A study released on Tuesday revealed that elephant seals were instrumental in gathering additional information on ice formation, ocean currents, and climate change. Learn more about this after the jump!

Imagine connection speeds up to 60 times more than what we have today. That'd be a miracle, since we all know that even if the fastest pipelines are laid, there are still the limitations of electronics to deal with. Luckily, Australian scientists have found a way to drop electronics altogether, and make circuits fully photonic. Yes, photonic. The future awaits at the full story.

Ancient tools dating back to 35,000 years ago by the Martidja Banyjima people have been unearthed in a rock shelter in the northwestern part of Australia. These artifacts are considered to be the oldest archaeological finds in that part of the country. To know more about this, head on over to the full article.

Australia's Aurora Australis, a marine science research vessel, recent came back from its trip from Antarctica. Dr. Martin Riddle, leader of the voyage, said that their expedition was able to uncover the rich and complex marine life in the previously unknown environment. Find out what they discovered in the full article.

You've probably heard the myth before saying that goldfish can't remember anything that has transpired just three seconds earlier. Well, that myth has just been busted by a 15-year old student from Australia.

How did the kid do it? What experiments he utilized? You can know all about these in the full article via the "read more" link below.

Believe it or not, a revolutionary form of transportation has been designed to travel twice the speed of Concorde and five times the speed of sound.

At its speed, the A2 aircraft can travel from London to Australia in under five hours while still being able to board 300 passengers. Details of the plane in the full article.

"Roses are red, violets are blue..." or so the old rhyme goes. That may no longer hold true for some Japanese buyers next year, as a company by the name of Suntory Ltd. hopes to sell genetically modified blue roses next year. More on the "rosy" future of these oddly-colored flowers after the jump.

It is really nice to know that current technologies are also being used to save Earth rather than help destroy it. For example, flying robots are being utilized by scientists to save the humpback whales.

This move was actually prompted by Japan's policy of killing whales for research and studies. Australia, now, is trying to determine the exact count of the said animals that migrated in its territory. More on this after the jump!

Whaling is one of the Japanese maritime industry's most celebrated increments. The international community and other environmental groups, however, aren't too happy about it. Greenpeace has been patrolling the Antarctic in pursuit of illegal Nippon vessels, and its ship Esperanza has just completed a 42,000 mile expedition. Esperanza says the fight to protect the large sea mammals is far from over, and you'll know why in the full article.

Here's an intriguing science story with a bit of a twist. It seems that a 15 year-old Australian girl switched blood types as an effect of a liver transplant she received when she was nine. According to the report, the girl "had changed blood types and that her immune system had switched over to that of the donor after stem cells from the new liver migrated to her bone marrow."

More on this amazing development after the jump!