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Liquid lenses for better satellite monitoring
24
JUL
Liquid lenses for better satellite monitoring

In an exciting first, HIAF has helped test innovative liquid lenses that enable a satellite to take a selfie. The Heavy Ion Accelerator Facility’s Space Irradiation Beamline (HIAF-SIBL) played a vital role in the project, which was the first time that Australian space radiation testing has been done on an Australian space payload.  Cameras on satellites, including CubeSats, are nothing new. They're typically...

In an exciting first, HIAF has helped test innovative liquid lenses that enable a satellite to take a selfie. The Heavy Ion Accelerator Facility’s...

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ANU physicists are using lasers to give the Sydney Harbour Bridge a makeover
11
JUL
ANU physicists are using lasers to give the Sydney Harbour Bridge a makeover

by Rebeka Selmeczki If you’ve ever walked into a shop selling Australian merchandise, you will have noticed one of the nation’s...

Optical counterparts of diodes could spur new area of technology
10
JUL
Optical counterparts of diodes could spur new area of technology

The inventors of nano-isolators – the optical equivalent of a diode – say the device could start a technology revolution. In the 1950s,...

Mysterious sixth-order transition hints at enigmatic nuclear process
05
JUL
Mysterious sixth-order transition hints at enigmatic nuclear process

Physicists have seen the only known example of a sixth-order electromagnetic decay process in nature, emitted as a gamma ray from an excited...

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