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Using gravitational wave technology to improve autonomous vehicles
02
OCT
Using gravitational wave technology to improve autonomous vehicles

Forge Photonics, a start up company using gravitational wave detection technology has launched, setting its sights on the $A120 billion global market for autonomous vehicle navigation systems. The company aims to dramatically reduce the cost of navigation systems for a range of markets including self-driving cars, marine vehicles and defence.  “Our work involves translating expert techniques for detecting...

Forge Photonics, a start up company using gravitational wave detection technology has launched, setting its sights on the $A120 billion global...

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Imagine a laser toothbrush: scientists create array of nanowire lasers
30
SEP
Imagine a laser toothbrush: scientists create array of nanowire lasers

Scientists have created lasers from perfect crystals one hundredth of the diameter of a human hair. Like the fibres of a toothbrush, the team...

Making new metamaterials with quantum dot Lego
26
SEP
Making new metamaterials with quantum dot Lego

Scientists have created materials with surprising optical properties, from arrays of lego-like cubes, made of caesium lead tri-bromide. Caesium...

Forget everything you know about time – part of it could be all in your mind
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SEP
Forget everything you know about time – part of it could be all in your mind

Society says time is money; but ANU physicist Peter Riggs says aspects of time might not even be real at all. Article by: Elaine Obran,...

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