If we wait until we perfect wave energy or nuclear fusion, or some other source of power, we’re going to miss the bus,” he said, echoing remarks by the head of the biggest electricity utility ...

Oceanography professor and former CSIRO chief Tony Haymet has been named new Australian chief scientist, to provide independent advice and research to the federal government.

In 1938, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain said of Adolf Hitler in April 1940 that the German Führer had “missed the bus” by delaying his start to the war. “Whatever reason Hitler had for ...