Entries for the 2015 Australian Museum Eureka Prizes close 7pm AEST Friday 1 May 2015.

If there’s such a thing as a South American superpower, Brazil would have to be it.

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It was the handwritten note that finally brought it all home.

While the debate about the future of Australia’s shipbuilding industry goes on, the major players are in the midst of a bid for the potential $2 billion opportunity that is already on the table.

Babcock International Group has renewed a $NZ300 million agreement with the Government of NZ which will see the company deliver through life engineering support services across the NZ naval fleet for the next seven years.

A University of South Australia research project using advanced 3D body scanning could help the Royal Australian Navy optimise working environments on ships and better design uniforms and specialist clothing.

A University of Sydney researcher has designed and successfully tested a method for autonomously docking drones for refuelling or recharging, in mid-air.

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In September last year, then Defence Minister David Johnston commissioned the RAND Corporation to look into the Australian shipbuilding industry

In her From the Source interview for the May edition of ADM, Boeing president of Australia and the South Pacific Maureen Dougherty confirmed that the company will not be taking part in the Land 400 competition as it currently stands.

Operation Okra is the Australian Defence Force's contribution to the international effort to combat the ISIL terrorist threat in Iraq.

An Australian designed 60-metre Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV) is generating interest from Asia-Pacific nations, after proving itself in its first three years of service with the Iraqi Navy.

Australian commercial pilot and inventor Rowan Watkins isn’t the first to envisage an aircraft with a wing that rotates like a helicopter rotor for vertical landing and take-off, and locks to become a fixed wing for faster forward flight.

Research on the Italian defence industry is an exercise in historic names, and a lesson in how a nation can support an industry capable of making just about anything the military may need.

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