sold with Reposit's technology installed in them. [ + ]

Last week, 190 scientists from 39 nations submitted an appeal to the United Nations, UN member states and the World Health Organization (WHO) requesting they adopt more protective exposure guidelines for electromagnetic fields (EMF) and wireless technology in the face of increasing evidence of risk. [ + ]

Scientists from the University of Manchester, together with BGT Materials Limited, a graphene manufacturer in the United Kingdom, have printed a radiofrequency antenna using compressed graphene ink. [ + ]

A new programming approach developed by MIT engineers gives robots more 'cognitive' capabilities, enabling humans to specify high-level goals, while a robot performs high-level decision-making to figure out how to achieve these goals. [ + ]

The federal government has announced $193 million for the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), enabling expansion of its critical nuclear medicine production program and cutting-edge environmental, health and industrial research. [ + ]

RMIT University researchers have mimicked the way the human brain processes information with the development of an electronic long-term memory cell. [ + ]

Salary growth across most industries slowed in 2015 but the electronics and IT industry recorded the highest salary growth, according to the AIM 2015 National Salary Survey. [ + ]

Researchers at the University of Rochester have shown that defects on an atomically thin semiconductor can produce light-emitting quantum dots. [ + ]

A team of researchers at Georgia Tech Research Institute and Honeywell International have developed new chip architecture that may provide foundation for quantum computer. [ + ]

Researchers from the Universitat Politècnica de València and the University of Stuttgart have developed two tiny Qwerty soft keyboard prototypes that enable users to answer or enter text on their wearable devices. [ + ]

MathWorks has introduced Robotics System Toolbox, which provides an interface and complete integration between MATLAB and Simulink, and the Robot Operating System (ROS). [ + ]

The Australian Government, the WA government and six WA institutions have signed an agreement worth $1.5 million to deliver programs over four years under the national Inspiring Australia program that showcases science. [ + ]